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Main News of May 26

19:55 GMT 26.05.2013

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on Sunday Damascus will attend next month’s peace conference in Geneva aimed at helping resolve the country's crisis

* A love story about two young women, La Vie d'Adele, by French director Abdellatif Kechiche has won the Palme d'Or for best film at the Cannes Film Festival

* A court of appeals in the West Georgian city of Kutaisi turned down an appeal from former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili, charged with corruption and abuse of office, and ruled to keep him in custody

* An Airbus A319 carrying Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas has landed safely in Moscow after pilots found a crack in the cockpit outer window while in the air, the Czech News Agency reported

* Estonia completed on Saturday large-scale military drills, which began on May 9 and involved some 5,000 military personnel, including from NATO allies, the General Staff of the Estonian Defense Forces said

* A 48-year-old shepherd from the village of Vrba in the southeast of Bosnia and Herzegovina strangled a brown bear barehanded after the wild animal attacked him, Bosnian television reported

*Heavily armed Maoist rebels killed 17 people, including 12 local congressmen, and wounded over 20 in an ambush on a convoy in the eastern Indian province of Chhattisgarh, IndianExpress.com news portal reported

* Seven people were killed and 12 injured in a landslide in northwest China's Shaanxi Province on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported citing local authorities

* Some 150,000 people gathered in Paris on Sunday to take part in a rally against the country’s new gay marriage law, local police said

* North Korea condemned on Sunday the US recent ballistic missile test, slamming it as “military provocation,” the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported

* Iran has deployed “large numbers” of new long-range missile launchers, Iranian semi-official news agency Fars reported

* Kyrgyzstan’s government has approved an agreement between Bishkek and Moscow on the sale of the country’s national gas company to Russian energy giant Gazprom, a Kyrgyz government spokesman said

RUSSIA

* Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said dismissals are quite possible amid criticism of the Cabinet’s work and has instructed his ministers to work hard

* Police have released all participants of an unsanctioned gay pride rally detained in the Russian capital on Saturday, the Moscow Interior Department said

* Three people who were hurt in a suicide bomb attack in Russia’s turbulent region of Dagestan have been taken to Moscow clinics, two of them in a grave condition, the Health Ministry said

* A young woman died and her baby was injured after a dump truck smashed into a house in the Perm Region in the Urals, the local Interior Department said

* Three people were killed on Sunday when a small single-engine plane crashed in the Krasnodar region, in south Russia, the Emergency Situations Ministry has said

SPORT

* Russian Premier League champions CSKA Moscow ended their season on a low note Sunday with a 3-0 defeat to relegation candidates FC Rostov

* FC Kuban will play in Europe for the first time next season after qualifying for the Europa League with a 1-0 defeat of Anzhi Makhachkala on Sunday

* Former Anzhi Makhachkala manager Yuri Krasnozhan will take charge at Terek Grozny this summer, Chechnya’s regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Sunday in a sharply worded Instagram statement full of criticism for the team's old coach

* FC Kuban was named Russia most attended football team for the second season running Sunday after boasting sell-out crowds for many games