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The Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed draconian anti-gay legislation into law.  The regressive law stigmatizes LGBT people and forbids giving children any information about homosexuality.

The President of Ecuador is further distancing himself and his country from Edward Snowden, the American National Security Agency leaker who is apparently trapped in the transit area of the Moscow Airport.

Two years after the revolution in Tahrir Square, Egypt braces for what could be a tumultuous day of anti-government protests; The US was spying on its closest friends, according to secret documents revealed by the fugitive Edward Snowden; The Stones play Glasto.

Good Morning Australia!  Egypt braces for what could be a revolutionary weekend, Barack Obama treads lightly around any potential visit to Nelson Mandela, and Japan is caught wasting money meant for disaster recovery on enriching power companies, killing whales, and counting turtles.

Authorities in Chad have arrested the suspected ringleader of the gang that carried out one of the worst elephant slaughters in Africa’s recent history.

America’s latest problem with security leaks comes not from low-ranking soldiers or mischievous subcontractors.  The retired second-highest officer in the United States Military is under investigation over a politically sensitive leak of classified information about a covert U.S. cyber attack on Iran’s nuclear program.

Scotland gives young people a say in the future, Turkey’s “democracy” wants to punish people who say bad things about government officials, and when is the Japanese language not really Japanese?

Imagine going to hospital in an emergency, only to wake up in a different country.  That’s the horror facing more and more people who went to live in America for a better life, only to be rejected by the broken healthcare system.

A judge has ordered the ex-treasurer of Spain's ruling conservative Popular Party (PP) be held without bail to keep him from skipping out of the country before his corruption trial starts.

The head of the McDonald’s franchises in Israel is declining to put a restaurant in a Jewish settlement in the Palestinian West Bank.  And that’s drawing criticism from settler’s groups.

Is NSA leaker Edward Snowden a trapped man?  The Ecuadorian government now says that the letter that apparently allowed Snowden to escape Hong Kong for Moscow was unauthorized.  Is any country going to wind up looking good when this is all over?

The United Nations is sound the alarm over a sharp rise in the amount and variety of “designer drugs”, which are hitting the world’s drug markets faster than governments can ban them.

Obama is in Africa, Mandela is reportedly on life support, Rio Tinto’s coal mining is in trouble in part of Africa, and you have to wonder what would make a young man give up a $40 million sports contract.

A day after delivering a blow to voting rights and civil rights in America, the US Supreme Court gave a major boost to marriage equality with two landmark rulings.

Ireland will pay out more than A$81 Million to right the sins of the past.  The money will go to the girls and women who were sentenced to forced labor in the notorious Magdalene Laundries.

Despite President Dilma Rousseff offering major concessions, tens of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets on Wednesday in new demonstrations calling for a crackdown on corruption and better public services.

The mystery of how US Whistleblower Edward Snowden managed to get from Hong Kong to Moscow, as well as where his eventual destination might be, got a little murkier.

A plan to placate more than a million Brazilian protesters runs into opposition; The conservative US Supreme Court guts a landmark law that prevented racism at the polls; And China marks a successful return to space.

An explosion of greenhouse gases from China is expected over the next decade, because an international program to fund their destruction is drying up.

Turkey’s violent crackdown on peaceful protesters who were fed up with autocratic Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have caused alarm in the capitals of Europe.  But for now it’s not getting in the way of business.