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By Maria Tsvetkova SUKHUMI Georgia (Reuters) - Opposition leaders said on Friday they now held power in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, despite President Alexander Ankvab's refusal to quit after protesters stormed his headquarters. The opposition formed a Provisional National Council in the Russian-backed province after protesters angered by alleged corruption and misrule broke into the presidential administration building in the main city, Sukhumi, on Tuesday. Asked who now held power, opposition leader Raul Khadzhimba told Reuters in the presidential building: "The Provisional National Council." "We are working to create the conditions for ministries and other departments to work in peace," he said. Source: Reuters

Syrian warplanes on Sunday launched a fierce offensive against a string of opposition bastions on the edges of the capital, including the besieged Eastern Ghouta area, a monitoring group said. "Warplanes carried out two air strikes against areas of Douma" northeast of Damascus, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, adding that "at least five people including one child were killed and several others injured". One of the strikes on Douma, an opposition stronghold since early in the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, hit a crowded marketplace, said the Syrian Revolution General Commission, a network of activists on the ground. Douma and other towns and villages in Eastern Ghouta have been under army siege for a year. Source: AFP

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