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A general view of the Blue Nile river as it passes through the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), near Guba in Ethiopia, on December 26, 2019

Egypt and Ethiopia eye calmer waters in Nile dam dispute

The Bosphorus river is a major shipping route, Istanbul, Turkey.

International report

Bosphorus canal construction plan divides Istanbul (Part 1)

French President Emmanuel Macron attends a meeting of the strategic committee for the Seine-Nord Europe Canal in Nesle, northern France, on November 22, 2019.

France-Business

Macron approves 1bn waterway project on tense home visit

An overhead view of a collapsed Chines-funded building under construction in Sihanoukville, Cambodia that has killed at least 28 workers

Cambodia - China - disaster

Survivors found two days after Cambodia building collapse

A woman reacts at the site of the collapsed building in Lagos, 13 March 2019.

Nigeria: Children trapped in Lagos building collapse

Construction workers in Gif-sur-Yvette outside Paris in 2012.

Paris region orders French be spoken on construction sites

French-Swiss cement giant LafargeHolcim has said it would supply materials for the wall US President Donald Trump has proposed to build along the US-Mexico border.

French-Swiss cement giant ready to 'supply material' for Trump’s wall

A police car stands in front of a building in which four people were killed and several others injured after a balcony collapsed late on October 15, 2016, in Angers, north-western France

France - Society

Four die after balcony collapses in western France

Opponents of the project for the creation of the international airport Notre-Dame-des-Landes near Nantes demonstrate on the peripheral road of Nantes, western France, on January 9, 2015.

Opponents of controversial Nantes airport protest against expulsion

In the past few years, a building boom has overtaken New York City with buildings spreading like mushrooms.

International report

Inequality in New York series part 2/5

Ruins of houses in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

International report

Palestine series: Gaza life post-war, part 2/3

Al-Shejaiya district in Gaza City, 26 February 2015

International report

Palestine series: Gaza life post-war, part 1/3

Zambian President Edgar Lungu

Lungu calls for China to use Zambian contractors on infrastructure jobs

Bouygues CEO Martin Bouygues, who is still alive

Rumours of French industrialist’s death greatly exaggerated

Smoke rises from the upper storeys of the Maison de la Radio in Paris

Fire at French public radio headquarters in Paris

Cité de l'Architecture, Paris - not built by Leblanc

Fake architect built schools and crèches around Paris over 30 years

The Oikiluoto EPR in Finland

France - Finland

French-built Finnish nuclear reactor to go on stream nine years late

Naima Atigui on a worksite near Paris.

On-the-spot France

For women in construction, a deliberate choice

Privas

American grandmother sits in up French crane for visiting rights

Indian 'untouchables' threatened by Michelin tyre factory

Construction industry could lose lose 35,000 jobs in 2012

Thousands of French construction jobs may go in 2012

Kuchis migrate through the Panjshir Valley

Kuchi nomads riot in Kabul after land dispute deaths

Barack Obama - facing a new statement over the FAA

New Washington stalemate over US air traffic authority partial shutdown

A map of Algeria, with Béchar province in orange

Algeria - China

Algerian court sentences Chinese workers after roadblock protest

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