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Talks between Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovich and opposition leaders have failed to resolve a tense political crisis, amid increasingly dire warnings on the nation’s fate.

Hundreds of thousands of people from across the sharply divided country are expected to flock to rival rallies in Kiev over the weekend, with demonstrations supporting and opposing Mr Yanukovich taking place a few hundred metres apart in the capital.

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