Italy's Renzi Wins Confidence Vote on Same-Sex Unions Bill
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Prime Minister Matteo Renzi won a Senate confidence vote on a controversial bill that will allow same-sex civil unions in Italy, one of the last European Union states without such a provision.
Renzi won the vote in the upper house with 173 votes in favor and 71 votes against, after watering down the bill by removing a so-called “step-child adoption” clause allowing unmarried gay and heterosexual couples to request adoption of partners’ children.