Two Nepali workers pulled alive from a tunnel after nine days | ABC News Top Stories

Two workers have been pulled alive from a tunnel in Nepal nine days after the devastating flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border. Nepal's Energy Ministry says they expect at least 42 others to be rescued from the Thrishuli 3-A hydropower plant. About 900 workers are missing from about a dozen hydropower projects, with roughly 500 believed to be trapped in tunnels. A man who beat a woman he kept as a slave in Melbourne's west will spend at least four years behind bars. 47-year-old Malaysian national Chee Kit Chong bashed and starved the Indonesian woman in her 60s between February and October 2022. And Argentina's President Javier Milei has announced he will sanction oil companies working off the Falkland Islands. He's reiterated his country's claim over the British overseas territory in the south-west Atlantic Ocean, which Argentina calls Las Malvinas. The UK government says Falkland islanders "are British with a right to determine their own future". Press the 'Follow' or '+' button on this show page to add us to your playlist, so you never miss an episode. For more news, politics and current affairs podcasts go to ABC listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices