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SAN FRANCISCO – Same-sex couples who raise children are lawful parents and must provide for them if they break up, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday. The precedent-setting decision puts former gay and lesbian couples on equal ground with unmarried heterosexual couples who break up and marks the latest decision …

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan – The Uzbek government won backing from the country’s upper house on Friday for ordering the United States to withdraw troops from the Central Asian nation. The 93 Senators present voted unanimously for a resolution supporting the government’s July 29 order giving the United States six months to …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A Sunni Arab negotiator said Saturday that Sunnis submitted counterproposals on Iraq’s constitution and would meet with the U.S. ambassador, who has urged the country’s factions to produce a charter acceptable to all. Earlier, parliament Speaker Hajim al-Hassani (search), himself a Sunni, said Shiites and Kurds had …