In his inaugural address last month, Donald Trump described the US decision to hand full control of the canal to Panama, in ...

The Suez Crisis of 1956 saw Britain and France clash with Egypt over control of one of the world’s most strategic waterways.

As United States President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term on Monday, he repeated his wishes to acquire the ...

Ferdinand de Lesseps, who developed the Suez Canal, led a French attempt to build a canal between 1881 and 1889; 11 miles were built before the project was defeated by engineering problems ...

Believed to have been built between 1667 and 1681, during the reign of Louis XIV, the Canal du Midi runs through the southeast French region of Occitanie. Boasting a whopping 328 structures ...

Centuries later, it was navigable only by mule and canoe until, in the mid-1800s, the US built a railway. In 1869, French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had delivered the Suez Canal through ...

The French novelist anticipated Trump’s new, expansionist “Golden Age of America.” In French, the name “Verne” refers to ...

It was the French who would make the first move in 1876. Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had recently and successfully built the Suez Canal, took charge of the project. However, creating a crossing through ...

Based in Toulouse, it is TCS’s fourth IT delivery centre in France. It will start with 50 ... Singhal gave the example of the Suez Canal blockage, which delayed the delivery of parts coming ...

The French, under the direction of the capitalist who built the Suez Canal in Egypt and with the cooperation of the Colombian government, had started a canal project on the Isthmus. However ...

The idea for a canal across Panama, which at the time was part of Colombia, was the brainchild of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the celebrated French engineer who completed construction of the Suez Canal ...

After building the Suez Canal, French engineers tried to ... other wonders on the list were the Channel Tunnel built between England and France; the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada; the Empire State ...