Bab el-Mandeb, at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, is the gateway to the Red Sea through which around 12% of the world’s trade usually passes. A fourth of global container trade transits through the 32-kilometer (20-mile)-wide strait to and from the Suez Canal. The Houthis earlier demonstrated their ability to disrupt shipping there when they targeted ships for months over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, with over 100 vessels attacked. (AP video shot by Bassam Hatoum)
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Pastor Marcus L. Martin felt instant trepidation when he saw five adults wading hip- and waist-deep in the Scioto River last weekend. He took a photo that may be the last portrait of a group of friends who drowned that day.
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