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CALAIS, France — The undersea train tunnel that has revolutionized travel between France and England can reopen and traffic should resume "progressively," the operator said late Friday, after ...
The Channel Tunnel, linking Britain and France beneath the English Channel, was first envisioned in 1802 by French engineer Albert Mathieu-Favier, who proposed a horse-drawn carriage tunnel lit by oil ...
Thirty years ago Queen Elizabeth II and French president Francois Mitterand officially opened the Channel Tunnel between Folkestone in Kent and Calais in northern France. So how much has the link ...
Ever since the time of Napoleon, the idea of a tunnel under the English Channel has fascinated the French, and to a lesser degree the insular English. Bonaparte beamed at the thought of his dragoons ...
COQUELLES, France -- A fire broke out Thursday on a train carrying trucks under the English Channel between England and France, injuring 14 people and shutting down traffic in the undersea rail tunnel ...
May 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1863, Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee routed Union troops under Gen. Joseph Hooker at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. In 1915, ...
PARIS — Officials say a fire broke out in the tunnel under the English Channel and caused undersea traffic to be suspended, but all passengers have been evacuated safely. Eurotunnel, the company that ...
The EU's much-delayed new digital border system, the Entry/Exit System or EES, will be gradually introduced this autumn. The system is meant to strengthen security and ultimately make travel smoother, ...
Jack Lemley holds a framed copy of a 1990 Fortune Magazine cover during the construction of the famous Channel Tunnel connecting England and France beneath the English Channel. “All I ever wanted to ...
RAPHAEL G. SATTER Associated Press Writer LONDON — More than 2,000 people were stranded beneath the English Channel for up to 16 hours when their Eurostar trains came to a halt in a tunnel, ...