Hungarian officials signaled plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court shortly after the Israeli prime minister touched down in Budapest. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touched down in Hungary overnight, stepping out for the first time into a country that recognizes the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, which issued a warrant for his arrest last year. The possibility of his arrest seemed distant, however, after Hungary's right-wing prime minister, Viktor Orbán, a well-known supporter of Israel, vowed to defy the court's directive shortly after it was issued in November. Video showed Orbán welcoming Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, to the capital, Budapest, on Thursday. Hungarian officials signaled Thursday that the country may withdraw from the ICC, which accused Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant of crimes against humanity in connection with the war in Gaza. As the conflict nears its 18th month, Israel has ramped up its operations in the enclave, and Netanyahu announced Wednesday night that the Israeli military had begun “seizing territory” across the strip. He added that his country plans to establish the “Morag” corridor, which he said would be similar to the Philadelphi security corridor, which cuts across Gaza's southern border with Egypt. “We are now cutting off the Strip and we are increasing the pressure step by step, so that they will give us our hostages,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “And the more they do not give, the more the pressure will increase.” A few hours earlier, his defense minister, Israel Katz, warned that “Operation Might and Sword” would be expanding, with the Israeli military seizing large swaths of the enclave to add to its security zones. Israel launched its assault after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, in which 1,200 people were killed and around 250 others were taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies, marking a major escalation in the decadeslong conflict. More than 50,000 people have died in Israel’s military campaign since then, according to health officials in the enclave, which the militant group has run since 2007. Israel renewed its offensive in Gaza last month, shattering a ceasefire with Hamas that brought relative calm for two months, during which dozens of hostages held by the militant group were released in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees. Efforts to resume the truce have failed to yield results, with Israel blocking the flow of aid and goods into Gaza for more than a month in the longest aid blockade since the war began. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other rights groups have called on Hungary to uphold international law and detain Netanyahu upon his arrival in the country and transfer him to The Hague in the Netherlands, where the ICC is based. Hungary is a member country of the court, but it has never incorporated its terms into the country’s domestic legal code. Shortly after Netanyahu arrived, Orbán’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyás, told the state news agency MTI that Hungary would look to withdraw from the ICC, according to Reuters. Neither Israel nor the United States recognize the jurisdiction of the world court, which has no staff to enforce its warrants and relies on law enforcement officials in member states to enforce them. Despite close ties between Orbán and Netanyahu, Orbán has been accused of using antisemitic tropes to firm up his support at home. In 2019, a government funded campaign vilified the Hungarian American businessman and philanthropist George Soros, who is Jewish, prompting criticism from the European Union and anti-racism groups. Four years later, a billboard campaign featured the slogan “Let’s not dance to their tune” alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Soros' son Alex Soros.

ROME — Italy’s main trade union confederation said Tuesday that it was joining the prosecution of a farm owner charged with the murder of an Indian migrant worker who bled to death after his arm was cut off by a piece of equipment. Antonello Lovato, 39, has been accused of abandoning the injured and bleeding Satnam Singh, 31, and failing to call an ambulance following the incident in Latina, a largely agricultural province south of Rome, on June 17, 2024. Prosecutors originally considered charging Lovato with manslaughter, but raised it to murder with malice after the fact since he was aware the actions could cause death. At the opening of his murder trial on Tuesday, Lovato said that “he lost his head,’” when he saw Singh, who was working in the country illegally, bleeding. “I wasn’t myself. I didn’t want him to die,” he was cited by the news agency ANSA as saying. Outside the court, dozens of union members, including Sikh workers wearing turbans, demonstrated against the system of exploitative, underpaid migrant labor in Italy’s agricultural sector, called “caporalato.” “I believe that what happened was apparent to everyone,” Maurizio Landini, the secretary-general of the powerful CGIL trade union federation, told the crowd. “As is the logic of exploitation known as ‘caporalato,’ which allows for people to be treated like merchandise, like parts of a machine that can be easily bought and sold for the lowest price. And I insist that it is this culture that needs to be changed.” The CGIL is joining the prosecution as civil complainants, Landini was cited by LaPresse news agency as saying. Under Italian law, parties recognized by the court as injured in the commission of crime can join the prosecution, question witnesses and possibly win damage awards in the case of conviction. “We think it is important to seek justice, above all to put in motion everything necessary to change the way of doing business so episodes like this can never be repeated,” Landini said. “We don’t think this is an isolated case. It is a mistake to think this problem can be resolved with this trial. We are worried because the season is starting again.”

