Tag: Mongolia
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Putin ‘not worried’ about being arrested in Mongolia next week
Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to travel abroad in spite of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes in Ukraine. Putin is due to visit Mongolia on Tuesday, Sept. 3. Russia’s neighbour recognises the court’s authority and so is technically
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Ex-PM sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for abuse of power
A Court in Mongolia’s capital Ulan Bator, sentenced Former Prime Minister Jargaltulga Erdenebat on Monday to six years imprisonment for abuse of power. A criminal court in the Sukhbaatar district of found him guilty of illegally owning protected areas with special licenses. The court said that Erdenebat also gave privileges to a mining company by…
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FUTA, partners launch satellite, NigeriaEdusat-1 into space
At Exactly 10:07 a.m. on Saturday, the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, made history when the SpaceX Falcon9 Rocket launched Birds 1 satellites, comprising 5 CubeSats belonging to Japan, Ghana, Mongolia, Nigeria and Bangladesh, into Space from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. The Nigerian CubeSat, code name NigeriaEdusat-1, is designed, built and owned…