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The United States on Wednesday criticised Ukraine over the standards of the weekend's local elections, saying they had not lived up to the example set by presidential polls earlier this year. Results have yet to be published nationwide but exit polls showed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's ruling party set to sweep the local elections. "Preliminary reports from election monitors suggest that Ukraine's Oct. 31 local elections did not meet standards for openness and fairness set by the presidential elections earlier this year," the U.S. embassy in Kyiv said. Read the story here.