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.
*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.