Plan to bring back Suez Canal statue stirs debate in Egypt

CAIRO (AP) — A proposal to bring back the statue of a French diplomat behind the idea to build the Suez Canal has stirred controversy in Egypt. Many are saying it would be a salute to colonial times and a “humiliation” to the memory of tens of thousands of Egyptian laborers who died while digging the waterway. The debate started when a newspaper reported in June that local authorities in the Mediterranean province of Port Said were thinking of returning the statue of Ferdinand