Large-caliber WWII munitions halt Rail Baltica construction
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Work on the Rail Baltica main track was interrupted after the discovery of several large-caliber shells from the second world war. It is an old problem for new infrastructure; the project must now wait for the era it is meant to connect to stop emerging from the ground.
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