The trial of two former French spies suspected of sharing secrets with China opened in a Paris criminal court Monday, behind closed doors for reasons of national security. Identified only as Pierre-Marie H., 69, and Henri M., 73, both were counter-intelligence agents with France’s DGSE foreign intelligence service in the 1990s. While the charge sheet […]

Madagascar has placed one of its main regions, which covers the capital, Antananarivo, back under a strict lockdown following a surge in Coronavirus infections. The government announced that the lockdown would come into effect on Monday and end on 20 July. It will include a ban on traffic in and out of the region and […]

Authorities in China’s northern Inner Mongolia region have stepped up precautions after a herdsman was confirmed at the weekend to have the bubonic plague. The man infected by the bubonic plague was in stable condition at a hospital in Bayannur, China, the city health commission said in a statement. The commission has forbidden the hunting […]

 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 found him guilty of illegally owning protected areas with special licenses. READ ALSO: Remembering the Korean War with music, films The court said that Erdenebat […]

Malawi’s president Lazarus Chakwera on Sunday called off planned independence celebrations and drastically scaled back on his inauguration ceremony following a spike in coronavirus infections in the southern African country. The cancellation of the Malawi’s independence celebration will put a dampener on the euphoria generated by the historic opposition triumph in a recent landmark election […]