Sinai link restored

ON NOVEMBER 14 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak formally opened the 640m El-Ferdan swing bridge across the Suez Canal, 20 km north of Isamailia. The bridge reinstates the rail link into Sinai which has been broken since the third bridge was destroyed during the 1967 war with Israel. Built over five ...

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