Madonna's Malawi trip in confusion over adoption
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BLANTYRE, Malawi  - Officials in Malawi insisted on Thursday that pop star Madonna was going to adopt a local child but acknowledged tension with the visiting singer, who denies having chosen an orphan boy.
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AIDS-ravaged Malawi needs to make its own decision whether to adopt male circumcision in a bid to reduce levels of HIV infection, international experts said at a conference in Blantyre on Wednesday.
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The Malawi welfare official overseeing Madonna's efforts to adopt an African toddler says he will make a long-awaited trip to the singer's London home next week to assess her suitability as an adoptive parent.
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A Malawian minister on Monday praised Madonna's efforts to rally support for orphans in the southern African nation and said it would be wrong for the government to deny the pop star's adoption of a child there.
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Madonna is coming to the Holy Land. The pop diva, a student of Jewish mysticism, was headed to Israel on a spiritual quest for the Jewish New Year, which begins at sundown Wednesday.
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A Malawi judge allows human rights groups to challenge pop star Madonna's adoption of a baby boy.
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A child welfare official visits pop star Madonna to assess her suitability to adopt a child from Malawi.
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The venue and date of Madonna's Moscow tour date are changed to allay fears about safety.
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Israel was abuzz with excitement yesterday over the arrival of Madonna, its biggest celebrity visitor in years. The singer and her friends went to Israel yesterday
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One of Judaism&#39;s holiest sites - the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem - has been visited by pop singer Madonna. She has been joined by her British filmmaker husband Guy Ritchie on a spiritual mission to Israel.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - Adoption hotlines around the  world have been jammed with callers since the Asian tsunami on  Dec. 26 orphaned thousands of children, but experts and aid  agencies are telling would-be parents they may be disappointed.
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Pop diva Madonna adopted a young boy  in Malawi on Wednesday and moved ahead with plans to fund a  center for 1,000 orphans, many of whom lost parents to AIDS in  the impoverished African nation.
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Pop diva Madonna arrived in Malawi on  Wednesday to adopt an African child and fund an orphan center  for 1,000 children, many of whom lost parents to AIDS.
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Madonna hosts a celebrity-packed event in New York in aid of orphaned children in Malawi.
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London - An infertile mother who gave birth to a so-called &quot;miracle baby&quot; was the victim of a &quot;cruel deception&quot; by child traffickers motivated purely by financial greed, a judge in London ruled on Friday.
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Pop star Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie will soon be questioned by a Malawian welfare inspector who will be checking to see whether they are a suitable family to adopt a one-year-old Malawian boy, The Sun reported on Monday.
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Madonna has accepted a court ruling allowing human rights groups to monitor her adoption of an African child.