Main news of October 29

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Major European banks have revealed approximate costs of their proposed recapitalization under new European requirements, introduced to secure banks if the debt crisis worsens

* Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office will probe the possible involvement of ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the 1996 killing of a lawmaker

* At least 10 people have been injured in a suicide attack in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast

* The position of the Arab League, which has called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop killing civilians, is constructive, a senior Russian lawmaker said

* The number of those injured in Friday's 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Peru has reached 83

 

RUSSIA

* The Russian ruble is a stable currency and has the same level of risks as euro, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said

* Two children have been killed and 14 others injured in a four-car crash in the Russian Volga city of Saratov