Main news of November 22

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Mediators reported progress on the Nagorny Karabakh settlement as Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan exchanged opinions on the issue at a meeting in Munich on Sunday

* The death toll in a coal mine explosion in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province has risen to 92, Xinhua reported Sunday

* Iran launched a large-scale air-defense exercise to protect its nuclear plants against any attack, local media reported

* At least seven people were killed and over 50 wounded in two bomb blasts in India's troubled north-eastern state of Assam, police said

* The U.S. Senate has voted to hold a full-scale debate on Barack Obama's overhaul health care reform bill, moving forward the president's top domestic initiative

RUSSIA

* Well-known spaceship designer and one of the Soviet Union's first cosmonauts, Konstantin Feoktistov, has died at 83 in Moscow, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said

* Hundreds of people came on Sunday to a southern Moscow church to pay their last respects to a well-known Russian Orthodox priest who was recently murdered

* Police have freed the abducted son of the mayor of the town of Buinaksk in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, Russia's Investigative Committee said