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US wants Bangladeshi parties to end election row

Quick ReadUS wants Bangladeshi leaders to resolve disputes over next elections, due in 2014

(AP) -- A U.S. diplomat visiting Bangladesh on Thursday urged the nation's bickering political parties to resolve how to hold the next national elections due in 2014.

The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last year annulled a 15-year-old policy of having a nonpartisan caretaker run the country during an election period, and rivals say her political party did so to rig the election.

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