Suez, Egypt (AP) – Two additional tugboats were heading to Egypt’s Suez Canal on Sunday in an effort to free a skyscraper-shaped vessel stranded for days on a crucial waterway, though larger ships could take their boat out of the wreck. Is. Even longer to free. The Panama-flag-waving Evergave, owned …
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Suez, Egypt (AP) – A huge container ship got stuck in Egypt’s Suez Canal on Saturday for the fifth day in a row as authorities prepare to free the ship and reopen the crucial East-West waterway for new global shipping. Evergave the Panama-flagged cargo ship between Asia and Europe on …
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TAHTA, Egypt (AP) – Two trains crashed in southern Egypt on Friday, killing at least 32 people and injuring 165, officials said, citing a series of fatal accidents on the country’s troubled railways. Someone apparently activated the emergency brakes in the passenger train, and it was later overturned by another …
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – A huge cargo ship capsized in Egypt’s Suez Canal, blocking traffic on a crucial east-west waterway for global shipping, according to satellite data. The Panama-flagged container ship, MV Ever Given, with a listed owner in Japan, closed to traffic on Tuesday on a narrow …
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Cairo (AP) – An Egyptian criminal court has stripped an elderly Coptic Christian woman naked on the streets of a village in southern Egypt in Muslim 2016 and acquitted three Muslim men accused of marrying her, the state’s official news agency said. The trio were sentenced in January to 10 …
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