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    BOSTON (WBZ) — Tall ships located in Boston Harbor for Sail Boston 2026 are causing delays and cancellations at Logan Airport.

Around 227 flights had been delayed at Logan Airport as of 12 p.m. on Saturday, according to FlightAware. Eight flights had been canceled as well.

The delays and cancellations are being caused by the Parade of Sail, which began at 9 a.m. on Saturday and kicked off the five-day Sail Boston 2026 event. Sail Boston 2026 is bringing more than 60 ships from around 20 countries to Boston from July 11 to July 16, with some offering opportunities to board the historic vessels.

The parade, led by the U.S.S. Constitution, passed Castle Island in South Boston around 10 a.m. and is expected to end around 3 p.m.

Massport said that some of the ships participating in the parade are passing underneath the landing path for some of the runways at Logan.

“With some of the ships the masts would be too tall and potentially interfere with planes landing,” a spokesperson for Massport said in a statement.

Air traffic control is having planes land using a “different configuration which handles less planes an hour.”

It is unclear how long the parade will impact flights.

Massport also said there is an issue with Logan Airport’s fuel supply system located outside the airport, but they are asking incoming planes to bring extra to “alleviate some of the pressure.”

“Logan is fully operational and has fuel,” the spokesperson said.

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Suspect in Berlin ramming attack shot and killed by police, authorities say

The 21-year-old man convicted in 2025 of trying to join ISIS and accused of ramming his rented vehicle into the Berlin LGBTQ+ Pride parade was killed by police on Sunday, a senior police official in Germany told CBS News.The official said the suspect charged towards police with a knife and officers opened fire, shooting the suspect. Police later said that the confrontation happened at a garden colony in the suburb of Spandau. He died at the scene.Germany's interior minister identified the suspect as 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots. Police described him as being part of Berlin's "Islamist scene" and someone who was known to authorities.Earlier Sunday, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said that "everything we see here points to us dealing with an Islamic terror attack." Dobrindt said Ballout was born in Germany and that his mother was naturalized in 2002, three years before he was born. He said the suspect had been convicted in Berlin in the past.Berlin prosecutors said Ballout shared ISIS propaganda on Instagram in 2024 and the following year traveled to Lebanon "with the intention of proceeding from there to Syria to join ISIS." However, he was arrested and sentenced to three months in prison. He returned to Germany in November 2025 and he was arrested in May for "preparing a serious act of subversive violence," prosecutors said.He was sentenced to a year and ten months in jail, but this was suspended, partially in recognition of the time he had spent in jail in Lebanon and pre-trial detention, and partially because he admitted to the crimes and distanced himself from ISIS, prosecutors said. In a separate investigation in July 2026, police launched a search at Ballout's home in Berlin-Schöneberg prompted by an initial suspicion of a violation of Germany's Weapons Act. However, only a toy gun was found during the search and the case was subsequently dismissed.Police said they believe Ballout rented the vehicle used in the attack, but it remains unclear if he was the driver. He was described as being of slim build, about 6 feet 3 inches tall, with black hair and wearing a black hoodie with white pants.Police officers stand near a vehicle crashed into a tree after driving into a crowd near Berlin's annual Pride event, in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, July 26, 2026.  Markus Schreiber via AP Authorities are also working to determine if Ballout acted alone. Investigators believe that one or more people may have left the vehicle after it came to a stop. Some victims also suffered stab wounds, raising the possibility that others were involved in the attack, but authorities have not confirmed that. Dobrindt said the suspect is believed to have injured people with a machete.A man with Iranian citizenship was arrested after the attack, but police have not confirmed any involvement in the attack, the AP reported earlier Sunday.Chancellor Friedrich Merz had vowed that law enforcement would find the suspect."I would like to say this to Christopher Street Day participants here in Berlin but also across Germany: Don't let yourselves, let us not let ourselves, be intimidated," he said Sunday. "These acts have only one purpose: They aim to divide our society. They want to take away from us the most important thing we have: Namely our openness and our freedom."Berlin's fire service said that of the injured, three have life-threatening injuries, eight were seriously injured, and five had slight injuries. Police have not identified the victim who was killed. Bouquets, candles and Berlin bears are placed in front of the landmark Brandenburg Gate one day after the car ramming attack on people on the outskirts of Berlin's Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade on late July 25, 2026.
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