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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> France became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage on Saturday after President Francois Hollande signed it into law following months of bitter political debate. Hollande acted a day after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition, which had been the last obstacle to passing the bill into law. The legislation also legalises gay adoption. French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, who steered the legislation through parliament, has said the first gay marriages could be celebrated as early as June. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Almost two-thirds of Europe’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are still afraid to show their sexuality in public and most feel discriminated against, an EU report said on Friday, the International Day Against Homophobia. “Fear, isolation and discrimination are everyday phenomena for the LGBT community in Europe,” the director of the European Union’s Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Morten Kjaerum, wrote in the report. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ASHLEY PARKER, on May 17th, 2013 A House bipartisan group working on legislation to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws reached a deal in principle Thursday evening, aides said. The group plans to introduce its bill in June.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 
The HS2 rail project has an estimated £3.3bn funding gap and the benefits for the economy are “unclear”, the National Audit Office says.
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was leading in the vote-count for mayor of Manila on Tuesday in what could be his first elected post since he was ousted in a 2001 revolt on corruption charges. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> While the transsexual identified only as W can look forward at last to a “magical” wedding to her boyfriend, she says much more needs to be done to protect sexual minorities in Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron moved to end a revolt over European Union membership in his ruling Conservative party on Monday, saying all his ministers backed his strategy on the issue despite two expressing more sceptical views than his own. Cameron, who heads a two-party coalition, has promised to try to renegotiate Britain’s membership of the EU if he wins an election in 2015 and then call a referendum to decide whether his country remains a member of the bloc. He cannot act now because his junior coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, oppose such a move. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 
The prime minister arrives in Washington for talks with US President Obama as a debate rages within his party about the UK’s EU membership.
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Philippines held elections on Monday seen as crucial for President Benigno Aquino’s bold reform agenda, as deadly violence and graft-tainted candidates underlined the nation’s deep-rooted problems. Aquino has called for the mid-term polls, in which thousands of local leaders plus national legislators will be elected, to be a referendum on his efforts to transform a corrupt political system and an underperforming economy. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Jacques Chirac once stormed out of an EU summit because a French business leader was speaking it, Nicolas Sarkozy lamented his lack of it and Francois Hollande makes small talk in it but is conscious of his accent. The global spread of the English language has long been a sore point in Paris politics. Now a new battleground has appeared in the linguistic war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The call for a total ban on selling shark fins in the city is mounting following the setting up of a petition by a global civic organisation directed at Environment Secretary Wong Kam-sing. The online campaign, entitled “Hong Kong government: Legislate a ban on the sale and possession of shark fin in Hong Kong”, was created on community petition site Avaaz yesterday. It aims to collect 100,000 signatures. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A video of a bear attacking a monkey after the two fell off their bicycles at a Chinese zoo has sparked outrage among animal rights activists, but an official on Friday defended the show. A minute-and-a-half long video surfaced this week showing the bear biting and clawing the monkey after a mock race at the Shanghai Wild Animal Park. Keepers then pull and beat the bear with wooden sticks, prompting it to eventually release the monkey. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ASHLEY PARKER, on May 10th, 2013 The Senate Judiciary Committee began looking into amendments intended to reshape legislation to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws.
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By By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, on May 8th, 2013 New legislation is offered in Congress to prevent and better prosecute attacks, which the have been on the rise.
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By By ASHLEY PARKER, on May 8th, 2013 Senator Marco Rubio disputed a Heritage Foundation analysis released Monday that found the legislation offering a pathway to citizenship would produce a “lifetime fiscal deficit” of at least $6.3 trillion.
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain would enjoy a significant economic boost if it left the European Union, former finance minister Nigel Lawson said in an article on Tuesday which will fuel the debate about a referendum on British membership. Writing in the Times, Nigel Lawson insisted that “the case for exit” was now clear and urged Britain to sever its 40-year association with Brussels. “In my judgement the economic gains would substantially outweigh the costs,” wrote Lawson, who was Margaret Thatcher’s longest serving Chancellor of the Exchequer. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By DOUGLAS DALBY, on May 1st, 2013 The Irish government has proposed legislation to allow abortion in cases where a threat exists to a woman’s life, including from suicide.
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Truck drivers, domestic helpers, striking dockers – they came from different walks of life, but the thousands of people who joined yesterday’s two Labour Day marches were united in their demand for better working conditions. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, on May 1st, 2013 The road to a consensus on immigration could be far bumpier than the narrative on Capitol Hill suggests.
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pinned her government’s re-election hopes on a new welfare scheme for the disabled, proposing on Tuesday a new tax to better fund care for Australians with severe physical and mental disabilities. The tax would not be paid until July 1, next year. Gillard said legislation to create the tax would not be considered by Parliament before general elections on September 14. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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France legalises same-sex marriage
<!– google_ad_section_start –> France became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage on Saturday after President Francois Hollande signed it into law following months of bitter political debate. Hollande acted a day after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition, which had been the last obstacle to passing the bill into law. The legislation also legalises gay adoption. French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, who steered the legislation through parliament, has said the first gay marriages could be celebrated as early as June. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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