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Added on the 31/10/2022 09:23:11 - Copyright : France 24 EN
The world’s longest and most expensive railway tunnel opens on Wednesday in Switzerland.
At least nine people were killed Saturday after a train coach parked in southern India caught fire when a passenger tried to make tea, officials said. The coach, which had been detached from a train, was stationed at the Madurai railway yard in the southern state of Tamil Nadu when the fire broke out before dawn. Local media reports said the passengers had illegally smuggled aboard a gas cylinder which exploded when they tried to use it. IMAGES
Cranes work to clear the carriages off the tracks the day after two trains derailed as stormy winds lashed northwestern Switzerland, with police confirming that fifteen people were injured in the accident. The incidents, on regional passenger rail lines, took place within 20 minutes of each other, and about 30 kilometres (18 miles) apart, north of the Swiss capital Bern. IMAGES
The first passenger train arrives in Kherson since Russian forces withdrew from the city on November 11. Arriving with a one hour delay, the train from Kyiv pulled in at ten o’clock as people waved flags from a bridge and relatives waited with flowers on the platform. IMAGES
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurates the world's longest suspension bridge over the Dardanelles which stretches straight into north-western Turkey. The bridge cuts travel time between Asia and Europe to around six minutes. IMAGES
The ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE) opens a congress where its leader, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo seems set to be nominated to run for a sixth term. In power for 42 years, the leader appears to be preferred since party elite think his son Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, nicknamed "Teodorin", is not yet ready for the role. IMAGES