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Ukrainian security forces have started moving inagainst opposition parties and anti-governmentprotesters, there have been reports of cyber attackson media outlets. The US Vice President Joe Bidenhas called President Viktor Yanukovych to express his deep concern about the growingpotential for violence. Mr. Yanukovych earlier said he was ready to start talks with the pro-European opposition. Steve Rosenberg is in Kiev.

According to a spokesperson for the Fatherland Party, armed men in masks broke into theorganization's headquarters; they reportedly ceased computer service before leaving thebuilding. Fatherland is the party of the jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko, and it'sbeen at the forefront of the anti-government protests. There were far more police in the citycenter, a sign that Ukrainian authorities are trying to restore their control.

Reports from Moscow say a number of high-profile detainees could be included in an amnestythat will coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Russian Constitution. Daniel Sanford reportsfrom Moscow.

The amnesty under which over 20,000 people could be cleared of minor crimes has beenannounced to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Russian Constitution. President Putinhas put drafted proposals before the Duma, the parliament and they are expected to be passedbefore the end of the year. Izvestia, a newspaper with strong links to the Kremlin now claimsthe announce as a yet unconfirmed report that among those who will be freed are the twowomen from the punk group Pussy Riot who were controversially jailed last year for dancing andsinging a political protest song in a Moscow Cathedral.

The US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has announced that America will provide logisticalsupport to the French-led operation to stop the spread of the sectarian violence in the CentralAfrican Republic. He's approved a request from France to use US military transport planes totake troops from Burundi to work alongside African peacekeepers. The French force and theCentral African Republic has begun to summon in militia groups and it briefly came under fire inthe capital Bangui.

South African government has released the list of who will speak on Tuesday's memorialservice for Nelson Mandela. From Johannesburg Mike Wooldridge has this report.

President Obama will give the first of the leaders' tributes to Nelson Mandela; other tributes willbe given by the presidents of Brazil, Namibia, India and Cuba, and Vice President Li Yuanchao ofChina. The list will seem to be designed to represent along the line of foreign policy stance ofthe new South Africa, and the gratitude for Cuba's historic support of liberation movements inAfrica. Nelson Mandela's grandchildren will also pay public tribute to him as well as fellow RobinIsland prisoner Andrew Mlangeni, one of his closest friends and most faithful visitors until theend of his life. Mike Wooldridge reporting.

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The Iranian Foreign Minister has warned that the recent breakthrough deal on his country'snuclear program would be at risk if the US Congress imposes new sanctions. In an interviewwith Time Magazine, Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran didn't like to negotiate under duress andthe entire deal would be dead even if any new sanctions were not put into effect for six months.

Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear agency had visited in Libya this month to check itsstockpile of uranium amid concerns about the deteriorating security situation. The UN specialrepresentative to Libya Tarek Mitri told the Security Council that 6,400 barrels of processeduranium ore, known as 'yellow cake' were stored at a former military base in the south of thecountry under the control of an army battalion. Mr. Mitri said inspectors from the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency would verify the stockpiles and the conditions of the storage.

A collection of native American masks has been sold at an auction house in France, despiteprotests from activists and an appeal from the United States. The Hopi tribes say the maskswhich were taken illegally from a reservation in Arizona represent their ancestors' spirits andshould not be sold as merchandise. A French lawyer for the Hopi tribe, Pierre Servan-Schreibersaid the sale was yet another act against Native Americans.

I'm convinced that eventually the people of France, including the auctioneers and collectorswill realize that they simply can't do that to our people; you cannot after having massacredthem two centuries ago, after having parted them in reservations one century ago, after havingpretty much deprived them of the right to work normally last century, denied to have deprivedthem of what is at the heart of their culture. At some point, this is gotta stop. The auctionwhich is the second this year raised $1.6m.

Those are the latest stories from BBC News.