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Australia raised hopes of global action to fight climate change on Monday by agreeing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, isolating the United States at U.N.-led talks in Bali as the only rich nation not in the pact. Australia's decision won a standing ovation at the opening of tough two-week negotiations on the Indonesian resort isle.The talks aim to pull together rich and poor countries around a common agenda to agree a broader successor to Kyoto by 2009.
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