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By Lamine Chikhi and Nidal al-Mughrabi ALGIERS/GAZA (Reuters) – Rival Palestinian factions meeting in Algiers for talks mediated by the Algerian government agreed on Thursday to resolve 15 years of discord through elections that will be held within a year, a Palestinian and an Algerian official said. However, there was scepticism back home that they would deliver any concrete changes after previous such promises of elections failed to materialise. The leaders of 14 factions, including President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement and the Islamist group Hamas, held two days of talks in the run-up to …