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Sandwiched between China and Russia, landlocked Mongolia has long tread a middle path, maintaining a balance between Moscow and Beijing while referring to the U.S. and other remote allies as “third neighbors.”

Mongolia’s re-elected President Tsakhia Elbegdorj was sworn in Wednesday, promising rapid development amid a resources boom.

Japan and North Korea began talks Thursday in Mongolia that Tokyo hopes will shed light on decades-old abductions.

The wife of a long-imprisoned ethnic Mongolian activist in China said Monday that she has spent nearly two years in detention and house arrest on a fabricated charge to silence her family, and that her husband is suffering from depression.

It was lunchtime on the steppe in Mongolia, the most sparsely populated country on Earth. So when our driver spotted a lone white yurt in the distance, we stopped for a jug of hot sheep’s milk tea.

Scores of police arrested Mongolia’s former president, raiding a house in the capital at dawn Friday after he refused investigators’ summons to answer questions about corruption charges, law enforcement officials said.

Cola-Cola Co. said Wednesday it found an unapproved fungicide in orange juice made by Coke and its competitors, and alerted federal regulators that some Brazilian growers had sprayed trees with the substance.