Local man Matthew Mulhern is currently running from John O’Groats to Lands End in 30 days. He is half way at the moment, having run on average 30 miles a day for 15 days straight.
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ANKARA, April 20 (Reuters) – Turkey will tighten gun-ownership rules and increase penalties for owners whose children find the firearms, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday after last week’s rare, deadly school shootings. The second of the two separate attacks by students last week killed eight pupils and a teacher in a southeastern province of

New Delhi: Many believed the war in the Middle East would be swift, but it has been over 40 days into the US-Israel military campaign against Iran and the war’s trajectory has confounded what Washington’s policymakers had predicted, Editor-in-Chief and CEO of Zeteo Mehdi Hasan told NDTV in an exclusive interview. Despite facing two nuclear-armed

NAIROBI, April 20 (Reuters) – Tigray’s main political party said it was taking back control of the region’s government, effectively voiding a peace deal with Ethiopia’s federal government that ended one of the century’s deadliest conflicts. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) made the statement in a Facebook post on Sunday, accusing the federal government

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US President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at the Democrats, alleging attempts to hurt Washington’s position amid the ongoing war with Iran. The Republican has clarified that he is not under any “pressure” with respect to making a deal with Iran, further adding to the uncertainty over the future of the war. Donald Trump

Police said several victims and suspects have been identified. Two people were killed after a planned fight among young people escalated into a mass shooting at a park in North Carolina on Monday. The shooting happened around 10 am at Leinbach Park, where multiple people fired at each other. “The NC SBI is currently responding

LONDON, April 20 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday said he had asked the group overseeing security standards across government to examine any security concerns raised during Peter Mandelson’s tenure as ambassador to the United States. Starmer told lawmakers it was staggering that he had not been told that Mandelson had failed
REUTERS/NOEL CELIS I Marine Expeditionary Force Commanding General and U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant General Christian Wortman speaks during the opening ceremony of the U.S.-Philippines “Balikatan” joint military exercises at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, on Monday. MANILA >> Philippine and U.S. forces will carry out maritime strike drills on a remote Philippine

DanceBlue raises over 2 million dollars for the DanceBlue pediatric oncology clinic on April 19, 2026. Photo by Carter Skaggs | UKphoto Carter Skaggs | UKphoto The University of Kentucky’s 24-hour dance marathon fundraiser, known as DanceBlue, raised a record-breaking $2.4 million for childhood cancer this weekend. The event, which took place at Rupp Arena

MOSCOW, April 20 (Reuters) – A celebrity blogger whose sharp criticism of the authorities has been watched by tens of millions of Russians has hit back after one of state TV’s best-known political presenters accused her of working for the West and called for her to be investigated. Vladimir Solovyov, a fiery talk show host

Donald Trump projected himself as a peace President when he ran for a second term in the White House in 2024. The data backed him; he was the only President to not declare a new war during his first term after Jimmy Carter, though it’s a name he doesn’t want to be associated with. President

The next local elections are taking place on Thursday, May 7 The deadline for registering to vote is rapidly approaching(Image: PA) People have just hours left before the deadline for registering to vote in the upcoming local elections taking place in England, Scotland and Wales on May 7. Elections are being held on the first

A total of 30 wards are up for election in the city 14:06, 20 Apr 2026Updated 14:08, 20 Apr 2026 Seats across the city are up for election(Image: Rui Vieira/PA Wire) The 2026 local elections are fast approaching this year with candidates set to stand across the city. In Bradford, 30 wards are up for

ISLAMABAD, April 20 (Reuters) – Pakistan has put a $1.5 billion deal to supply weapons and jets to Sudan on hold after Saudi Arabia asked for the agreement to be terminated and said it would not finance the purchase, two Pakistani security sources and a diplomatic source said. The conflict between Sudan’s army and the

By Yesim Dikmen and Joshua McElwee SAURIMO, Angola, April 20 (Reuters) – Pope Leo lamented during an event in Angola on Monday that many people in the world were being “exploited by authoritarians and defrauded by the rich”, the latest example of a forceful new speaking style he has adopted on his four-nation Africa tour.

MANILA, April 20 (Reuters) – Philippine and U.S. forces will carry out maritime strike drills on a remote Philippine island near Taiwan during annual exercises that started on Monday, which Manila’s military chief said would test their readiness under “real‑world conditions”. The April 20 to May 8 exercises known as “Balikatan”, or “shoulder-to-shoulder”, will be

ANTALYA, Turkey, April 20 (Reuters) – This year’s U.N. climate summit will seek to turn past decisions into action, with financing the main focus, Turkey’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum told Reuters, as the country prepares to host and chair COP31 in November. The minister, Murat Kurum, said financing was the most important

MOSCOW, April 20 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that it was encouraged by Bulgarian politician Rumen Radev’s desire to resolve issues with Russia via pragmatic talks after he won a landslide election victory on Sunday. Official results showed that Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria party had won convincingly, sidelining long-dominant political forces and potentially pushing

THE PAST couple of days in the Middle East have been characterised by the now-familiar whiplash. On April 17th Donald Trump announced the Strait of Hormuz had opened to traffic. Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, confirmed as much. The same day outlets linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) criticised Mr Araghchi for failing
The Jerusalem District Court has reportedly postponed the scheduled testimony of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his office requested cancellation, citing “security-diplomatic reasons”. Over a week ago, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu had asked to postpone his testimony in his long-running corruption trial. (Reuters) Jerusalem District Court Judges Rivka Friedman-Feldman, Moshe Bar-Am, and Oded Shaham