(AFP)- French President Francois Hollande will sign a gay marriage and adoption bill into law Saturday, after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition.
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(CSM) – After decades of population loss to cities, rural areas in Spain – and across Europe – have been gaining allure as havens from the ongoing recession. Reuters, By Balazs Koranyi & Robert Robertson, April 28 Reykjavik – Fatigued by years of austerity and swayed by promises of debt relief, Icelandic voters dumped the Social Democrats from power on Saturday, returning a center-right government that ruled over its stunning financial collapse just five years ago. Once a European financial hub, this windswept [...] Eight-strong group of cardinals from around the world will shake up central bureaucracy of Italian-dominated Curia The Guardian, By John Vidal, April 14 Pope Francis presaged a revolution in the running of the Catholic church when, at the weekend, he announced the formation of an eight-strong panel of cardinals from all parts of the world [...] Convention set up to reform Irish constitution recommends that same-sex couples get full marriage equality The Guardian, By Henry McDonald, April 14 Ireland is to hold a referendum on legalising gay marriage after a special convention set up to reform the Irish constitution recommended that same-sex couples in the republic be recognised in law. The [...] (Reuters) – Scotland will hold an independence referendum on September 18, 2014, to decide if its five million people should end a 300-year-old union and leave the United Kingdom. First Minister Alex Salmond, announcing the date in the Scottish parliament on Thursday, said a break of ties with London would give Scots the chance “to [...] If leaders may lie, then who should tell the truth? Desmond Tutu It’s official, well almost official. Tonight, the BBC’s Panorama will roll out yet more serious evidence that Tony Blair knew Saddam Hussein had NO weapons of mass destruction for months prior to the United States – British invasion of Iraq. “Fresh evidence is [...] Cypress, much like its neighbor Greece, is in a financial bind. Looking for a 10€ billion bailout package, it needs to show that it is taking steps necessary to balance its budget. Now, you can go the austerity route, but indicators show that austerity is precisely the wrong message to send the markets these days: [...] The next stage of the global financial collapse has now arrived. In an announcement this weekend, the EU and the IMF have come to the rescue of Cyprus, at the request of the government, by offering Euro 10 billion in aid, in exchange for which the Cyprus government will impose a “one-off tax” on all [...] Ex-PM sentenced to year in prison over publication of leaked transcripts from police wiretap in newspaper he owns. Al Jazeera, March 7 An Italian court has sentenced former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to a year in prison over the publication of leaked transcripts from a police wiretap in a newspaper that he owns. Berlusconi, who [...] New York Times, By Eric Lichtblau, March 1 Thirteen years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe. What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped [...] Vatican confirms priests’ written allegations against Cardinal Keith O’Brien have been received and issue is in pontiff’s hands The Guardian, By Severin Carrell, Catherine Deveney, John Hooper and Sam Jones, February 24 Pope Benedict XVI is considering how to respond after being told about allegations that the UK’s most senior Catholic has been accused of [...] (Reuters) – Pope Benedict may change rules governing the conclave that will secretly elect his successor, a move that could move up the global meeting of cardinals who are already in touch about who could best lead Catholics through a period of crisis. The Vatican appears to be aiming to have a new pope elected [...] (Reuters) – A French court on Monday declared U.S. biotech giant Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer, a judgment that could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides. In the first such case heard in court in France, grain grower Paul Francois, 47, says he suffered neurological problems including memory loss, [...] Spiegel, By Christoph Schult Israeli settlers living in the Palestinian terroritories often deceptively give their products a “Made in Israel” label. The European Union wants to move soon to end the practice and appears to be set on a collision course with the country. The wine section on the basement floor of the Galeria Kaufhof [...] |
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