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John Abadallah Wambere, an openly gay activist from Uganda who now lives in Cambridge, Mass., is seeking asylum in the United States because his home country toughened criminal punishment against gays, including life in prison for gay sex.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina, both members of a Russian dissident punk group, went to the U.S. Capitol and asked members of Congress to add 16 officials to the list of Russian human-rights violators who face U.S. sanctions.

John Kitzhaber, 67, the Democratic governor of Oregon and a former emergency-room doctor, performed CPR on an unconscious woman in downtown Portland, assisting her until medics could arrive, according to his spokesman and Fire Department spokesmen.

Robert Campbell, 41, a Texas death-row inmate set to die Tuesday for the 1991 slaying of a Houston woman, is seeking to have prison officials reveal the source of their lethal-injection drugs to avoid an incident “as horrific” as last week’s bungled execution in Oklahoma, Campbell’s lawyers said in a federal civil-rights lawsuit.

Percy Fernandez, 75, the mayor of Bolivia’s largest city, Santa Cruz, who grabbed the thigh of a woman during a broadcast event, said he had not intended to offend journalist Mercedes Guzman, “nor have I done so,” but did not specifically apologize for touching her.

President Jose Mujica signed the long-awaited rules for Uruguay’s legal marijuana marketplace, launching a rollout that should stock pharmacies with government-approved marijuana cigarettes for sale by year’s end.

President Joachim Gauck of Germany visited the former Nazi concentration camp in Terezin where tens of thousands perished during the occupation of Czechoslovakia.

Jeremy Moody, 31, and his wife, Christine, 37, who carried out a plan to kill registered sex offender Charles Parker and his wife, Gretchen, in July, showed little remorse when they were sentenced to life in prison in South Carolina, with Jeremy Moody shouting: “That’s what child molesters get!”

Stacey Campfield, a Republican state senator in Tennessee who compared the federal health-care law to the forced transportation of Jews to concentration camps during the Holocaust, wrote on his blog that he likes “ice cream, mom, apple pie and puppies. This message has been approved by my campaign staff.”

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