S&#233;gol&#232;ne's New Tack: a Hard Left
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After a plummet in the polls, the once-hot  Socialist candidate tries to rejuvenate her campaign for the French presidency with an appeal to her base
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Dean's rise to party chair bolsters ties to activist networks on the left.
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The PSD is now trying to get out of a crisis by hiding away from it. A month ago, the monitoring of the candidates run by the Coalition for a Clean Parliament (CPC) were given a tough reply by the ruling party.
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YANGON: A cabinet reshuffle in Myanmar has strengthened the hand of hardliners and left a new breed of political novices from the military in charge of crucial dealings with the regimeâs international critics.
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Â· Lower house debates plan for October 21 election Â· Kaczynski hoping to step up nationalist campaign.
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Analysis: Socialist Strauss-Kahn is a widely admired economic manager. Better to have him in Washington than heading up the opposition in Paris
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The dominance of Damascus in Lebanese politics gives rise to a new opposition leader.
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Political wisdom this week runs smack into economic reality. It is not yet clear which force will prove more powerful.
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Liberal pundits are now as enraged as their foes. That may be a problem for the Democrats
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The Trail | Campaign refocuses after Tuesday's pummeling raises new questions about strategy.
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Images of Labour's big power switch
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Â· Rightwing pressure wins commutation for ScooterÂ· Democrats say president has trampled on the law
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With only two weeks to go until election day, the radical leftist leader is fending off his opponents with a divide and conquer strategy
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Seldom has a national political party held a nominating convention so deep in enemy territory. From the northern Bronx to Brooklyn's Coney Island boardwalk, from eastern Queens to the liberal fortress of Manhattan's Upper West Side, New York City is wall-to-wall Democrats.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats look set for an electoral battering in the eastern states of Brandenburg and Saxony on Sunday.
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The dramatic surge in support for a neo-Nazi party and reformed communists in weekend state polls marks a voter drift to the extreme political fringes, an ominous trend just two weeks
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who has caused outrage on the left with his conservative Roman Catholic views on homosexuality and marriage. &quot;We expect a reshuffle of the Commission.