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It's Monday, welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right. Let's get briefed. First up, an embarrassing moment for Venezuela's Navy. A Venezuelan warship has partially sunk during training drills off the country's northern coast,

just as Nicholas Maduro orders civilians to prepare for war.

Hmm.

We'll explain how a botched exercise exposed the regime's somewhat shaky military readiness.

Later in the show, the Khoutis are back, remember them, and this time they're targeting the

UN. The Iranian-backed group detained two dozen UN employees, part of a growing campaign of

intimidation inside areas that they control. But first, today's afternoon spotlight.

An effort to project power went sideways for the Maduro regime.

An amphibious transport ship from the Venezuelan Navy partially sank during a coastal training

exercise off the country's northern coast. The vessel, known as the Kapana, began taking on water

near the town of Kumare Rebo in Falcon State,

listing sharply forward as its bow slipped beneath the surface.

Photos shared on social media, where else,

show the decades-old warship nearly half submerged.

According to reports gathered by the outlet Info Bay,

the ship ran aground during a coastal maneuver, flooding its forward compartment

and losing buoyancy, which, as you know, is a key part of any boat. It's good for a boat

to be buoyant. Observer said the hull may have suffered structural damage significant enough

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