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Vessel runs aground, briefly blocking Suez Canal

Satellite image from Maxar Technologies showing the cargo ship MV Ever Given when it was stuck in the Suez Canal near Suez, Egypt, March 26, 2021. [AP Photo}

An oil tanker ran aground Wednesday in Egypt's Suez Canal, briefly blocking traffic in the global waterway before it was freed, the canal's authority said.

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