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Final results from the second round of voting handed a coalition of leftist parties - headed by Socialists and green groups - control of 21 of France's 22 regions. The eastern region of Alsace was the only one captured by Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). The cumulative national tally saw the left win nearly 54% of the vote, compared to just 35% for the UMP. (See pictures of Bastille Day celebrations...
...national accomplishments. Yet a mere seven months after making those lofty comparisons, Sarkozy this week decided to bury his vaunted tax on carbon emissions designed to help slow global warming. The move was the first policy fatality in the wake of the March 21 regional elections that handed leftist opponents a landslide victory...
...monarchy, halted a decade-long insurgency and set the country on the road to democracy. The Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal, known as Prachanda, has cultivated close diplomatic ties with China. In the meantime, India's government changed too: the ruling Congress Party severed its parliamentary alliance with the leftist parties in 2008, resulting in the closing of a key channel of communication to Nepal...
President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia has been Washington's most fervent ally in a region where leftist leaders like Venezuela's Hugo Chávez have been flexing their muscles and speaking their minds out loud. First elected in 2002, Uribe spent an ironfisted four-year term re-establishing order in a country devastated by leftist rebels, paramilitary groups and drug gangs, winning the respect of much of the populace - enough so that the constitution was amended to allow him a second term. But he wanted a third term and, with approval ratings at about 70% throughout 2009, seemed...
...self-proclaimed leftist who declined to give his name to The Crimson raised the question of regulating the pornography industry...