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Heard the one about Nicaragua building a canal to rival Panama’s? This one’s better – Israel and China have signed an agreement to build a freight railway from Israel’s Red Sea port of Eilat to the Med port of Ashdod, thereby reducing Israel’s – and by association, Europe’s – dependence on the Suez Canal.

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