Main News of October 28

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Edward Nalbandian and other officials have met in Paris to discuss the conflict over breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.

*About 30 people were killed and some 100 wounded in shootings and bombings near Iraq’s capital Baghdad and elsewhere in the country, the Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera quoted officials as saying.

*A magnitude 7.7 earthquake has hit Canada’s British Columbia province, the US Geological Survey reported.

*A group of Russian military observers begin on Sunday a four-day inspection mission in the skies of France under the Open Skies Treaty, the Defense Ministry’s press office reported.

*Ukrainians vote on Sunday in a key parliamentary election seen as a popularity test for President Viktor Yanukovych and his Party of Regions amid growing criticism at home and abroad over his policies.

*India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday appointed former Law Minister Salman Khurshid as a new Foreign Minister, Indian News Agency IANS reported.

RUSSIA

* A Russian vessel with 11 crewmembers went missing in the Sea of Okhotsk on Sunday, the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Sea Rescue Coordination Center reported.