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A Venezuelan prosecutor says he has fled the country with his family, accusing the leftist government of using "false evidence" to convict jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. Franklin Nieves made the accusations in a video posted Saturday on YouTube, in a blow to the leftist government of President Nicolas Maduro just weeks before crucial December 6 legislative elections. Protesters and government security forces clashed in the streets of major Venezuelan cities through June of last year, leaving a toll of 43 dead before they were finally suppressed. http://dlvr.it/CY8qh2

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and opposition coalition representatives agreed to hold talks on ending two months of anti-government protests that have left 39 people dead in their oil-rich nation. Since early February, 39 people have died in clashes between security forces and protesters angered by soaring crime, high inflation and shortages of such basic goods as toilet paper, which they blame on the socialist government led by Maduro. Maduro held preliminary talks Tuesday with the opposition coalition Democratic Unity Roundtable, or MUD by its initials in Spanish. But even as he agreed to talks and said he wanted peace, the populist leftist successor to Hugo Chavez warned there would be no change to his socialist model of government. Source: AFP