Japan kills 333 whales – including more than 200 pregnant females – in latest Antarctic haul as it continues to reject international orders to stop hunting

Japan slaughtered more than 300 whales, including 200 pregnant females

Were killed in the country's latest whaling mission in the Southern Ocean

Japan's actions come despite a 2014 UN legal decision that said so-called scientific whaling activity was a front for commercial hunts

Tokyo claims it is trying to prove the whale population is large enough to sustain a return to commercial hunting.

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