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Texas abortion law passes despite protests The Texas senate late Friday approved a bill setting some of the strictest limits on abortion in the United States, just weeks after a filibuster by opposition Democrats dramatically thwarted the measure.

13 July 2013

Nazarbayev signs anti-torture law The document is aimed at creating mechanism for prevention of tortures and other forms of illicit treatment to people in places of confinement.

08 July 2013

Wales votes for 'presumed consent' organ donation Wales will become the first country in the United Kingdom to adopt an organ and tissue donation scheme based on presumed consent after assembly members voted in favour of a bill.

04 July 2013

Grandmother, 77, wins first China neglect case: report The daughter of a Chinese grandmother has been ordered to visit her at least once every two months, in the first case under a new law to protect the elderly.

03 July 2013

Gays celebrate landmark US marriage rulings Gays and lesbians across the United States erupted in celebration Wednesday after the Supreme Court passed two landmark rulings on same-sex marriage in their favor.

27 June 2013

US Supreme Court steps back into abortion battle After refusing a string of cases dealing with the hot-button issue of abortion, the US Supreme Court waded back into the fray on Monday by accepting a case dealing with protests at clinics.

25 June 2013

Frightening images won't help cut smoking: opinion Some experts believe that the law requiring frightening images to be printed on cigarette packs in Kazakhstan will not reduce the number of smokers.

17 June 2013

Australian court agrees, we're not all male or female A landmark ruling won by an Australian gender trailblazer which finds that sex does not just mean male or female could have broader implications as society becomes more accepting of diversity.

17 June 2013

Kazakhstan Senate approves draft law on renewable energy sources Kazakhstan Senate has approved the draft law supporting use of renewable energy sources in the first reading.

14 June 2013

Bloomberg to donors: shun US senators over gun vote New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg personally wrote Wednesday to hundreds of Big Apple donors, asking them to stop funding four Democratic senators who opposed tougher gun laws in Congress.

13 June 2013

Immigration bill passes hurdles in US Senate Bolstered by support from President Barack Obama, a landmark immigration bill passed a pair of crucial test votes Tuesday in the US Senate, kicking off weeks of debate on the comprehensive reform.

12 June 2013

Nazarbayev returns pension reform draft to parliament Executing the authority vested on me by the Constitutions, I am recommitting the draft to the parliament for revision of and voting on the timeframe of the raise of retirement age for women: President Nazarbayev.

08 June 2013

US drops plan to allow pocket knives on flights The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), bowing to a chorus of outrage led by flight attendants, abandoned Wednesday its plan to allow pocket knives in carry-on baggage.

06 June 2013

Swiss to vote on tightening of asylum law, again The Swiss will vote Sunday on whether to approve an emergency tightening of the country's asylum law in a bid to stem the influx of refugees to the wealthy Alpine nation.

06 June 2013

French move to ban industrial food from 'restaurants' Worried its gastronomic reputation is being damaged by substandard eateries, France is considering banning establishments from calling themselves restaurants if meals are not made from scratch by in-house chefs.

04 June 2013

Russia's ambitious smoking ban goes into effect Russia's ambitious smoking ban, which aims to cut the number of smokers in half and improve public health, went into effect Saturday amid doubts that its measures can be fully enforced.

03 June 2013

New law reignites debate over Germany's 'baby hatch' Germany's "baby hatches", where women can safely leave their unwanted newborn, have come under fire as the government pushes a new law to guarantee a child the right to eventually know its mother's identity.

01 June 2013

Thousands protest gay marriage in Paris At least 150,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Paris to protest a new law allowing gay marriage, a largely peaceful gathering that later turned violent as riot police battled hundreds of right-wingers.

27 May 2013

Nazarbayev signs law on countering pornography Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a law on countering pornography.

22 May 2013

Japan parliament approves child abduction treaty Japan's parliament on Wednesday approved an international treaty on child abductions after decades of pressure from the United States and other Western nations.

22 May 2013

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