North Korea criticized a recent agreement by Japan and the United States on co-producing air-to-air missiles as aggravating regional security risks and another example of Washington’s push to militarize Japan, state media said on Wednesday. At a time when the United States is upgrading its military command in Japan, the two countries’ cooperation in munitions production clearly has military and aggressive intentions aimed at countries in the region, KCNA state news agency said. The comments were attributed to an unnamed vice general director of the North’s defense ministry and did not name specific countries. But the official referred to the AIM-120 air-to-air missile system that the United States and Japan have agreed to accelerate co-producing during U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s visit to Tokyo on Sunday. Advancing the deployment of such a weapon used by aircraft involved in frequent military drills in the region that already pose a grave security threat adds a “new element of strategic instability to the Asia-Pacific region,” the official said.“Certainly, the center of gravity of the U.S. hegemony-oriented military security strategy is changing and it is a new warning signal for the Asia-Pacific regional society including the countries in Northeast Asia,” the official said. The agreement comes as “the U.S. has connived at and encouraged Japan’s moves for a military giant since last century,” the official said. In Tokyo, Hegseth and his Japanese counterpart agreed to accelerate a plan to jointly produce beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles and to consider co-producing other surface-to-air missiles. Hegseth stressed the importance of Japan’s role in deterring China including Beijing’s threat across the Taiwan Strait, calling it a “cornerstone” of security in the region. Such a positive recognition of Japan by Hegseth was in contrast with his criticism against European allies and U.S. President Donald Trump’s complaint that Tokyo has not done enough to support the presence of U.S. military in the country. It is a priority for North Korea to counter growing instability by bolstering its military deterrence, the Defense Ministry official said, without elaborating.

Israel Katz didn't clarify how much land his country intends to seize, but the Israeli military has renewed its offensive in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks. Israel’s military “will seize large areas” of the Gaza Strip to expand its security zones, its defense minister said Wednesday as he called for a large-scale evacuation of the Palestinian enclave's population. “Operation ‘Might and Sword’ in Gaza is expanding,” Israel Katz said in a statement. He went on to call on the residents of Gaza to “eliminate Hamas” to ensure the return of the remaining hostages held by the militant group. In a statement later Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the shift in strategy set to begin “tonight,” saying the Israel Defense Forces is “seizing territory, striking terrorists, destroying infrastructure.” It would also take over a new border area he referred to as the “Morag Axis,” similar to the Philadelphi corridor, to further isolate the enclave. The Israeli military has renewed its offensive in Gaza in recent weeks by expanding in the south and adding a large security area in the Netzarim corridor that cuts through the middle of the strip. Katz’s announcement came after officials at Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis told The Associated Press on Wednesday that 17 people had been killed overnight in Israeli airstrikes. The Israel Defense Forces also issued sweeping evacuation orders to residents of Rafah on Monday, directing them to head north to the al-Mawasi tent encampment. The camp was previously designated as a safe zone by the Israeli military, although several strikes hit the area. The Hostages Families Forum Headquarters, a group that represents most of the families of those in Hamas captivity, said it was “horrified” by Katz’s announcement Wednesday, because “military pressure kills living hostages and makes it impossible to recover those who have perished.” “The Israeli government has an obligation to free all 59 hostages from Hamas captivity — to pursue every possible channel to advance a deal for their release,” it said in a statement, which also called on the Trump administration and mediator countries to continue exerting pressure on Hamas. Israel has ramped up its military activity in Gaza since the first phase of a three-part ceasefire deal with Hamas came to an end March 1. Over 42 days, Hamas released 25 living hostages and the bodies of eight in exchange for around 1,800 