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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has scored a decisive election victory to win a sixth term, the country’s election commission said on Saturday, but his main rival Bobi Wine denounced the results as fraudulent and urged citizens to reject them. The 76-year-old Museveni, in power since 1986 and one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, dismissed the allegations of fraud in an evening address to the nation, saying Thursday’s election may turn out to be the “most cheating free” in Uganda’s history. The Electoral Commission said final counts showed Museveni won 5.85 million votes, or 58.6%, while Wine had 3.48 million votes (34.8%)....

Soldiers at the Erez Checkpoint blocked National Union Party activists today from entering the Gaza Strip to distribute Arabic-language leaflets outlining their right-wing views. However, party lawmakers did succeed in handing out copies of the eight page brochure at the IDF checkpoint in Bethlehem, and in the Israeli-Arab town of Umm el-Fahm in Galilee. The booklet contains statistics and articles about the "corrupt" Palestinian Authority. Party leader Avigdor Lieberman initiated the idea, saying he was inspired by the US army's airdrop of leaflets in Afghanistan prior to their incursion into that country.