Uruguayan president signs law legalizing gay couples
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12/27/2007
MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) - Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez on Thursday signed a law that legalizes civil unions for homosexual couples, which is the first nationwide law of its kind in Latin America.