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A US federal appeals court temporarily granted the US government’s request for a freeze on a judge’s order requiring the military to allow openly gay troops.

The US military said it is accepting openly gay recruits for the first time in the country’s history, after a judge upheld an order ending a controversial ban on homosexual troops.

The US military is accepting openly gay recruits for the first time in history, even as it tries in the courts to slow the movement to abolish its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

Sixty planners are to move to Land and Property Services in the North, it was revealed today.