Successful first test for Venice Mose project floodgates

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Venice has carried out the first successful tests on a new flood barrier system designed to save the historic Italian city from rising tides.

The Mose project - adapted in English to Moses after the biblical prophet who parted the Red Sea - put its head above water as four large floodgates rose from the depths in the east of the lagoon.

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