Uganda government outlaws female circumcision
FOX 11 Tucson - Fri Dec 11, 6:19 am ETKAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan official says that parliament has passed a bill banning female genital mutilation.
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18 Gays Gone From TV Too Soon
The Advocate - 7 minutes agoThe editors over at AfterElton.com have compiled a list of 18 gay characters that went missing from the small screen too soon after their shows were canceled... including a pre-Heroes Zachary Quinto in the short live Tori Spelling comedy So NoTORIous.
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Weekend Top 10: Diablo Ballet explores world of dance
Contra Costa Times - 8 minutes agoAlso: Aurelia Thierree stars in Berkeley Rep holiday family show 'Aurelia's Oratorio'; Shotgun Players tackle Bertolt Brecht's 'Threepenny Opera.'
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How a friendship blossomed into a cause for Fay DeAvignon
Natick Bulletin & Tab - 29 minutes agoFay DeAvignon returned recently from a 2.5 week trip to Uganda where she delivered a large load of medicine to clinics in rural areas of the East African country. She first made such a trip in 2002 when she started a medical clinic in a village with the help of a Ugandan woman she got to know when she worked as a nurse who took care of DeAvignon's mother in her last years.
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Evelyn Leopold: Nuclear Energy - Answer to Global Warming or Status Symbol?
The Huffington Post - 1 hour 1 minutes agoIn the search for "green" alternatives to oil or coal, nuclear energy is expected to make a comeback - mainly in Russia, China, India and...
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Holiday Events, Festivities Abound Across Long Beach
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China Plans First Gay Pageant
The Advocate - 1 hour 37 minutes agoA gay pageant is planned for the first time in China to select the country's entrant in the Mr. Gay World competition.
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GLOBAL: Good news for climate change migrants
IRIN - 1 hour 45 minutes agoCOPENHAGEN, 11 December 2009 (IRIN) - After months of negotiations, the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen have good news for countries that might see hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people migrating or being displaced by climate change.
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Uganda parliament outlaws female genital mutilation
AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 59 minutes agoUganda's parliament has unanimously voted to outlaw female genital mutilation, imposing a 10-year penalty on anyone who conducts the procedure and life in prison for those who physically force a woman to submit to the act, one of the bill's main sponsors told AFP Friday.
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NYC Gay-Bashing Victim Speaks
The Advocate - 2 hours 7 minutes agoTarlach MacNiallais, the gay Irish activist who says he was assaulted by bouncers in a Queens nightclub on Saturday, spoke about the attack.
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Elton and Judy Voted Top Gay Icons
The Advocate - 2 hours 37 minutes agoA poll released Thursday listed Elton John and Judy Garland as the greatest gay icons of all time.
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Lola Olley: Has Uganda learned nothing from its Sudanese and Rwandan neighbors?
The Huffington Post - 2 hours 47 minutes agoAn infrastructure of mass killing is preparing itself for the upcoming decade. There has been an apparent shift from genocide in the region based...
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[ELD] ENGLAND: Anglican coalition calls Canterbury's response to L.A. election, lack of Uganda state
Worldwide Faith News - 2 hours 55 minutes ago>Episcopal Life Daily >December 10, 2009 Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife . >Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes: * WORLD REPORT - CUBA: New bishop to be announced in January * WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Anglican coalition calls Canterbury's response to L.A. election, lack of Uganda statement 'perverse' * WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND ...
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Rachel Maddow Catches Rick Warren In Blatant Lie (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post - Fri Dec 11, 10:58 am ETWhat's Your Reaction? On Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow reviewed Rick Warren's video condemnation of an anti-gay law in Uganda . While she said the statement was "better late than never," she stated that the famous pastor came up a little short.
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Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Challenges Individual Donors to Join Hosea Feed the Hungry in the Fight Against ...
PR Newswire via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 11, 10:58 am ETFoundation will provide $50,000 challenge grant to support HFTH's operating expenses in 2010
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The Death Penalty in Uganda
Christian News Wire - Fri Dec 11, 10:41 am ETMEDIA ADVISORY, Dec. 11 / Christian Newswire / -- By official count 22 young men were executed under Uganda’s law on homosexuality. The law in question required that all men and boys in Uganda be willing to submit to the homosexual seduction of it’s ruler, King Mwanga.
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