810 --- PAGE BREAK --- Yemen in crisis: a new global choke-point? -13 percent of world’s oil travels through Gulf of Aden as it travels up through Suez Canal — almost all of it heading to Europe. - Almost 8 percent of all world trade via shipping goes through Suez Canal. - Iran is seen to be trying to bu

gn against the coronavirus, with the first shots of Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm's vaccine given to healthcare workers in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia." Turkey Passes 25,000 Deaths From COVID. The AP (1/24) reports Turkey on Sunday "passed 25,000 COVID-19-related deaths since the

, Mohamed, Awadalla, Lewis) says with the ship dislodged, "113 ships were expected to transit the canal in both directions by early Tuesday morning, Suez Canal Authority (SCA) chairman Osama Rabie told reporters. He said a backlog of 422 ships could be cleared in 3 -1/2 days." Bloomberg (3/29, Koh, Wardan

n to champion. Indeed, under Tantawi -- who became minister of defense in 1991 -- the United States routinely enjoyed expedited access through the Suez Canal, overflight rights, and training in the form of the biannual Bright Star exercise, which is the largest of its type in the world. For their parts,

the more extreme Islamists known as Salafis in the Egyptian elections. To understand why they won roughly two-thirds of the votes, I drove to this Suez Canal city of Ismailia, where the Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928. The first clue to the success of the Brotherhood: its offices are social servic

ct, the key initiatives of Sisi's campaign to emerge so far are Gulf-financed economic megaprojects (one in housing, another in development of the Suez Canal zone) with extensive military involvement. There is every indication that Sisi will continue to depend on infusions of cash and/or energy of roughl

. LIBERTY 172 / 52.5M 10/12 GUESTS is booked in the Maldives until 2nd May and then returning to the Mediterranean (directly via the Red Sea and Suez Canal) for her commitments from 10th June-10th July, she is then available 12th July through until 29th July in East Med or Adriatic and open again from