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Morning re-cap of main news, May 5

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* An airliner with 344 passengers on board had one of its wings damaged as it collided with a hoister in Moscow's Vnukovo airport, but no one was injured in the collision

* The daughter of Kyrgyzstan's ousted president Askar Akayev was put under house arrest in the capital Bishkek for her alleged role in recent public disorders sparked by a court's decision to bar her from running for parliament

* Police in Moscow said they had detained 14 people for attempts to hold an unauthorized cannabis culture parade, timed to coincide with the Global Marijuana March

* Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov praised the level of troops' preparedness for this year's VE Day parade in Moscow after he attended a dress rehearsal

* Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said Russia owes his country an apology in the dispute over the removal of a Red Army monument and a war grave in the capital Tallinn

* The leader of a major "orange" revolution party in Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, said her bloc's faction is willing to return to the legislature after a walkout and work on anti-crisis laws following a deal on early elections reached Friday by the country's president and prime minister

* Thousands of activists ended their month-long protests in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, as an ad hoc group began working out details of an early vote agreed upon by President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych as part of a compromise deal to bring the country out of a political crisis

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