Britain immediately made the drawing of $561 million to replenish its reserves and announced that it had another $739 million available on stand-by. The most obvious consequence of the IMF's ...

In 1956, an international crisis over control of the Suez Canal put Britain and France into direct conflict with President ...

The Suez Crisis of 1956 saw Britain and France clash with Egypt over control of one of the world’s most strategic waterways. President Nasser’s bold move to nationalize the canal sparked an ...

In October, despite American opposition, Britain and France ... the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in resolving the Suez Canal Crisis. Pictured here, Pearson displaying the Nobel Prize.

So Israel withdrew, but for them the Suez Crisis was a military triumph. David Ben-Gurion showed the world that Israel was here to stay. Britain and France were humiliated. They would never ...

5). When Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal Co. in 1956, Britain and France claimed their military response was justified because of the waterway’s strategic importance and the company’s ...

Sir Keir Starmer has announced he will boost defence spending to 2.5 per cent by 2027 - Adrian Dennis/AFP Pool We often hear that our national debt is uncomfortably high, running at about 100pc of ...

It is yet another example of how the care crisis can only very occasionally grab public attention and is one of the reasons successive governments have tried to tackle it, but have shied away from the ...