Workers begin laying tracks for Egypt’s high-speed rail megaproject
NEW ADMINISTRATIVE CAPITAL, Egypt (AFP) — Workers have started laying tracks in the desert east of Cairo for Egypt’s first high-speed train, which will link the Red Sea and the…
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