Suez

Istanbul became the junction point on international waterways in the 19th century. Before anything else, the Suez Canal had drawn a portion of the heavy traffic in the northeast Atlantic to this region. Other than that, Russia and the Danube basin's entry to the Mediterranean traffic also created an effect.  

BELGRADE - It was destined to be an iconic image: a small girl holding a teddy bear in a white dress marked by blood splotches with the ruins of Aleppo behind her. However, it was also a set-up, shot hundreds of miles away in a different country, with help of a posing child and some paint.

'The Poisoned Well: Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East' by Roger Hardy (Hurst, £20, 272 pages)

As the Lunar New Year of the Monkey swings into action Feb. 8, fortune tellers foresee 12 months of political and financial turbulence at the hands of the mischievous, unpredictable creature.

China's COSCO is expected to make an offer for Greece's rail network after becoming the sole bidder for the country's largest port, two people familiar with the matter said, as the state owned shipping giant forges ahead with a plan to build a European transshipment hub.

Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday received Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi who visited Greece for talks at the government headquarters in Athens.

The Statue of Liberty, a symbol of democracy and freedom that has greeted countless immigrants to the shores of America was inspired by a project representing an Arab woman guarding the Suez Canal according to a recent research.

Bulgaria and China have signed an educational exchange agreement to fully tap into the development potential of that specific sector of bilateral relations, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia said on Thursday.

The Statue of Liberty was originally designed to be a Muslim woman, the Smithsonian Institution's magazine has claimed.

An article on the government-administered museum's blog, Smart News, claims one of the designers of Lady Liberty drew inspiration from monuments in Egypt and originally intended to construct a veiled female peasant on the Suez Canal.

The presence of the Diadema setosum sea urchin and the invasive alien pterois miles (devil firefish, commonly known lionfish) have been pinpointed around the island of Rhodes. Both these species originating in the Red Sea, made their way to the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal.