Suez Canal

...35 vessels hijacked and 587 crew taken hostage. Nearly 20,000 ships pass through the Gulf of Aden each year, heading to and from the Suez Canal. Reporting by Helen Nyambura-Mwaura in Nairobi, Mohamed Ahmed in Haradheere and Renee...

In this article: Yemen and Coal

...Nile to satisfy the whims of Europe's new middle classes. And its downtown was remodelled in the image of Paris for the opening of the Suez Canal, with boulevards filling at night with parties and foreign blow-ins. "Cairo is of course the...

In this article: Egypt, Nile, Cairo, Luxor, Herodotus, Tutankhamun, Howard Carter, Johann Burckhardt, Giza, and Aswan

...the founding of Israel, the break-up of empires, the boom in oil and the national challenges to cozy post-imperial arrangements like the Suez Canal defined Arabs as a western problem. After 9/11, they were perhaps the most pressing problem of...

In this article: Islam, Nationalism, David Ben-Gurion, Middle East, Palestine, Muslim Brotherhood, and Egypt

...there has not been a successful hijacking since July in the Gulf of Aden, the corridor between Yemen and Somalia which leads to the Suez Canal. That is of enormous importance, since 20% of the world's shipping travels this way. 'Tiny...

In this article: EU and Somalia

...conquest of the Americas but it wasn't until 1881 that a French team led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, the famed builder of the Suez Canal, launched an ill-fated attempt to cut a sea-level canal through Panama. The effort was a failure and...

In this article: Panama, United States, Panama Canal, Caribbean, Malaria, Yellow fever, and Asia

...with 35 vessels hijacked and 587 crew taken hostage . Nearly 20,000 ships pass through the Gulf of Aden each year, heading to and from the Suez Canal. Sources: Reuters/Ecoterra International/International Maritime Bureau Piracy Reporting...

In this article: Seychelles, Madagascar, Coal, and Somalia

The famed Suez Canal opened exactly 140 years ago today, connecting the shipping routes of the Mediterranean and the Red seas. The proposed canal across the Isthmus of Suez got a key boost when Ferdinand de Lesseps, the former French...

In this article: Egypt, Israel, Suez Canal Co., United Nations, Nile River, Great Britain, and Cairo

...partially completed Capitol building. In 1558, Elizabeth I acceded to the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary. In 1869, the Suez Canal opened in Egypt. In 1934, Lyndon Baines Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as...

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Today is International Day of Tolerance, according to the United Nations. Tuesday 17 On this day in 1869, the Suez Canal opened, connecting Europe and Asia by a waterway. On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave his famous...

In this article: United Nations, Ella Fitzgerald, John F. Kennedy, Asia, Europe, and New York

...in Iran. It sailed on Oct. 14, docking at Dubai's Jabel Ali on Oct. 18, after which it wound its way through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, reaching Damietta port Monday, Oct. 26. Our sources stress that the containers and their hidden...

In this article: Hizballah, Iran, Damietta, Beirut, and Polyethylene