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A close 'friend of Kenya' has won a US Senate seat in hotly contested mid-term elections. The Monday elections were held in many states. Mr Chris Coons, a Democrat, easily beat Republican Christine O’Donnell for the Delaware Senate seat. US Vice-President Joe Biden formerly held the seat for decades. Coons, whose connections with Kenya nearly cost him victory when his opponents questioned his commitment to the US, said his Kenyan experience helped shape his political views. "In many ways, Kenya made me who I am. What I saw in the slums of Mathare and Kibera on one hand and Karen...