American gays to serve in army

A policy banning open homosexuality in the US military has been repealed after nearly two decades.

The dropping of "don't ask, don't tell" means service members can now reveal they are gay without fear of investigation or discharge

Pentagon press secretary George Little told reporters on Monday that the Department of Defense was fully prepared for repeal, and that 97% of military personnel had received training on the new law.

The armed forces have been accepting applications from openly gay recruits for a number of weeks and will begin processing them now that the new law has taken effect.

Ahmet Davutoglu leaves international anti-terror conference as Israeli deputy FM gears to address participants.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu left an international conference on terror just moments before Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon was set to address its participants.

Other than Davutoglu and Ayalon, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé and his Italian counterpart Franco Frattini also spoke an the conference.

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