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Thailand is the third territory in Asia to legalise same-sex marriages after Taiwan and Nepal.

The law gained the support of nearly all upper house lawmakers and will be sent to the palace for royal approval.

The bill had the support of all of Thailand's major parties and was more than a decade in the making.

The law gives same-sex couples the right to wed and adopt children and comes after decades of campaigning for marriage equality.

This will provide rights, responsibilities and family status as equal to the marriage between a man and a woman presently in all aspects.

The court ruling comes five years after a historic 2018 judgement when the Supreme Court scrapped a colonial-era ban on gay sex.

Only Taiwan and Nepal allow same-sex unions in Asia, where largely conservative values still dominate politics and society.

Taiwan was the first in Asia to recognise such unions, while same-sex acts are illegal in some countries, such as Malaysia.

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A major symbolic victory in a country where the constitution defines marriage as being based on "the mutual consent of both sexes."

Germany's parliament backed the legalisation of same-sex marriage on Friday in a historic vote hailed by gay activists and leftist parties.

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The court gave two years for legal amendments to allow same-sex marriage.

Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he will not seek to overturn the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States.

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