Attacks launched by Yemen’s Houthi group on commercial ships at the southern end of the Red Sea have prompted several shipping companies to divert vessels, avoiding a route that would take them through Egypt’s Suez Canal in the north and its link to the Mediterranean Sea. The Iran-aligned group says the aim of the attacks […]
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4 juveniles seriously injured when SUV crashes into a canal ditch in Socorro
Four juveniles were seriously injured Saturday night when an SUV driven by one of the juveniles crashed into a canal ditch in Socorro, officials said. The driver of a maroon Nissan Pathfinder was heading east on North Loop Drive when the SUV veered off the road and into a canal ditch near Bauman Road, the […]
I’d never fall into a Venice canal taking selfies – all mine are done in secret | Sophie Heawood
I mean, I’ll just come out and say it: it’s pretty tempting to laugh out loud at the tourists who fell off their gondola into the canal in Venice last week because they just wouldn’t stop taking selfies. Their gondolier had apparently asked them to sit down and quit all that dangerous posing, but they […]
Cargo ship breaks down, hits bridge in Suez Canal
A cargo ship broke down in Egypt’s Suez Canal on Wednesday and crashed into a bridge over the crucial waterway, authorities said, adding that the incident did not disrupt canal traffic. The Singapore-flagged One Orpheus went off course after its rudder broke down before ploughing into the Mansi Bridge, near the port city of Ismailia, […]