Macedonian Bid to Kill Rights Bill Fails
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In Macedonia, a referendum aimed at blocking plans to grant more local autonomy to the country&#39;s ethnic Albanian minority has failed due to low voter turnout.
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An official of Macedonia&#39;s ruling coalition says Sunday&#39;s referendum challenging ethnic Albanian autonomy will go down to defeat for lack of sufficient turnout.
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Macedonia's failed referendum to overturn EU-backed legislation giving more autonomy to the ethnic Albanian minority met European standards despite opposition claims of fraud, European observers said.
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The U.S. House of Representatives failed on Thursday to muster the two-thirds majority needed to pass a proposed constitutional amendment backed by President Bush to ban gay marriage.
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The US House of Representatives failed on Thursday to muster the two-thirds majority needed to pass a proposed constitutional amendment backed by President Bush to ban gay marriage.
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SKOPJE, Macedonia -- A referendum bid to block a law that gives Macedonia's Albanian minority more rights failed yesterday, upholding the Western-brokered peace plan that ended ethnic fighting in 2001.
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Spanish MPs overwhelmingly reject a plan put forward by the Basque leader for greater autonomy.
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An attempt to halt a libel action against Arnold Schwarzenegger and two of his aides fails.
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The House defeated a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage yesterday in a vote on an election-year wedge issue that had already failed to pass the Senate.
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The decision by the European Parliament&#39;s Civil Liberties Committee to reject the nomination of Rocco Buttiglione as European Commissioner for Justice and Security over his comments on homosexuality and marriage is very unfortunate.
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Supporters of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko lost a round to their foes in parliament Saturday, when pro-government lawmakers helped block legal changes intended to prevent fraud in the Dec. 26 repeat of the country's presidential runoff vote.
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The British government welcomed the failure of an opposition-backed referendum in Macedonia attempting to overturn EU-backed laws to empower the ethnic Albanian minority.
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The U.N. Human Rights Council rejected on Tuesday an attempt to hold the Sudanese government responsible for halting atrocities in Darfur, opting instead for a less-pointed resolution calling on all warring parties to end abuses.
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A campaign to make the golden eagle Scotland's first national bird is rejected by MSPs.
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Early voter turnout was low in a  referendum on Sunday in Macedonia, where nationalist opposition  parties want to stop a Western-inspired law giving ethnic  Albanians more power.
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Groups representing torture victims of Chile's former military government reject a proposed compensation deal.
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Villagers fail in their legal bid for a large exclusion zone to prevent animal rights protests against a guinea pig farm.