Boas Kragtwijk, 28, is a Dutch ultrarunner who plans to run 50 kilometres a day for 50 days as he makes his way from Amsterdam to Kyiv. He's making the 2,500-km trek to demonstrate how close the war in Ukraine is to Western Europe and raise money to buy ambulances. The Dutch charity Zeilen van Vrijheid will then deploy them in Ukraine.
Hundreds of people rallied in support of Niger's ruling junta in the capital on Thursday, as France ended its evacuation flights to repatriate its citizens and others, eight days after the military takeover.
Headlines in Canada were filled with news of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau's separation on Wednesday — but the news quickly received international attention as well. Experts say that Trudeau's international profile likely contributed to the news garnering global interest.
