France chided over gay adoption
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Europe's Court of Human Rights says France discriminated against a lesbian who wanted to adopt a child.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday condemned an attempt by a French group to spirit more than 100 children out of Chad on the grounds that they were orphans from Darfur in danger of being killed.
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France's involvement in Ivory Coast receives sceptical scrutiny in several papers.
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Paris scrambled Monday to contain a row sparked by a French charity's bid to airlift more than 100 children out of Chad, a key ally for Europe's peacekeeping strategy in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region.
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France rejected an asylum appeal from the widow of late Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana on Thursday, saying she was at the heart of the regime responsible for her country's 1994 genocide.
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Premier Tony Blair and his successor Gordon Brown had a furious row after a reference to &quot;undistorted competition&quot; in an EU document was removed at France&#39;s request, media reported Saturday.
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The European Union's new justice chief, Rocco Buttiglione, has come under fire from MEPs challenging his disapproval of homosexuality and his support for setting up migrant gateways outside the bloc.
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LONDON : Italy&#39;s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has slammed the refusal by European lawmakers to endorse Italy&#39;s candidate for justice commissioner because of his views on gays as an attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his centre
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Italy's disputed candidate for EU justice  and security commissioner, under fire for calling homosexuality  a sin, has said single mothers are "not very good."
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, facing  a tide of criticism over his call for schoolchildren to "adopt"  Jewish child victims of the Holocaust, hit back on Friday  saying France had to raise children "with open eyes."
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The Spanish government approved a bill to legalise homosexual marriages, which will make it only the third country in Europe to condone same-sex marriages -- but the move sparked fury within a still influential Roman Catholic Church.
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French presidential hopeful Nicolas  Sarkozy was accused by his rivals of xenophobia and flirting  with far-right voters on Friday after proposing to create a  ministry for immigration and national identity.
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France's highest court Tuesday rejected as unlawful the first marriage by a gay couple in France, annulling the union of the two men.
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The European Union&#39;s normally yawn-inducing institutions raised eyebrows on Wednesday when a spat over comments about homosexuality made by an Italian bureaucrat led to the
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An official report suggesting that French children should be forced to learn English in school from the age of eight has provoked an outcry among nationalists, teachers and unions.
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African Bishops condemned the Anglican Church&#39;s stance on homosexuality yesterday and said that they would stop sending priests to be trained in countries where same-sex relationships were accepted.
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Helene Flautre, a French citizen and Chairwoman of the European Parliament (EP)&#39;s Subcommittee on Human Rights said that France&#39;s proposed referendum on Turkey&#39;s membership to the European Union (EU) is a shame.