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French Prime Minister orders extreme-right group dissolved after student’s murder
PARIS — French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Saturday directed Interior Minister Manuel Valls to take immediate steps to dissolve the extreme right group known as Revolutionary Nationalist Youth, believed to have neo-nazi ties.
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Masked man disrupts French Open to protest legalization of same-sex marriage
PARIS — Protesters, upset by recent legislation in France allowing for same-sex marriages, disrupted the French Open tennis final on Sunday between Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer.
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French gay rights activist killed in fight with skinheads
PARIS — A gay rights activist has been killed by a group of skinheads in the heart of Paris’ shopping district, officials said Thursday, in an attack that has raised fears of increased far-right violence.
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France’s first same-sex wedding is broadcast to nation
MONTPELLIER, France — In a historic ceremony broadcast live on French television, the first gay couple to marry in France said “oui” then sealed the deal with a lengthy and very public kiss.
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Tens of thousands protest in Paris against France’s gay marriage law
PARIS — Tens of thousands of people protested against France’s new gay marriage law in central Paris on Sunday.
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BREAKING: French president signs marriage equality bill into law
PARIS — French President Francois Hollande has signed a law authorizing gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples, after months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate.
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France’s constitutional authority rejects challenge to marriage equality law
PARIS — France’s constitutional council, the country’s highest constitutional authority, on Friday rejected a challenge by conservative lawmakers to the country’s new marriage equality law, saying the law is constitutional.
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French protest against passage of gay marriage bill turns violent
PARIS — France legalized gay marriage on Tuesday after a wrenching national debate that exposed deep conservatism in the nation’s heartland and triggered huge demonstrations that tapped into intense discontent with the Socialist government. Within hours, fiery clashes broke out between protesters and riot police.
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BREAKING: France becomes 14th country to legalize same-sex marriage
PARIS — French lawmakers have legalized same-sex marriage after months of bruising debate and street protests that brought hundreds of thousands to Paris.
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‘Extraordinary security’ in place as French lawmakers prepare for marriage vote
PARIS — Police say legions of officers and a small battery of water cannon are at France’s National Assembly as lawmakers prepare for a final vote to legalize gay marriage.