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By Richard Ingham, Agence France-Presse Supporters of the Kyoto Protocol were gleeful on Saturday after Australian elections left the United States in the wilderness as the only major economy to boycott the UN’s climate pact. The ouster of Prime Minister John Howard stripped President George W. Bush of a key ally barely a week before…