Palestinian prisoners and detainees, including women and children. Negotiations on the second phase of the deal, designed to establish a permanent ceasefire, have since stalled. Israel subsequently blocked the flow of aid and goods into Gaza while carrying out its military operation and hitting the enclave with regular airstrikes. In the 10 days leading up to Monday, at least 322 children have been killed and 609 injured in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations Children’s Fund said Monday. Their deaths added to a toll which health officials in the Hamas-run enclave say has topped more than 50,000 people since Israel’s military campaign in Gaza after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks Oct. 7, 2023. About 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage that day, according to Israeli tallies. Israel’s monthlong aid blockade which came into effect March 2 is the longest since the war began. The aid group Doctors Without Borders called on Israel to “end this inhumane siege” in a post on X on Wednesday, adding that its teams were dressing wounds without painkillers and treating skin conditions with lotion. Meanwhile, the United Nations’ World Food Programme said Tuesday that all of its 25 bakeries in the Gaza Strip had shut down because of the lack of fuel and flour in the territory. “Hot meals are continuing, but supplies will last two weeks maximum,” the WFP said in a post on X, adding that it would distribute its last food parcels in the next two days. COGAT, the Israeli military agency, refuted this in a post on X on Tuesday, saying that some 25,200 trucks had entered Gaza during the truce and that there was “enough food for a long period of time, if Hamas lets the civilians have it.” But U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric on Tuesday dismissed this claim as “ridiculous,” adding that the “WFP doesn’t close its bakeries for fun.” “If there’s no flour, if there’s no cooking gas, the bakeries cannot open,” she added.

Canadian member of parliament Paul Chiang has quit as a Liberal Party candidate over comments he made suggesting a political rival should be turned over to the Chinese consulate in return for a bounty. Tay, who is running for the Conservatives in the 28 April federal election, is one of a number of overseas activists who have been targeted by Hong Kong police for allegedly breaking the city's national security law. Chiang said he is withdrawing from the race to avoid "distractions in this critical moment". Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who had previously defended Chiang, said on Tuesday he had accepted his candidate's resignation. "As I said yesterday, his comments were deeply troubling and regrettable," said Carney as he campaigned in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Liberal leader had said the day before that Chiang would stay on as the party's candidate in a Toronto-area riding given that he had apologised for the remarks, which were made earlier this year at a Chinese-language media event. Tay, who was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Canada as an adult, is co-founder of Canada-based nonprofit group HongKonger Station, which promotes democracy and free speech. Last December, Hong Kong police offered a HK$1m (C$184,000; $128,000) bounty for information leading to Tay's arrest, accusing him of incitement to secession and collusion with a foreign country. The Conservative candidate, who is also running for a Toronto area seat, rejected Chiang's apology and called for his firing. "His threatening public comments were intended to intimidate me, and they must not be tolerated," Tay said in a statement. Chiang announced he was stepping down in a social media post shortly after midnight, saying he had served with the "fullest commitment to keeping people safe and protecting our country's values". His resignation came after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told Canadian media the force is "looking into the matter". "Foreign actor interference, including instances of transnational repression, continues to be a pervasive threat in Canada," a spokesperson told Globe and Mail. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre on Tuesday criticised Carney for not removing Chiang when the comments came to light late last week. "Mr Carney will never put this country first, he will always put himself first," he said. Meanwhile, the Conservatives removed one of their candidates over comments made on a 2022 podcast, where he appeared to joke about former prime minister Justin Trudeau deserving the death penalty. Poilievre told CTV News, which first reported on the remarks, that they were "unacceptable".

