Greenpeace boards ship 'carrying toxic waste to India'

Two Greenpeace activists boarded a decommissioned French warship today to protest at its departure for India for dismantling, saying it carried hundreds of tons of toxic waste.

The activists chased down the carrier Clemenceau in the southern Mediterranean, near the entrance to the Suez Canal, and climbed the ship’s mast, Greenpeace’s France office said in a statement.