Britain and France cast U.N. vetoes against U.S. and Russian cease-fire proposals, and prepared to land troops by the Suez Canal. British newspapers reported an Anglo-French armada steaming toward ...

Late intelligence from Europe indicates that France will not at present press the Suez Canal project ... is held at dead lock by the British Government. This canal, which it is proposed to ...

On July 26 of that year, Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal Company and unilaterally assumed control ... a United Nations resolution for a cease-fire. On December 3, the British government announced ...

Israeli troops invaded Egypt and came within ten miles of the Suez Canal. This was the pretext for the British and French to intervene. It prompted an international crisis. America condemned the ...

Eden's reason for sending British armed forces into Egypt along ... Dulles had coupled the Suez Canal issue with colonialism, and his statement infuriated Eden and much of Britain as well.

and the British Admiralty, ensure that vessels transiting the Canal are equipped with the latest navigational data. Source: Suez Canal Authority Admiral Ossama Rabiee, chairman and managing ...

CAIRO, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Egypt's Suez Canal Authority chairman Osama Rabei said on Sunday that 47 ships have been rerouted from Cape of Good Hope to Suez Canal since the start of February.

In 1956, a brilliant diplomat named Lester B. Pearson led Canada into middle power respectability when he pulled the world back from the brink of war in the Middle East. In 1956, the first large ...