HONG KONG — The Chinese military conducted large-scale drills around Taiwan on Tuesday in what it said was a “stern warning” to pro-independence forces on the Beijing-claimed island, as it called Taiwan’s president a “parasite.” The Taiwanese government condemned the exercises, in which Chinese army, navy, air and rocket forces closed in on waters to the north, south and east of Taiwan, according to China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). No live fire has been reported. Tensions have been heightened since last month, when Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te described China as a “foreign hostile force” and proposed 17 measures to counter threats from Beijing, which has not ruled out the use of force to achieve its unification goal. Beijing has rebuffed offers of talks from Lai, who says only the island democracy’s 23 million people can decide their future. The Chinese drills were accompanied by the release of multiple propaganda images and videos. One cartoon video titled “Shell” depicts Lai, whom Beijing calls a “separatist” and “troublemaker,” as a “parasite” held by a pair of chopsticks over a Taiwan on fire. “Parasite poisoning Taiwan Island. Parasite hollowing island out. Parasite courting ultimate destruction,” text in the video reads. A poster titled “Closing In” shows Chinese ships and aircraft surrounding Taiwan, while a video called “Subdue Demons and Vanquish Evils” features the monkey king from the Chinese epic “Journey to the West.” China’s Taiwan Affairs Office called the military drills a “resolute punishment for the reckless provocations” of the Lai administration. “Pursuing ‘Taiwan independence’ means pushing the people of Taiwan into a dangerous situation of war,” spokesperson Zhu Fenglian said at a briefing in Beijing on Tuesday. “We will not allow any person or force to separate Taiwan from China.” A spokesperson for the PLA’s Eastern Theater Command called the exercises a “legitimate and necessary” action to safeguard China’s sovereignty. “These drills mainly focus on sea-air combat-readiness patrols, joint seizure of comprehensive superiority, assault on maritime and ground targets, and blockade on key areas and sea lanes,” the spokesperson, Shi Yi, said in a statement Tuesday. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said that as of 3:30 p.m. Tuesday local time (3:30 a.m. Tuesday ET), it had detected 71 Chinese military aircraft, 13 warships and four coast guard vessels around the island. Thirty-six of the aircraft crossed the median line that until recent years had served as an unofficial buffer in the Taiwan Strait. “We strongly condemn the PRC’s irrational provocations,” the ministry said in an earlier statement Tuesday, referring to China’s official name, the People’s Republic of China. “We firmly oppose PLA’s actions that undermine regional peace.” Taiwan has activated aircraft, navy ships and land-based missile systems in response to the Chinese drills, the ministry said, adding that it has been tracking China’s first domestically built Shandong aircraft carrier since Saturday. The United States, which has no official relations with Taiwan but is the island’s most important international backer, said later Tuesday that China’s military activities and rhetoric “only serve to exacerbate tensions and put the region’s security and the world’s prosperity at risk.” “In the face of China’s intimidation tactics and destabilizing behavior, the United States’ enduring commitment to our allies and partners, including Taiwan, continues,” the State Department said in a statement. The drills on Tuesday were higher-profile than the three China has held around Taiwan since President Donald Trump was elected in November. They also did not carry the same “Joint Sword” code name as exercises of similar scale last October and May, which Zhang Chi, a professor at the PLA’s National Defense University in Beijing, told state-run broadcaster CCTV indicates that these exercises have become a “new normal” for the Chinese military. Beijing “very obviously” deployed more troops than in earlier joint air and maritime combat-readiness patrols, said Ying-Yu Lin, assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies at Tamkang University in New Taipei City. The exercises were intended to “test the U.S. bottom line” on Taiwan before a potential meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, Lin told NBC News in a phone interview Tuesday. The drills took place two days after Pete Hegseth concluded his first trip to Asia as defense secretary. During his visit to U.S. allies the Philippines and Japan, Hegseth criticized China’s growing aggression in the region and called Japan an “indispensable partner” in deterring it. Taiwanese Defense Minister Wellington Koo said Tuesday that Beijing was an “obvious troublemaker” disrupting peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, and that the “parasite” rhetoric fully demonstrated Beijing’s provocation. He told reporters the Chinese military should focus on tackling internal corruption rather than holding drills in the region. Last year, Beijing fired two former defense ministers amid an anti-corruption campaign in its military. Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council condemned the Chinese drills, urging Beijing to “immediately cease irrational provocative actions.” China’s “militaristic provocations not only escalate tensions in the Taiwan Strait but also severely undermine regional peace and stability and threaten global security,” it said in a statement Tuesday. Though Taiwanese authorities view Beijing as a serious threat, most people on the island believe China is “unlikely or very unlikely” to invade in the next five years, according to a poll released last year by Taiwan’s top military think tank.

