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Two French aid workers kidnapped in the Central African Republic
Two French aid workers from the NGO Triangle were kidnapped overnight from Sunday to Monday in the north-east of the Central African Republic, Mahamat Salah Amadou Birao, Bangui's vice-consul in Darfur, Sudan told AFP.
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adoption - France - homosexuality - marriage
Gay weddings and adoption in France
Marc Perelman interviews Caroline Mecary (Copernic Foundation); Franck Margain (Christian Democratic Party); Amanda Ortiz (Spanish Socialist Worker's Party in Paris); and Gilles Vellus (Têtu Magazine).
adoption - homosexuality - law
Should Gay Adoption be Legalised?
Yesterday an administrative court in Eastern France made history by allowing a homosexual couple to adopt a child.
FRANCE
Court grants homosexual woman the right to adopt a child
A court in the eastern French city of Besançon has ordered local authorities to grant a school teacher and her partner adoption rights, ending an 11-year legal battle that has divided the country.
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ISRAEL
Police arrest settler accused of murdering Palestinians
Israeli police say they have arrested a West Bank settler suspected of having carried out hate attacks against Palestinians, missionaries and gays.
USA
Obama signs military budget bill and hate crimes measure
US President Barack Obama has signed a 680-billion-dollar defence spending bill that also contains an attached measure expanding the definition of federal hate crimes to those committed because of sexual orientation.
homosexuality - Internet - Islamism - Somalia - Uganda
Somalia islamists militants are also active on the Internet
In this edition, web users are looking at how Somali islamists are using internet, and are commenting an anti-gay law that Uganda has just passed.
Barack Obama - homosexuality - military - Nobel Prize - Tax havens
Crisis in the Cayman Islands
The week in the Americas focuses on the Cayman Islands, a little tax haven suffering from the crisis, explains the debates about homosexuality in the US army and shows how the world reacted the the Obama's peace Nobel Prize.
USA
Gay activists demand equal rights at Washington march
A day after US President Barack Obama vowed to repeal a ban on gays serving openly in the US military, tens of thousands of gay activists marched on Washington Sunday to pressure Obama and Democrats to follow through on their promise.
USA
Obama vows to end ban on gays in military
President Barack Obama, speaking on the eve of a major gay-rights march, told gay supporters on Saturday he would fight for their causes and renewed a pledge to end restrictions on their service in the U.S. military.
FRANCE
Mitterrand threatens legal action to clear his name
Frédéric Mitterrand, the French culture minister facing pressure to resign over a book in which he describes paying for "boys" in Thailand, has threatened to take legal action over what he describes as a "campaign of insensitive calumny".
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