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Palestinian leader's loyalists win local elections, including some seats in Gaza

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ali SawaftaCAIRO/WEST BANK, April 26 (Reuters) - Loyalists of President Mahmoud Abbas won most races in Palestinian municipal elections, election officials said on Sunday, in a vote that for the first time in nearly two decades included a city in the Gaza Strip run by rival Hamas. Saturday’s ballot marked the first elections of any kind in Gaza since 2006 and the first Palestinian polls since the Gaza war began more than two years ago with Hamas' cross‑border attack on s

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