Palestinian groups Fatah, Hamas agree to first elections in nearly 15 years
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(Worthy News) – Two rival Palestinian political parties said on Thursday that they will hold general elections within six months.
Officials from President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement, which controls the West Bank, and his Islamist rival Hamas in Gaza have been holding talks in the Turkish city of Istanbul over the past two days.
It is part of the latest move to end more than a decade of infighting between the two factions. [ Source: Deutche Welle (Read More…) ]
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