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Dredgers work on a new section of the Suez canal during a media tour in Ismailia, Egypt, Saturday, June 13, 2015. Work on a parallel waterway to allow two-way traffic on Egypt's Suez Canal will be finished in time to allow ships to transit for a gala inauguration at the key trade route on Aug. 6, officials said Saturday. President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi ordered the new waterway to be dug in a single year, saying that the urgency of Egypt's economic situation meant the project could not wait for an originally planned three-year timetable. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)