North Korea's Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Pak Myong Ho held talks in Mongolia with his counterpart Amartuvshin Gombosuren on Monday, Mongolia's foreign ministry said
Germany and Mongolia are entering into a strategic partnership, as both countries want to work more closely on a number of policy areas including in the mining industry
At least six people were killed including three firefighters after a truck carrying 60 tons of liquefied natural gas exploded in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar on Wednesday
In an unprecedented event, Pope Francis and just about the entire Catholic population of a country were in the same room on Sunday when he presided at a Mass in Mongolia's capital.
Vietnamese Catholics who flew thousands of miles to see Pope Francis in Mongolia had one message for the pontiff: They want him to visit their communist-run country too.
Visiting places where Catholics are a minority is part of Francis' policy of drawing attention to people and problems in what he has called the peripheries of society and the world.
