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Olumide Makanjuola, an executive director of the Initiative For Equality, speaks to Associated Press during an interview in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. Police, working off a list of 168 suspects purportedly obtained through torture, are arresting dozens of gay men in Nigeria's northern Bauchi state, human rights activists said Tuesday. A new law in Nigeria, dubbed the "Jail the Gays" bill, is encouraging the persecution of gays and will endanger programs fighting HIV-AIDS in the gay community, said Dorothy Aken'Ova, executive director of Nigeria's International Center for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights. On Monday, President Goodluck Jonathan's office confirmed that the Nigerian leader signed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act that criminalizes gay marriage, gay organizations and anyone working with or promoting them. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Becky Ranes places a photo of her 9-year-old son Joshua Savyon on the table before testifying Tuesday Jan. 14, 2014 at the Statehouse in Concord, N.H. before the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of a bill that would establish domestic violence as a crime in New Hampshire. Ranes son was shot and killed by his father last year. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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Becky Ranes places a photo of her 9-year-old son Joshua Savyon on the table before testifying Tuesday Jan. 14, 2014 at the Statehouse in Concord, N.H. before the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of a bill that would establish domestic violence as a crime in New Hampshire. Ranes son was shot and killed by his father last year. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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** FILE ** This Jan. 25, 2006, file photo shows a Mexican federal police officer reaches down to assist a Mexican army soldier after climbing up a ladder from a sophisticated clandestine tunnel that passes under the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/David Maung,File)
