Egypt and France began Sunday joint manoeuvres in the Mediterranean in which French Rafale warplanes purchased by Cairo last year are taking part, the Egyptian army said.
Four times as many US troops as originally planned are to take part in a joint military exercise with South Korea next month following nuclear and missile tests by the North, Seoul said yesterday.
A zebra “escaped” from its enclosure in a Japanese zoo yesterday, giving one zookeeper a heart attack and injuring another – at least that was the scenario of a drill aimed at dealing with runaway animals.