Dozens escape prison in African state
Around 47 inmates have escaped from a maximum-security prison in Liberia’s Margibi County, near the capital, Monrovia, the West African nation’s justice ministry reported on Monday. The incident at the Kakata Central Prison occurred over the weekend, and according to preliminary investigations, it was due to a breach in the facility’s security system, the ministry […]
North Korea building new naval base
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has visited the construction site of a new “modern naval base” and has pledged to further develop the country’s maritime forces. The new facility’s location would give Pyongyang a strategic advantage, he said. Late last year, Kim ordered North Korea’s military and arms-manufacturing industry to “further accelerate war preparations” in the face of what […]
NATO paratroopers land on electricity wires
Around a dozen Polish soldiers descended on a local village during a botched airborne exercise on Monday, just days after NATO praised paratroopers as a “strategic asset” of the US-led military bloc. The paratroopers from the 2nd Reconnaissance Regiment based in Hrubieszow were conducting a “scheduled” parachute training exercise when a sudden change in wind speed and direction forced […]