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Spain's centre-right government has vowed to "promptly" tighten the nation's abortion laws, angering the opposition Socialist Party which had eased access to the procedure.

• 18 апреля 2013, 14:57

The most significant US Senate debate on gun laws in 20 years starts Tuesday with the chamber introducing a bipartisan compromise on background checks.

• 16 апреля 2013, 11:53

Senators struck a hard-fought compromise Wednesday that could expand US background checks to all commercial firearms sales, which may result in the most ambitious change to gun laws since 1994.

• 11 апреля 2013, 18:59

Kazakhstan Ministry of Transport and Communications insists on hiring foreign companies to check and accept Kazakhstan roads into service.

• 10 апреля 2013, 16:44

Almaty's bars and restaurants were checked for observance of the shisha-banning law.

• 09 апреля 2013, 09:07

Kazakhstan Healthcare Ministry introduced a ban on smoking shisha in public places, including night clubs, restaurants, cinemas and any indoor public entertainment facilities on March 14, 2013.

• 01 апреля 2013, 18:55

The new Criminal Code of Kazakhstan is going to expand the cases when the right to bail can be applied.

• 28 марта 2013, 11:30

Nearly 330 million abortions have been performed in China in the 40 years since it first implemented measures to limit population growth in the world's most populous nation.

• 17 марта 2013, 14:54

A divisive debate over Lebanon's electoral law may delay parliamentary elections scheduled for June 9, stoking fears of instability in a country already rattled by the conflict in neighbouring Syria.

• 15 марта 2013, 10:01

Britain should conduct a "fundamental review of the law" governing undercover operations after police were accused of stealing the identities of dead children.

• 02 марта 2013, 10:05

The city of Amsterdam said Tuesday it will raise the legal age of prostitutes from 18 to 21 and announced plans to close brothels during the early morning hours in a bid to protect sex workers.

• 28 февраля 2013, 11:25

President Vladimir Putin has signed a law banning smoking in public places in Russia from June, a cornerstone of the government's bid to improve public health in the nicotine-addicted country.

• 25 февраля 2013, 16:34

The Barack Obama administration on Friday formally asked the US Supreme Court to strike down a 1996 law defining marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman.

• 23 февраля 2013, 13:35

The Philippines hopes to avoid being put on a blacklist of money-laundering havens after President Benigno Aquino signed a new law boosting safeguards against such crimes.

• 16 февраля 2013, 16:19

"I would like to have a mother, but I wouldn't want to lose my two dads," says Frida, a radiant six-year-old Canadian girl unaware of the international controversy raging over gay parenting rights.

• 09 февраля 2013, 12:22

President Nursultan Nazarbayev instructed to study the existing capacities of the country's Armed Forces and set several tasks to the law-enforcement authorities.

• 05 февраля 2013, 21:07

Inability of Kazakhstan's law-enforcement structures to adequately respond to today’s challenges is the system’s shortage: Askhat Daulbayev.

• 04 февраля 2013, 15:17

India's cabinet has approved harsher punishments for rapists, including the death penalty, after a brutal gang-rape in New Delhi that sparked national outrage.

• 02 февраля 2013, 16:55

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that long-sought reforms to a "broken" immigration system were within America's grasp, seeking to lock in rare momentum towards a major cross-party compromise.

• 31 января 2013, 15:37

President Barack Obama heads to Las Vegas Tuesday to begin to mobilize the US public behind a comprehensive immigration reform drive that could provide a glittering second-term legacy achievement.

• 30 января 2013, 11:27