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BBC News
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Israel's interior minister has called for reforming the law that grants Jews around the world Israeli citizenship.
Meir Sheetrit said citizenship should be earned by a strong commitment to Israel and not granted automatically.
He was addressing the..
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Yahoo News
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Uganda scrapped an adultery law Thursday that campaigners said discriminated against women.
Uganda's Constitutional Court ordered the changes to the Penal Code, under which it was legal for a married man to have an affair with an unmarried woman but ag..
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USA Today
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A bill modifying Hungary's penal code could allow pornographic material involving 14- to 17-year-olds to be made and kept for personal use. The Justice Ministry said the draft proposal, presented last month by Hungarian Justice Minister Jozsef Petretei..
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Malta Star
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An Italian judge ordered a 13 year old girl from Torino to abort her unborn child because her parents were opposed to the baby. Italian legislation states that a minor is not allowed to decide whether to abort or not and the 'decision' falls entirely..
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ABC News
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More than 20,000 supporters of an Islamic alliance rallied Sunday, demanding the government withdraw changes to a controversial rape statute that they say go against Islam...
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www.smdailyjournal.com
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Belmont is set to make history by becoming the first city in the nation to ban smoking on its streets and almost everywhere else...
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CBC
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An Ontario judge has struck down part of the Anti-terrorism Act, but legal experts were divided on whether it will make successful prosecutions more difficult...
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BBC News
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Police in Paris have detained a man in connection with Thursday's parcel bomb attack at law offices which killed one person and injured several others.
A police source told the French news agency AFP that the man had been reported in 2005 for harassmen..
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BBC News
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Italian authorities have started deporting Romanian immigrants with criminal records under a controversial new law to tackle crime.
The move was prompted by the murder of a woman in Rome, allegedly by a Romanian illegal immigrant.
Italy's government..
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Alter Net
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The proposed oil law facing the Iraqi cabinet would allow Western oil companies to take about 50% of all production as their share, an "obvious robbery of the Iraqi oil," says oil workers union heavy.
As the Iraqi cabinet approves part of a controversi..
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BBC News
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Authorities in the Chinese province of Hunan say that nearly 2,000 officials broke the ban on having more than one child, in the years 2000-2005.
The Chinese government announced earlier this year that fines for breaking the one-child law were to be in..
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Al Jazeera
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The administration in the autonomous Kurdish region in the north of Iraq said on Wednesday that it had "not seen and approved the final text of the law". "We hope that the cabinet is not approving a text with which the KRG (Kurdish Regional Government)..
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BBC News
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The Iraqi government has approved an amended draft law on how to share the country's oil wealth, officials say.
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said parliament would begin debating the bill on Wednesday.
There are no details about changes to the..
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Al Jazeera
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The ruling was an embarrassment for Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the prime minister, and his twin Lech, Poland's president, who have made the law a cornerstone of their political agenda.
The brothers have exerted pressure on the tribunal in the past few days, a..
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BBC News
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Uganda's adultery law has been scrapped by the Constitutional Court because it treated men and women unequally.
The law made it an offence for a married woman to have an affair, but it allowed a cheating husband to have an affair with an unmarried woma..
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Los Angeles Times
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This story begins with a crime.
Under normal circumstances, there is no reason anyone would want to steal my bike. It's a basic get-around-town model that cost $150. It was the biggest bicycle a Japanese department store carried and it's still too smal..
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New York Times
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LAST week, Viacom asked a federal court to order the video-sharing service YouTube to pay it more than $1 billion in damages for some 150,000 videos that Viacom claims it owns and YouTube users have shared. “YouTube,” the complaint alleges,..
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USA Today
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An economist and a journalist became the first couple united under Mexico City's new gay civil union law Friday, kissing while an orchestra played "Besame Mucho" and police guarded their white wedding tent filled with guests.
The new law, which took ef..
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Washington Post
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China's legislature on Friday passed a controversial law designed to protect private property rights, in what was described as a significant milestone on the path toward a market economy.
The legislation stopped short of disavowing the principle that a..
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SF Gate
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After more than a quarter century of market-oriented economic policies and record-setting growth, China enacted today its first law to protect private property explicitly.
The measure, which was delayed a year ago amid vocal opposition from resurgent..
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