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“You can run really fast and then have a 20-minute break, or you could run slow and have a one-minute break,” Harder said. “The idea is you run as fast or as slow as you want. You just have to get the 6.7 kilometres done every hour and be ready to go the next hour.”The race continues until runners are eliminated by failing to complete a loop in the allotted time, choosing to stop or, ultimately, until one runner remains. The math adds up quickly. Completing 24 loops means running 160.8 kilometres, or 100 miles. Harder’s 42-loop performance in Lethbridge amounted to about 281 kilometres, or 175 miles, and was enough to place him among the top qualifying performances during the two-year qualification period. The world team championship is held every two years, alternating with an individual world championship. For the team event, each country has up to 15 runners. The athletes start their loops at the same time, with each country’s total number of completed loops added together at the end. “The team with the highest total loops around is the world team championship, or world team champion,” Harder said.

Israeli settlers have attacked European diplomats, including a French mayor, near the Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank. The delegation was visiting Palestinian olive harvesters on Saturday when the Israeli attackers confronted the group. The attack comes a day after settlers assaulted a US journalist north of Ramallah. In Saturday’s incident, the settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said. “A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle damaged,” Prevot said, linking the attack to what he called Israel’s “illegal settlement policy” and pledging to push for further European Union sanctions. French mayor Bernard Baudoux, who was assaulted, told the AFP news agency that the violence suggests that “there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government” towards settler violence. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said the settlers surrounded the diplomats’ vehicles, pelted them with stones and smashed their windows.

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What researchers uncovered through lab testing and surveillance footage, prosecutors said, was a plot by his fellow graduate student to intentionally poison him.

Omar’s legal team says the search violated safeguards designed to protect constitutional rights of members of Congress. Lawyers for Democratic United States Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota have demanded the return of property seized in a federal raid of her Washington, DC home, accusing the US Department of Justice of conducting a politically motivated investigation and failing to follow judicial instructions during the search. “The political motivations behind this pre-election investigation and search are clear as day,” Omar’s lawyers wrote in a letter sent to federal prosecutors on Friday and obtained by The Associated Press news agency.