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By Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Angela Merkel began trying to persuade her center-left rivals to keep her in power on Monday after her conservatives notched up their best election result in more than two decades but fell short of an absolute majority. Even the chancellor's political foes acknowledged she was the big winner of the first German vote since the euro crisis began in 2010, which thrust the pastor's daughter from East Germany into the role of Europe's dominant leader. But despite leading her conservatives to their best result since 1990, with 41. ...More...