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Source: AFP via France24.com Uruguay on Thursday became the first Latin American country to recognize gay civil unions, after President Tabare Vazquez signed a law granting certain legal rights to cohabiting couples of any gender. Uruguay's law takes effect nationally at the start of 2008. The new...

Source: Xinhua RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Uruguay's legalization of civil unions for homosexual couples may open new possibilities for homosexual couples in Brazil, said Brazilian lower house member Fernando Gabeira on Wednesday. Gabeira, of the Green Party, told local media that the tendency...