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Incident causes long line of cargo ships and tankers waiting to transit vital Egyptian canal

A giant boxship ran aground in the Suez Canal, blocking all vessel traffic and creating a backlog on one of the world’s busiest trade routes.

JERUSALEM — Israeli parliamentary elections on Tuesday resulted in a virtual deadlock for a fourth time in the past two years, exit polls indicated, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an uncertain future and the country facing the prospect of

Amid low turnout party had feared election disaster; crowd cheers as rival Ra’am’s predicted to fail to pass election threshold, although others lament ‘lost Arab votes’

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — Searchers recovered at least 15 charred bodies after a devastating fire destroyed thousands of shelters at a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, officials said Tuesday. At least 400 people were still missing and around 560

Prime minister dramatically beat back the threat from rightist rebels. Yet nothing he did, not the vaccines, not the peace agreements, could deliver a win at the ballot box

Boulder shootings: suspect allegedly bought assault rifle after ban on sale was blocked  The Guardian 10 killed in supermarket shooting in Boulder, Colorado | WNT  ABC News Biden Says FBI, DOJ Investigation of Boulder, Colorado Shooting Is ‘Ongoing’  Bloomberg Quicktake: Now Editorial: Chaos

Manchin opposes House gun safety bills, underscoring Democratic divide over gun control  CNN Biden Urges Action on Gun Control After 2 Mass Shootings in Less Than a Week  The New York Times Sen. Grassley highlights gun ownership diversity in hearing  New York Post

Variety’s Ramin Setoodeh to Write Book About Donald Trump’s ‘The Apprentice’  Variety

Bernie Sanders Questions Twitter’s Ban on Donald Trump  New York Magazine