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Egypt's Suez Canal profits sink after completion of $9bn mega-project

Monthly profits down four percent since inauguration of widened waterway, but head of canal authority blames 'campaign of distortion'
President Sisi surveys the New Suez Canal shortly before its inauguration in August (AFP)
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