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Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Amid Much Tumult, France Approves ‘Marriage for All’

By Scott Sayare
The New York Times
Originally published April 12, 2013

With a definitive vote by the lower house of Parliament, France on Tuesday became the world's 14th nation, and the third in just two weeks, to approve marriage rights for same-sex couples.

The legislation is expected to be approved by the Constitutional Council and signed into law by President Francois Hollande in time to allow the country's first same-sex weddings this summer.

Passage of the "marriage for all" law, sponsored by Mr. Hollande, a Socialist, came after months of sometimes angry debate and a series of major protests, rallies that drew Roman Catholics from France's rural regions and received the backing of Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders, as well as the conservative political opposition. Homophobic violence had risen in recent weeks, with a handful of attacks on gay couples reported across the country.

The entire story is here.

Friday, December 21, 2012

Drug Executive Faces Manslaughter Charges


By SCOTT SAYARE
The New York Times
Published: December 11, 2012

A French court brought manslaughter and injury charges on Tuesday against a drug executive and six companies in a case involving a diabetes and weight-loss drug that caused cardiovascular damage, the Paris public prosecutor’s office said.

The executive, Jacques Servier, 90, and six companies of the Servier group are accused of having known the risks associated with the drug, Mediator, which they produced and marketed until French authorities ordered it withdrawn in 2009, the spokeswoman, Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, said.

The entire article is here.