41.   Turkey has fought leftist militants for decades and has been battling Islamic extremists who have killed dozens of people, sometimes torturing them to death in underground cells.

42.   Turkey said Friday it hopes Belgium will allow the extradition of a leftist militant after the European Union branded her organization as a terrorist group.

43.   Twenty-five years after leftist militants gunned down a Milan police official, three men convicted of the killing have gone to jail.

44.   Da Silva, a leftist militant and the frontrunner until recently, also cast his ballot in Sao Paulo and warned voters against his rival.