‘Hardest Geezer’ Russ Cook has denied knowing anything about the row over whether he’s the first to run the length of Africa after jokes he ‘needs to sort his mop out’ and is looking forward to his first Greggs after completing his 10,000 mile odyssey.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain this morning, the extreme marathon runner said: ‘It was quite overwhelming yesterday there’s so many people here and it’s amazing to have so much support.
‘I had a great party
A British man who has been running the length of Africa in a mammoth challenge which has seen him cross 16 countries and survive a gunpoint robbery and a kidnapping has crossed the finish line in Tunisia.
Russ Cook, an extreme marathon runner who calls himself ‘Hardest Geezer’ on social media, has covered around 10,000 miles from South Africa to Tunisia across 352 days, completing the equivalent of 386 marathons.
The 27-year-old, from Worthing, West Sussex, crossed the border into
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BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine. But there’s another issue, one far closer to home, that’s derailing governments in Europe and America: migration.
In recent days, U.S. President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak all hit trouble amid intense domestic pressure to tackle immigration; all three emerged weakened
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BRUSSELS — A few months before confessing to the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the European Parliament, Pier Antonio Panzeri had some advice for a friend.
“Don’t put yourself out of the game,” Panzeri told the Belgian MEP Maria Arena in August 2022 during a meal at the now-defunct Salvarino pizzeria in Brussels. “Because if you are in the game, then I am going to amass more
Pressure is mounting on Niger’s putschists hours ahead of a deadline later Sunday set by a group of West African countries for the military to step down or face a possible military intervention.
ECOWAS, a bloc of 15 Western African countries, issued its ultimatum after Niger’s top military officers announced on July 27 that they had overthrown the country’s President Mohamed Bazoum, who was democratically elected in 2021. According to France 24, the deadline expires on Sunday evening; Reuters reported
