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| Ukrainian President Yanukovych agrees early election | |
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| Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has agreed to hold a presidential election before the end of the year, as part of a deal to end the crisis. | |
| He said he had also agreed to a national unity government, and to make constitutional changes reducing the power of the president. | |
| The compromise came after hours of talks with the opposition leaders. | |
| The opposition has not spoken about the deal and it remains unclear whether protesters will back it. | |
| The German and Polish foreign ministers, who mediated the talks in Kiev, are now on their way to talk to protesters in Kiev's Independence Square. | |
| "Delicate moment over agreement on the settlement of the crisis. All sides need to remember that compromise means getting less than 100%," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said. | |
| Ukrainian broadcaster ICTV said it had seen a copy of the deal, and it had been signed by all parties. | |
| According to the report, the deal contains: | |
| Protesters and police are still locked in a stand-off in Kiev, a day after dozens were killed in violent clashes. | |
| Isolated outbursts of violence were reported in central Kiev on Friday morning. | |
| The police said they had traded gunfire with protesters, and Ukrainian media said riot police were patrolling inside parliament during a session. | |
| MPs once again began their session with scuffles, as the speaker tried to adjourn a debate concerning constitutional changes. | |
| The protests first erupted in late November when President Yanukovych rejected a landmark association and trade deal with the EU in favour of closer ties with Russia. | |
| Thursday was the bloodiest day since the unrest began. | |
| Police opened fire after protesters tried to push them away from the makeshift camps they have been occupying in central Kiev. | |
| The health ministry said 77 people had been killed since Tuesday, and another 577 were injured. | |
| But activists suggested the death toll was likely to be much higher. |