Anti-whalers to deny Japan request ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) - Japan said Wednesday it will work to remove some whales from the international endangered species list, a change it hopes would pave the way for the resumption of commercial whaling. The U.S. and other anti-whaling countries responded by passing a resolution at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Grenada warning the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, not to act on Japan's anticipated request. The resolution passed 21-10. China, Denmark and South Korea abstained. Saying yes to Japan would allow countries to trade in whale meat, said Scott Smullen, a spokesman for the U.S. delegation. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559697064-a00> Md. boy charged with assault in bra snapping SALISBURY, Md. (AP) - A 10-year-old boy has been charged with assault for allegedly snapping girls' bras. The Pittsville Elementary pupil, who was not identified, was accused of assaulting five girls, ages 8 to 11, earlier this month. He was suspended from school for three days and from a county-run, after-school program. The boy was charged with four counts of assault for allegedly snapping girls' bras and one count of sex offense for allegedly touching a girl's buttocks. ### White Sands' horses leave for S.D. WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. (AP) - With the thunder of hooves, among the last of the White Sands wild horses clamored into aluminum trailers Thursday, bound for South Dakota. The trip ends a saga of a herd once numbering 1,800 horses that had roamed free long before the ranchland became an Army weapons range in the 1940s. "I'm really happy to do this so the horses have a home," said rancher Alan Amiotte, who is taking the horses to his ranch of 10,000 acres outside Rapid City. Ever since 122 horses died during a drought five years ago in southern New Mexico, the military and an animal protection group have been trying to find the horses new homes. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559706889-c89> Japan opposes whaling limits ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) - New Zealand, Australia and Brazil pushed a controversial plan Thursday to make nearly half the world off-limits should commercial whaling resume. Opposed bitterly by Japan, which hopes to lift a 13-year ban on commercial whaling, the proposal would create new sanctuaries in the South Pacific and South Atlantic, adding to existing sanctuaries in the Indian Ocean and other Atlantic waters. Japan walked out briefly in protest Thursday from the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission when Switzerland called for the commission to regulate the killing of smaller animals related to whales, such as the Dall's porpoises hunted by Japan and pilot whales hunted by St. Vincent and the Grenadines. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559706127-de2>
