After a long journey from Babylon, through Israel, Jordan, and the Red Sea—before the Suez Canal was even dug—they arrived in Southern Sudan, in a place called ‘Barakase,’ now Bahr-el-Ghazal.

The latest came Tuesday when the world’s largest money manager announced that a BlackRock-led investment coalition would take control of two key ports on either end of the Panama Canal for the ...

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Panama maintains that it has full control over the canal and that the Hong Kong-based group’s operation of the ports did not amount to Chinese control over the waterway, and that therefore the ...

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Until recently, attacks on shipping in the Red Sea by the Houthis, following Israel’s attack on Gaza, killed off Egypt’s Suez Canal revenues—a key source of foreign income. Gas from Zohr, and other ...

The Egyptian FM, Mr. Abdelatty, is also expected to discuss the project, although officials said the Egyptian government had been unhappy with the IMEC announcement, as they saw it as a geopolitical ...

(AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) Containers are stacked on a cargo ship moving through the Panama Canal’s Cocoli locks in Panama City, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) A cargo ship ...

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