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October 22, 2025

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Cold War tunnel turns into concert hall in Taiwan

Tourist destination reverberates with Mozart and Beethoven at Kinmen Music Festival TAIWAN: Built at the height of the Cold War to protect supply ships from Chinese shells, one of Taiwan’s best-known wartime attractions last weekend reverberated with a different sound – cellos and violins for the annual Kinmen Tunnel Music Festival. The Zhaishan Tunnel in Kinmen, which is located on the Chinese coast next to the cities of Xiamen and Quanzhou, was hand-carved out of hard granite in the 1960s and originally designed for military purposes, right on Taiwan’s front line with China. Kinmen has been controlled by Taiwan since

September 15, 2025

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Astronomers detect interstellar tunnels leading to distant stars

Astronomers have revealed a stunning new structure in our galaxy area, a interstellar tunnel that seems to connect the hot gas bubble surrounding our solar system in areas around other stars. The finding comes from a study Led by Dr. LL Sala and a team at the Max-Planck Institute, which analyzed data from the X Erosita X-ray to the spectrum of the Spectrum-Rentgen-Gamma mission, combined with earlier observations from the Rosat survey. Our solar system sits within what astronomers call the local hot bubble, an area of ​​about 300 light -widths full of very hot low density gas. This bubble

August 28, 2024

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Hostage freed from Gaza tunnel in ‘complex operation’, Israeli military says

Israeli special forces recovered an Israeli hostage from a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip in “a complex rescue operation”, the military said on Tuesday, more than 10 months after he was abducted by Hamas-led gunmen on 7 October. It said 52-year-old Qaid Farhan Alkadi, a member of the Bedouin community in southern Israel, was taken to hospital and was in a stable condition. Military spokesman Vice Admiral Daniel Haggari said Alqadi was rescued in an underground tunnel, but did not give details of the operation, citing the safety of the other hostages and Israeli forces. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,

December 13, 2023

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Stonehenge’s ‘heritage monument’ status hangs in the balance amid controversial tunnel plan

Government approval for a tunnel near Stonehenge has sparked fierce opposition from campaigners Stonehenge’s UNESCO status hangs in the balance amid controversial road tunnel plans.—Reuters Stonehenge, an iconic UNESCO World Heritage Site, is at imminent risk of being delisted if plans for a £1.7bn road tunnel near the monument go ahead, a High Court hearing has warned. The government’s approval of the tunnel has sparked fierce opposition from activists, who argue that UNESCO’s concerns have been unduly ignored, jeopardizing global recognition of the site. Stonehenge, a cultural and historical landmark that attracts more than a million visitors annually, was designated

November 28, 2023

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All the trapped Indian workers were rescued from the Himalayan tunnel

INDIA: Indian rescuers on Tuesday pulled out all 41 construction workers trapped for 17 days inside a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayas, hours after drilling through rubble of rock, concrete and dirt to reach them. The evacuation of the men – low-wage laborers from some of India’s poorest states – began more than six hours after rescuers broke through debris in the tunnel in Uttarakhand state, which collapsed on November 12. They were pulled out on wheeled stretchers through a 90 cm (3 ft) wide steel pipe, the whole process being completed in about an hour. “Their condition is first

November 28, 2023

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Indian rescuers reached 41 men trapped in a tunnel

INDIA: Indian rescuers broke through rocks and debris on Tuesday to reach 41 construction workers who had been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayas for 17 days. The process of removing the 41 workers, one at a time on wheeled stretchers through a narrow pipe 90 centimeters (3 feet) wide, was to begin soon, officials said. Three teams, each of four rescuers, would first enter the area where the men are trapped to prepare to pull them out, said Syed Ata Hasnain, a member of the National Disaster Management Authority overseeing rescue efforts. “We have been involved in

November 28, 2023

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‘Rat miners’ to help rescue 41 men stuck in Indian tunnel

Rescuers on Monday brought in “rat miners” to bore through a narrow pipe and help extricate 41 construction workers trapped in a tunnel in the Indian Himalayas for more than two weeks after high-powered machinery broke down, officials said. The men, low-wage workers from India’s poorest states, have been stuck in the 4.5km tunnel in Uttarakhand state since it collapsed on 12 November. The men received food, water, light, oxygen and medicine through a tube, but efforts to dig a tunnel ran into a series of entanglements with machinery. Efforts to bore a tunnel horizontally through the debris trapping the

November 26, 2023

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India’s bid to free 41 trapped workers enters its third week

The Indian army brought in specialized equipment on Sunday as efforts to free 41 trapped workers entered a third week, with excavations continuing in three directions after repeated setbacks in the operation. The Indian Air Force said on Sunday it was “responding with alacrity” as it flew its third cargo after the under-construction Silkyara road tunnel partially collapsed on November 12 in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. Rescue officials said they called for an overheated plasma cutter to be brought to the remote mountain site after engineers drove a metal pipe horizontally through 57 meters (187 feet) of rock and

November 23, 2023

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Indian rescuers hope to reach the 41 people trapped in the tunnel on Thursday

INDIA: Rescuers in India hope to finish drilling through the debris on Thursday and free 41 men trapped in a highway tunnel in the Himalayan region after a metal barrier slowed progress, officials said. The men began the twelfth day of their ordeal confined to the 4.5km tunnel in Uttarakhand state since it caved in early on November 12. Authorities said they are safe, with access to light, oxygen, food, water and medicine. “Hopefully by the end of the day, if there are no obstacles, rocks or beams, the operation will be successful,” Atul Karwal, head of the National Disaster

November 22, 2023

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Indian rescuers close workers trapped in Himalayan tunnel

INDIA: Rescuers hope to drill through the last third of debris blocking a collapsed tunnel in the Indian Himalayas by early Thursday to reach the 41 workers trapped for ten days, an official said, provided there are no new obstacles. The men have been stuck in the 4.5km tunnel in Uttarakhand state since it caved in early on November 12 and are safe, authorities said, with access to light, oxygen, food, water and medicine. Authorities have not said what caused the tunnel to collapse, but the area is prone to landslides, earthquakes and flooding. Efforts to extract the men have

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