The idea may seem wild: digging a canal from the Atlantic, somewhere south of Morocco, to flood part of the Sahara and create an inland sea. Yet, this project has been seriously considered several ...

Moscow's forces have advanced in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, as the U.S. and Russian leaders are expected to speak on Tuesday.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced on Monday that the Suez Canal is losing around $800 million in revenue each month due to regional instability. ・President al-Sisi announced Suez Canal ...

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday that the monthly losses of the Suez Canal revenues reached around $800 ...

At least 40 US air raids in Yemen have killed at least 32 people and injured 101, most of them women and children. United ...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have warned shippers that “any Israeli vessel” traveling through nearby Mideast waters is now a target ...

A huge snow bomb is set to blanket parts of Britain in a matter of weeks, new weather maps show. This weekend has been largely sunny across much of the UK, but according to WXCharts, the country ...

A ‘mini-Suez’ canal is being built in Pakistan, costing the country £225 million. The Kachhi Canal Project is a 310-mile-long canal project situated in the Baluchistan and Punjab Provinces of ...

New weather maps have shown Brits will be battered by an icy spell this month with 14 counties feeling the brunt of the chill. Weather maps by WXCharts, which use Metdesk data, forecast for March ...

New weather maps reveal that Brits are set to be hit by an icy spell this month, with 14 counties bearing the brunt of the chill. WXCharts' weather maps, which utilise Metdesk data, predict ...

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