The Suez Canal expansion was inaugurated with a lavish ceremony and the presence of various world leaders. Dressed in a military uniform, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi sailed in the El-Mahorusa, the same yacht that the then French Empress Eugenie, Napoleon Bonaparte’s wife, sailed in to inaugurate the first Suez Canal back in 1869. Among those present was Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras,
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