Portugal’s parliament Friday passed a bill to legalize same-sex couples, less than three decades after revoking the country’s ban on homosexuality, but rejected proposals to allow same sex marriages to adopt. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

The city council of the US capital, Washington, voted Tuesday to legalize gay marriage, a council official said.

The government of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will mount a plan to try to prove that keep control of the commissions of the Chamber of Deputies, despite being otherwise, how will they?By Blocking laws proposed by the opposition.

The Buenos Aires Parliament passed a bill to protect people with celiac disease, which promotes research into the causes of the illness and the marketing of gluten-free food.

Ugandan parliament has outraged the world with the bill that introduces the death penalty by hanging for “aggravated homosexuality”. The bill, which is likely to be passed this month, proposes that homosexuals who have sex with disabled people, under 18s or when the accused is HIV-positive be sentenced to death.

In New York State, lawmakers rejected a bill legalizing same-sex marriage.

With a majority of kirchnerist lawmakers, the Senate passed the political reform bill pushed by the government. And just like with the media law, the Senate didn’t make any changes to the text submitted by the Lower House.

The Senate passed a bill to extend until the end of 2011 the economic emergency bill imposed by the Executive as a rsult of the crisis the country underwent in 2001.

The controversial Dairy bill promoted by the officialism and the UCR could be passed at the Lower House, despite the rejection by some sectors of production and the business of the dairy chain.

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Kirchnerism succeded once again in passing a controversial bill to the Lower House. Deputies passed the Political Reform bill, which will now be submitted to the Senate under the Kirchners pressure over its approval before the elections.

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has asked Moyano to hold the protest he was organizing with picketer leader Luis D’Elia at a later time. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

The General Law and Family, Women and Minority committees, of the Representatives House today failed to gather a quorum to amend the civil marriage law, allowing same-sex marriages.

US President Barack Obama has made a last-minute plea in person to Democrat lawmakers ahead of a crucial vote on his landmark healthcare reforms.

American voters have delivered a sharp rebuke to Barack Obama’s administration by rejecting his allies in Virginia, the swing state that helped deliver him the White House almost exactly a year ago, and New Jersey’s Democratic stronghold. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Former President Eduardo Duhalde said today that the political reform initiated by Cristina Kirchner’s government “is a trap” if the political parties are not given 4 years to adapt.

San Luis Governor Alberto Rodriguez Saa announced that he will lodge a law suit before the Nation’s Supreme Court against the Media Law launched by the kirchnerism three weeeks ago.

Terminator actor and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has come under fire after concealing an obscene message in a letter to a political opponent.

Amid a maelstrom of opinions on the subject, the House of Representatives will begin to discuss two bills that enable same-sex marriages on Friday.

Without the opposition’s presence, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced this afternoon the launch of a political reform to institutionalize the open, mandatory and simultaneous primaries, for the presidential candidates and party disputes. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)