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Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - As U.S. soldiers expanded their role in Haiti, rebel leader Guy Philippe said on Wednesday that his forces would lay down their arms. "Now that there are foreign troops promising to protect the Haitian people É and they have given the guarantee to protect the Haitian people É we will lay down our arms," Philippe told a news conference. Paris - A previously unknown group is threatening to blow up railway tracks throughout France unless it's paid millions of dollars, the French Interior Ministry confirmed on Wednesday. The threat has been made in a series of letters from a group calling itself AZF. Acting on a tip in one of the letters, French authorities found a bomb under a railway line on Feb. 21 near Limoges, between Paris and Toulouse in southwestern France. New York - Gay marriage is illegal in New York and municipal officials should respect the law by not issuing marriage licences to gay couples, the state's attorney general says. "I personally would like to see the law changed, but must respect the law as it now stands," Eliot Spitzer said in a statement Wednesday. Last Friday, the mayor of New Paltz, a town 120 kilometres north of Manhattan, married 25 same-sex couples. Mayor Jason West now faces 19 criminal counts. In February, San Francisco city hall began issuing "gender neutral" marriage licences.