The country’s ruling ZANU-PF party has said it wants to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term in office by two years until 2030. HARARE, Zimbabwe — Police deployed heavily in Zimbabwe’s capital and other cities on Monday, largely neutralizing a call by veterans for massive protests against plans to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule. Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party said in January it wanted to extend Mnangagwa’s term in office by two years until 2030. Mnangagwa, who first came to power in 2017 after his long-term mentor Robert Mugabe was ousted in a coup, is serving his final term. Independence war veterans led by Blessed Geza previously supported Mnangagwa but have turned against him, accusing him of seeking to cling to power. Anticipating possible unrest, businesses barricaded their premises and car dealerships cleared their showrooms in recent days.Most businesses, schools and vendors across the capital, Harare, as well as in the second-largest city of Bulawayo and other towns, stayed closed, as large numbers of police officers patrolled the empty streets. “The situation in the country is peaceful,” police said in a statement, encouraging people to continue with daily activities. Still, in the western outskirts of Harare, police officers threw tear gas to disperse a small group of protesters chanting “we reject 2030,” a reference to the plans to extend Mnangagwa’s term. Some analysts said the economic shutdown could still send a message to political leaders.“The stay-away is a massive statement by the masses of Zimbabwe. Those in power have reason to fear,” political analyst Ibbo Mandaza said. Geza, the veteran leader who called for the protest and has mostly communicated through videos posted on social media platforms, did not react publicly on Monday morning. The veterans remain influential within ZANU-PF, and appear to be filling a void left by opposition parties weakened by internal divisions and a war of attrition with the ruling party. Mnangagwa has repeatedly denied intending to prolong his presidency, but the veterans accuse him of pursuing the plan using proxies. Zimbabwe’s 2013 constitution limits presidents to two five-year terms.

The strike threatens a truce both Israel and Hezbollah have accused each other of violating. An Israeli airstrike killed four people in Beirut early Tuesday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said, rocking an already shaky ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. The operation marks the latest threat to a fragile four-month truce during which both Israel and Hezbollah have accused each other of violating its terms, and came the day after United Nations officials demanded “answers and justice” over the discovery of the bodies of 15 aid workers found in a mass grave in the Gaza Strip. In a joint statement, the Israel Defense Forces, the Shin Bet — Israel's internal security agency — and its Mossad intelligence agency, said the strike on the southern Beirut suburb and Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiyeh had killed Hassan Ali Badir, who they said was a Hezbollah militant and member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard who had recently assisted Hamas. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar told a press briefing Tuesday that Badir was a “ticking bomb” for an attack in the immediate future, adding that Israel expected the Lebanese government to act against any terrorists operating within its territory. While Hezbollah did not confirm whether Badir had been killed, Ibrahim Al-Moussawi, one of the group's members of Lebanon's Parliament, condemned the operation that left seven people injured and said it violated international laws. “What happened was a major aggression that took the situation to a completely new phase,” Al-Moussawi told NBC News. “We hold the international community and the United States responsible for this crime.” Lebanese President Joseph Aoun also criticized the bombardment, saying in a post on X on Tuesday that Israel’s growing aggression in Lebanon had prompted the country to seek support from its international allies. Israel did not issue any evacuation warnings for the area ahead of the strike, while the State Department said in a statement Tuesday that hostilities had resumed “because terrorists launched rockets into Israel from Lebanon,” Reuters reported. Israel and Hezbollah's yearlong conflict was paused in November by a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, which required both Israeli troops and the Iran-backed militant group to vacate southern Lebanon while Lebanese troops were deployed to the area. Both sides have accused each other of violating those terms after Israel delayed its withdrawal in January and said it had intercepted rockets fired from Lebanon in March, for which Hezbollah denies responsibility. The current conflict between Israel and Lebanon erupted after Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel in solidarity with its ally Hamas, following the Hamas-led terrorist attacks of Oct. 7 2023, in which 1,200 people were killed and around 250 others were taken