Hungary gives permits to prostitutes
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In an effort to bring prostitutes into the legal economy, officials said Monday that Hungary will allow sex workers to apply for an entrepreneur's permit &#151; a move that could generate government revenues from an industry worth an estimated $1 billion annually.
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The occupancy rate in Hungary's health resorts remains high, in spite of an ever-increasing supply of such resorts.
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The government approved a new draft program Thursday to fight diabetes, tuberculosis, AIDS and other diseases partly blamed for Russia's steadily declining population, a spokeswoman said.
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The leftist party that has already legalized gay unions and abortion in Mexico City said Wednesday it wants to make prostitution legal in the capital of this overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country.
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Prostitutes in Buenos Aires launch a campaign to end what they describe as sexual abuse and exploitation.
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The European Union's head office proposed new regulations Friday to allow the export of cheap copies of patented drugs to poor nations fighting AIDS and other killer diseases.
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A cash-strapped Hungarian village is offering the chance of immortality to anyone willing to pay to have a street named after them, and it's hoping world famous celebrities apply.
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BUDAPEST, Nov 29 (IPS) - In an embarrassing development for Hungary, Sweden  has for the past weeks received a growing number of asylum  applications from mostly ethnic Roma citizens who complain of  discrimination in the fellow European Union (EU) member state.
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Voting is due to being in Hungary on a double referendum on citizenship rights and the health care system. Voters are being asked whether to offer citizenship to about 5 million ethnic Hungarians living outside Hungary.
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Hungary's parliament passed a law late on Monday that allows same-sex couples to register a civil partnership with many of the rights and obligations of marriage.
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HELSINKI (BBC NEws) - Police and border guards in Finland have dismantled a prostitution ring run from the city of St Petersburg in neighboring Russia, officials say. They said about 150 women, most of them from Russia, worked as prostitutes in Finnish hotels in about 20 cities. The ring also provided prostitutes for Britain and Norway, police said.  Prostitution is legal in Finland (as in much of the rest of Europe), but procurement, or pimping, is illegal. Human trafficking was also outlawed by Finland's parliament in 2004.
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Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany said it was his intention to solve the economic problems his administration covered up.
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The city of Amsterdam announced Thursday that it will invest up to 15 million euros (21 million dollars) to help clean up its famous red light district by buying brothels there.
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Before accepting the post of Hungary&#39;s sports minister last year, Ferenc Gyurcsany held a press conference where he laid bare his finances.
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On 5 December, Hungarian voters will decide whether to extend dual citizenship to their ethnic kin abroad and at the same time consider a law to ban hospital privatization.
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MOSCOW, Jan 24 (IPS) - Authorities have started granting work permits to  some six million illegal immigrants from the ex-Soviet republics  that have visa-free travel agreements with Russia. But the  workers would be banned from working in certain areas.
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The English city of Liverpool late yesterday  approved plans to set up a red light district to allow legal prostitution.