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...Although on Dec. 21 Mexico City became the first Latin American metropolis to vote to legalize same-sex marriage, two Argentines led the charge to the altar. On Dec. 28, Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre became the first gay couple in Latin America to wed. Because Argentina's constitution does not declare that marriage must be between a man and a woman, the men asked for and were granted special permission from the governor of the southern province of Tierra del Fuego, to which they traveled to be pronounced husband and husband...
...foreign governments and pleas from the refugees, who say they face persecution at home. The Hmong fought on the side of the U.S. in the conflicts that ravaged Southeast Asia in the 1970s, and a handful of rebels are still waging an insurgency against Laos' communist government. Although 158 deportees are legitimate refugees, as declared by the U.N., Bangkok refused to continue providing them asylum. Some 300,000 Hmong have fled to Thailand since the '70s, but most have already been repatriated or resettled in other countries...
...Although I respect your choice of Ben Bernanke for Person of the Year, I find it really weird that not a single mention is made of the Iranian protesters [Dec. 28--Jan. 4]. In the online poll you launched over the past weeks, the popular choice was quite clearly oriented toward these freedom fighters. I find it offensive not to have even a mention of them in your letter to readers...
...problem throughout Pakistan, as even the country's interior minister recently conceded, is that the police are ill-trained and poorly equipped to counter terrorism. There is a shortage of bulletproof vests and communication-intercept equipment. Although the U.S. has in recent years provided extensive training programs for Pakistani law-enforcement agencies, these have mostly enhanced their ability to protect senior government officials from assassination attempts and to investigate bomb sites, rather than to preemptively thwart attacks...
...Although Grimsson insists that Iceland will repay the debt - which amounts to about one-third of Iceland's annual output, or $17,400 per Icelander - he says the British and Dutch governments are trying to bully the country into accepting an extortionate interest rate of 5.55% over 15 years. He called for a referendum, set for Feb. 20, on whether the country should accept the repayment plan...