hostage, according to Israeli officials. Since then, Israel’s ongoing military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 50,000 people, including thousands of children, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in the enclave run by the militant group. The ministry said Tuesday that Israeli forces had killed 42 people in the past 24 hours, with many victims still trapped under rubble. That figure has continued to climb since Israel's military shattered a two-month-old ceasefire last month, with its assault on the enclave having since intensified with the stated aim of eliminating Hamas to prevent a repeat of the Oct. 7 attacks. On Monday, U.N. officials demanded “answers and justice” from Israel after the bodies of 15 aid workers were found buried in a mass grave in the southern Gaza Strip. The humanitarian workers, who worked for the Red Crescent, Palestinian Civil Defense and the U.N., had been killed and buried in the sand near “wrecked & well-marked vehicles” while trying to save lives, U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher said in a post on X on Monday. The bodies included eight of the nine aid workers who had gone missing when tending to the injured in Rafah on March 23, with one worker still unaccounted for, the Red Cross and the Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement Monday. They added that the bodies of six civil defense members and one U.N. employee had also been recovered. Israel’s military has not yet commented on why the bodies were buried beneath the sand or why the vehicles were found crushed. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian Refugees, said the discarded bodies had amounted to "a profound violation of human dignity” in a post on X om Monday. The incident has brought the death toll of aid workers in Gaza to 408, he added.

School President Christopher Eisgruber insists the institution is "combating antisemitism" and will "vigorously defend academic freedom." The Trump administration cut funding to a host of Princeton University research projects, the school said Tuesday, making it the latest Ivy League institution whose federal backing has been reduced or revoked. The university received notifications from the Energy Department, NASA, the Defense Department and other government agencies that funding for several dozen research grants had been suspended, Princeton President Chris Eisgruber said in a statement Tuesday. "The full rationale for this action is not yet clear, but I want to be clear about the principles that will guide our response," he said. In recent funding cuts targeting Ivy League schools Harvard and Columbia, the White House demanded action over allegations of antisemitism that came from last year's student protests against Israel's military action in the Gaza Strip. "Princeton University will comply with the law," Eisgruber said. "We are committed to fighting antisemitism and all forms of discrimination, and we will cooperate with the government in combating antisemitism. Princeton will also vigorously defend academic freedom and the due process rights of this University." Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, a Jewish chaplain at Princeton, said the school was being unfairly targeted. “Princeton’s campus and campus climate and experience is in no way defined by antisemitism,” Steinlauf said Tuesday. "In fact, the experience of Jewish students on Princeton’s campus is one of students who are thriving and empowered and strong,” he said. “And they feel physically safe." Columbia eventually agreed to implement a series of policy changes, including overhauling protest rules and reviewing its Middle Eastern studies department. An Education Department spokesperson declined to comment Tuesday and referred questions to the Energy Department, the Defense Department and NASA. A Defense Department official declined to comment, and representatives for the two other agencies did not immediately respond. College campuses across America erupted in protests a year ago as Israel continued to pound the Gaza Strip in its effort to root out Hamas fighters who carried out the Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel. Protests at Columbia might have had the highest profile as demonstrators eventually broke into Hamilton Hall, drawing the response of NYPD officers to clear the scene. The Morningside Heights campus remains largely closed to the public, nearly a year after the protests ended.

A woman has completed her attempt to traverse solo across Canada's largest island. Covering 150 miles (241km) on foot and by ski while pulling a sledge across Baffin Island, Camilla Hempleman-Adams battled temperatures as low as minus 40C and winds of 75kmph. The 32-year-old from Wiltshire had hoped to complete the challenge in 14 days, but finished a day faster than anticipated. She said: "It's been a really tough two weeks, but an incredible two weeks." "I'm feeling pretty exhausted, I have very sore feet, but it's nice to be back in civilisation," she added. The solo trek across Baffin Island - Canada's largest island - took Ms Hempleman-Adams from Qikiqtarjuaq to Pangnirtung, through Auyuittuq National Park.