Mongolia

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) has given 19 reindeer as a New Year’s present to the Dukha Turks, who live in the northern-most part of Mongolia.

The Dukha Turks, who live in the province of Khövsgöl in Mongolia, which is about 700 kilometers from the country’s capital Ulan Bator, received 19 reindeer as a New Year’s present from TİKA.

A Chinese teenager executed after being convicted of murder and rape 18 years ago was declared innocent by a court Dec. 15, in a rare overturning of a wrongful conviction.
     

BELGRADE - A team of the Belgrade Mathematical Grammar School has finished as runner-up at a traditional all-around competition in Moscow.

In individual standings (total points from three events), the mathematicians of the Belgrade school took one silver and two bronze medals.

Putin reveals "7-point plan" for ceasefire in Ukraine

MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has presented a 7-point plan to cease hostilities in Ukraine.

The plan was announced after his telephone conversation with Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko earlier in the day on Wednesday.

Team Dracula Khan have crossed the finish line in Ulan Bator of the Mongol Rally, the world's largest charity rally, the team reported on Friday on their official Facebook page.

The members that reached the finish line of the rally in Ulan Bator, after driving 16,601 km, are manager Radu Manea, 40; architect Ovidiu Niculica, 47and architect Razvan Mosneag, 38.

Team Dracula Khan, running in the Mongol Rally - the event known as the world's largest charity rally - on Monday evening arrived in Mongolia and sped up for Ulan Bator, the terminus of the adventure, the team reports on their Facebook page.

The two teams that left Romania in the Mongol Rally - Mamaliga (Polenta) Warriors and Dracula Khan - this weekend reached Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan, respectively, and their journey included a visit to a body shop in Georgia, meeting other teams in the rally, continual driving to the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan for 36 hours and a lunch served in a yurt.

The two teams that left from Romania in the Mongol Rally adventure, which ends around August 30 in Ulan Bator, arrived in Asia at the end of July.

Nearly 300 small-capacity cars and their teams of various nationalities competing in the Mongol Rally, the world's largest charity rally, on Friday evening parked around the Ancora terrace of Vama Veche, at the second Romanian checkpoint of the whacky rally.

Paul Budan, one of the organisers of the event, briefly explained the rules of the competition.

Romania's two teams that have left the country to embark on the Mongol Rally adventure - Dracula Khan and Mamaliga (Polenta) Warriors- on Tuesday evening reunited in Klenova, the Czech Republic, at a party extended before the second start in the world's largest charity rally.