Tag: running
Time running out for LGBTQ+ Afghans hiding from Taliban, warn charities
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Calls for the government to speed up the evacuation of gay, lesbian and transgender Afghans intensified on Saturday after the first LGBTQ+ group arrived safely in Britain but left many behind to face an uncertain fate...
‘Most expensive isn’t necessarily best’: how to buy running shoes online
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Although non-essential shops in England and Wales are allowed to reopen, some things remain easier to buy than others. Take running shoes, for instance: finding the right pair usually involves spending hours in store,...
Coronavirus live news: Japan to expand quasi-emergency measures; Brazil ‘running out of sedatives’
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Covid cases continue to surge in Cambodia, Thailand and India; reports emerge of Brazilian health workers forced to intubate patients without sedatives; Japan to extend Covid restrictions to 10 regions
Chinese diplomat calls Justin Trudeau ‘running dog of US’ as tensions escalate
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A Chinese diplomat has dismissed Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau as a “boy” in a social media attack marking a new low in the fractured relationship between the two countries. China and Canada have clashed rep...
Eibar running out of miracles as six-season survival story nears its end
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José Luis Mendilíbar says he likes the “sound of football”, boot on ball, and mostly football likes the sound of him. Old school and potty mouthed, no pretence or pretentiousness, he’s not messing about. Anti-VAR, pro...
Covid ‘still running rampant’ worldwide, warns creator of Oxford vaccine
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Coronavirus is “still running rampant” worldwide and the failure to ensure poorer countries can access vaccines risks more deaths and the emergence of potentially dangerous new variants, the creator of the Oxford jab ...
No water, no life: running out of water on the California-Oregon border
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Paul Crawford’s crops are dying. Salmon sacred to Frankie Myers’ Native American tribe are slipping away. Along the California-Oregon border, the climate crisis is worsening a water crisis decades in the making – leav...
Outrage at French mayor convicted of rape still running town from cell
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Feminist groups have expressed outrage that a French mayor jailed for rape is still being allowed to run his town south of Paris from his prison cell. Georges Tron, who once served as a junior minister under Nicolas S...
Why I’m running 5,000 miles around the coast of Britain solo
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In the late summer of 2017 I became captivated by the sculpture A Line Made By Walking. It was created in 1967 by Bristol artist Richard Long, who walked carefully backwards and forwards through a grassy field, drawin...
Risk of pubs running dry as drinkers wrap up for outdoor pint
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Glasses were raised in pub gardens across the country on Saturday as revellers wrapped in thick jackets and jumpers made the most of the spring sunshine – and the beer. Publicans and brewery owners are quietly worried...
St Vincent water supply running low as volcano explosions continue
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Leaders of volcano-wracked St Vincent have warned that water is running short as heavy ash contaminates supplies, amid estimates that the eastern Caribbean island will need hundreds of millions of dollars to recover f...
Delhi warns hospitals running out of oxygen amid India’s devastating Covid wave
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Indian authorities scrambled to shore up supplies of medical oxygen to hospitals in the capital, Delhi, on Wednesday as a fast-spreading second wave of coronavirus stretched medical infrastructure to breaking point, o...
Not even published, already damned – why are people running scared of Prince Harry’s memoir?
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Not since criminals were barred from profiting in this way can a publisher’s announcement of a memoir have united the British press in such disgust. Before that, even the gangster turned memoirist, “Mad” Frankie Frase...
‘I feel alive and free’: the joy of lockdown running
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I run 5 or 10k three or four times a week. I find it really relaxing: I come back physically tired but mentally energised. Running is a great release, a stress reliever, especially during lockdown. It is more than a p...
UK recovery ‘running out of steam’ as retail sales fall again – business live
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Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Running Against the Wind review – lure of athletics proves strong in Ethiopian drama
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Opening with the impressionistic image of a young man sprinting across the desert, his figure blurred by the sandy blast of a dust devil, Jan Philipp Weyl’s film ruminates on life’s unexpected whirlwinds that can eith...