‘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
Visitors could be forgiven for thinking it’s a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
For the abandoned citadel of Guermassa in Tunisia sits in an otherworldly landscape redolent of the environs of Star Wars’ Tatooine.
This is not a coincidence: nearby Tataouine city – the capital of the Tataouine Governate – provided the architectural inspiration for Luke Skywalker’s home planet, if not the shooting location (that’s Matmata, in the north east).
Guermassa itself is the name of
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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
Around 30 people were reported missing after two shipwrecks occurred off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa in the night from Saturday to Sunday.
The Italian coast guard on Sunday said it recovered two bodies and rescued 57 migrants, Italian news agency Ansa reported. The two boats had set off from the Tunisian port of Sfax and sank on their way to Europe, the agency said, citing survivors’ accounts.
The first boat is said to have carried 48 people, the
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It’s hard to punch above your weight if you’re handcuffed.
In Brussels, the Netherlands is known for its assertive positioning in EU legislation in a wide range of policy files. Despite its relatively small size, the Netherlands has a tendency to get involved, even on files that are not at the core of the Dutch domestic debate.
Its prime minister, Mark Rutte, is the second-longest serving European Union leader
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BRUSSELS/PARIS — Europe’s hope it could buoy an island of stability in West Africa is drowning as Niger slips under military rule.
The EU — and France particularly — bet big on Niger, with Paris sending resources and troops to the country and the EU committing €40 million to help train and equip the Nigerien military. The goal was to arrest Russia’s seeping influence in the region, eradicate burgeoning
EU lawmakers have accused the European Commission of ignoring ‘grave violations’ of human rights in its ‘cash for migrant control’ agreement with Tunisia in a letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen published on Thursday (27 July).
The letter, signed by a cross-party group of MEPs, complains that the EU-Tunisia deal “fails to address core human rights concerns observed in Tunisia”.
“The failure to address such concerns, which include grave violations of the rights of migrants and asylum seekers
Western nations fear an economic collapse in Tunisia could trigger even greater migrant flows to Europe and have offered financial assistance. Yet prospects of Tunisia’s sealing the biggest deal of all — a $1.9-billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund — seem increasingly remote.
The inflation-ravaged and heavily indebted country reached a tentative deal for the loan from the Washington-based IMF in October.
It would require Tunis to undertake what the IMF calls a “comprehensive economic reform programme” that would
Covid is up to 1,000 more prevalent in France than other popular holiday destinations including Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia, figures suggest.
Infection rates are falling or plateauing at UK holidaymakers’ favourite spots as the Omicron wave recedes across Europe.
But France has still recorded an average of 1,746 cases per million people over the last week, while the figures for Morocco (1.34), Tunisia (15.7) and Turkey (60.4) are up to 1,300 times fewer, according to Oxford-backed statistics site Our World
