Karl Bushby walks home to Hull after 28 years and 50,000km around the world: ‘Is that it, is it done?’
He left Chile in 1998 with a tent and a few hundred dollars, crossed the frozen Bering Strait and swam the Caspian and the English Channel
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World news from The Thursday Times' foreign desk.
US midterms: Trump vows to be ‘Mr Veto’ if Democrats win, as both parties make their last push
He closed at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, talking repairs for 20 minutes before turning to the vote. A judge was also hearing a challenge over immigration agents at polling places
Russian bombs kill at least 26 people at Ukrainian school used for aid, as fighting resumes after the war’s longest truce
Rescuers and police officers are among the dead in Komyshuvakha, and people are still under the rubble. Zelensky says a second wave of bombs hit the shelter where people had taken cover
‘Come if you have the guts’: Rahul Gandhi dares Modi to open debate and says he became PM ‘because of foreign help’
The challenge answers BJP charges that he is working for foreign powers. Amit Shah says even a party youth leader would beat him
US midterms: Justice Department heads to Supreme Court over California ballots a day before the vote
It wants the ballots of people it calls likely noncitizens held back. Two lower courts have refused, and officials say many on its list of 20,000 were never mailed a ballot
US midterms: Democrat Haley Stevens drops Abdul El-Sayed for his Republican rival two days before the vote, as Schumer calls it a ‘despicable betrayal’
The reversal in Michigan, one of the races that could decide the Senate, reopens a Democratic rift over Israel. El-Sayed says: ‘None of this matters’
US midterms 2026: what is at stake, when polls close in Pakistan time and the Senate races that could decide Congress
Americans vote on Tuesday for all 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats and 36 governors, with the first polls closing at 4am on Wednesday in Pakistan
China presses Iran and Saudi Arabia to choose talks over war as Wang Yi warns of a ‘critical crossroads’ and Xi hosts Oman’s sultan
Beijing will send its Middle East envoy on “shuttle diplomacy” to Iran, Oman and Saudi Arabia this month, as fears grow of new strikes after the US midterms
Israel’s former army chief says October 7 ‘could have been prevented’ and admits Israeli bombs killed hostages, but sees ‘no betrayal’
Herzi Halevi speaks publicly about the attack for the first time and says the country’s leaders must reject inside-job claims
Israel election: ‘Dark cloud’ hangs over the results, Netanyahu’s Likud says, challenging election chief over foreign funding probe
The party says only 4,612 votes kept a seat from moving to the right, a day after Justice Sohlberg said the outcome would stand
