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For the first time in its history, the Volga-Dnepr Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 has landed at Russia's Progress Station in Antarctica on its blue ice runway. On November 7th, the aircraft departed from Cape Town, traveling 5,300km south in six and a half hours bound for Progress. The aircraft, fitted with PS-90A-76 engines, carried 82 passengers and six and a half tonnes of cargo which landed on the base's 100-meter- wide and 3,000-meter-long runway.

Members of Chinas 38th Antarctic scientific expedition team said on Monday that the team had been following strict epidemic prevention measures and members are not allowed to visit other countries stations, and all team members are doing well at the moment.

台鐵408次太魯閣號今年4月2日發生出軌撞上工程車意外，造成49死、逾200人輕重傷，運安會日前公佈相關調查報告，民眾黨今（27日）舉行記者會，呼籲政府將台鐵的改善措施及相關進度公開透明，並檢討重車駕照管考制度。黨團總召邱臣遠也質疑，從普悠瑪事故到現在已兩年多，台鐵到底改善什麼？今年又發生太魯閣悲劇

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