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A cycle rickshaw driver waits for customers near a poster of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during a 48-hour general strike called by the opposition to protest Sunday’s election, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League won one of the most violent elections in the country’s history, marred by street fighting, low turnout and a boycott by the opposition that made the results a foregone conclusion. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)