Mayor's Lesbian Partner Barred from Race in Brazil
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - A Brazilian court on Fridaybarred the lesbian partner of the outgoing mayor of an Amazontown from trying to succeed her, citing a ban on politicaloffice passing between family members.
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The controversial sport now has female participants  -  with Brazil in the lead
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The arrest prevented her from traveling to an awards ceremony in the United States held by a nonprofit group connected to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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An electoral court fined President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva &#36;18,000 for using a public works project to promote a mayoral candidate from his party.
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Mexico's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the armed forces cannot kick out HIV-positive members because doing so is discriminatory and unconstitutional.
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The United Methodist Church defrocked a lesbian minister who lives with her partner Thursday for violating the denomination's ban on actively gay clergy &#151; the first such decision by the church in 17 years.
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An openly gay candidate lost his bid on Saturday to become mayor of Dallas in a race that attracted wide attention because of his sexual orientation.
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An electoral court fined President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva $18,000 for using a public works project to promote a mayoral candidate from his party.
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A Brazilian carnival group banned from parading with a dancing Hitler and mannequins representing Holocaust victims danced the samba through the streets Monday with men and women in white gowns wearing gags.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da  Silva's Workers' Party (PT) won the mayoralty of six state  capitals in Sunday's municipal vote but was forced into a  run-off to defend its hold on the race's biggest prize, the  city of Sao Paulo.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's leftist Worker's Party appears set to lose control of South America's biggest city, Sao Paulo, with polls showing voters will replace the mayor with the man who lost the presidential election to Silva two years ago.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Less than four months after  causing an uproar by almost expelling a New York Times  reporter, the Brazilian government criticized the U.S.  newspaper on Monday for a report on a controversial proposal to  oversee the country's journalists.
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The mayor of Vilnius bans a gay rights rally planned for the city, and a social event is attacked with smoke bombs.
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A footballer from Cameroon who married a Londonderry woman loses a legal action over alleged racial abuse.
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Travel: City office of civil rights overturns bar's ban on badly dressed tourists calling it discriminatory.
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A U.S. federal judge halted planned elections in Port Chester, New York, on Friday, after the government said its political system effectively denies Hispanics representation in the local government.
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A law banning billboards and hoardings in Brazil's biggest city is facing legal challenges from angry ad firms.