Plans for the bridge were first approved in the 1970s, but have stopped and started over the decades.
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Divers find 4 bodies during search of yacht wreckage off Sicily
The search continued for two more missing passengers on a yacht that sank off Sicily and questions intensified about why the vessel went down so quickly.
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Who are Mike Lynch and the other people missing after a yacht sank in Sicily?
Lynch, a tech entrepreneur, had recently been acquitted on federal fraud charges in the U.S. The yacht he was on, the Bayesian, sank two days after Lynch’s co-defendant was killed by a car.
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Search continues for British tech magnate and 5 others after yacht sinks off Sicily
Local authorities said the crew and passengers hailed from a variety of countries: the United States, Britain, Antigua, France, Germany, Ireland, Myanmar, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Spain.


