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🇨🇳🚄 Inside China’s record-breaking high-speed underwater railway 📍 The massive railway project, stretching 2,000 km from Chengdu, is aimed at uniting China’s eastern and western hubs, the South China Morning Post reports. 🔶 Its main feature is a 14 km-long tunnel linking Shanghai’s Chongming Island with Taicang city, Jiangsu province, the outlet explains. 🔶 The tunnel goes under a segment of the Yangtze River, through which trains will be able to pass at the speed of 350 km/h, the outlet explains, adding the tunnel is the longest of its kind in China. 🔶 This will allow the trains to avoid shipping lanes in Shanghai and maintaining a constant high speed, says David Feng, an independent Chinese railway specialist. 💬 "Given how important these conurbations are, there’s every need for a wholly new, separate 350 km/h route,” he said. “Part of this line at the far western end has in fact been primed for future 400 km/h operations." 👉 According to plans, by 2030 China’s railway operator is set to run a network spanning 180,000 km, with one-third being high-speed lines, the SCMP notes. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

Burkina Faso Raises Nearly $800Mln for Counter-Terrorism Fund, Surpassing Initial Goal: PM 🇧🇫👉 Burkinabe Patriotic Support Fund, launched by President Ibrahim Traoré, has collected approximately $795 million between 2023 and 2026, Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo announced. The collections in the first quarter of 2026 alone reached close to $72 million — a 22.65% increase compared to the same period of 2025, he noted at the first session of the fund's Orientation Council in Ouagadougou. ✅ The results mark a significant overachievement of the fund's original targets, with the mobilized resources earmarked for financing the country's fight against terrorism, Ouédraogo stressed. Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 Sputnik Africa | X 🔸

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