America’s enemies already know the CIA can find them. But according to one of the agency’s best-known whistleblowers, they should now be afraid of how it can do it.

Former CIA counterterrorism officer John Kiriakou painted a chilling picture of an intelligence machine that has surged far ahead of public understanding – a system turbo-charged by cutting-edge surveillance tech, robotized warfare, and covert powers that have survived every scandal of the last two decades.

And Kiriakou should know. He spent 15 years inside the CIA’s most secret units, helped run operations in Pakistan, and became the first agency insider to publicly confirm that the US used waterboarding – a revelation that landed him behind bars.

Today, he remains one of America’s most outspoken critics of the intelligence world he once served.

Now, after a bruising year for US spy agencies – and just weeks after an inspector general blasted War Secretary Pete Hegseth in the explosive Signalgate scandal for mishandling sensitive battlefield information on a messaging app – Kiriakou said the real story is bigger, darker, and far more dangerous.

Because while Washington frets over leaks and political infighting, the CIA and its sister agencies have been quietly perfecting tools that would have seemed like science fiction a decade ago.

Speaking with the Daily Mail, Kiriakou said the truth is hiding in plain sight – in the massive 2017 Vault 7 leak published by WikiLeaks.

The documents revealed that the CIA and NSA had pioneered a suite of cyberweapons capable of turning everyday consumer gadgets into spying tools.

An aerial photo shows a former CIA black site in Lithuania used for torture during the war on terror

Kiriakou left the CIA in 2007 and became the first former officer to publicly confirm the agency had used waterboarding and other torture-like methods

The problem, he said, is that almost no one bothered to read them.

‘People don’t realise what the CIA is able to do with technology – the information is out there, but nobody read the Vault 7 papers,’ he told the Daily Mail.

And what can those tools do? Quite a lot.

Kiriakou said the CIA can listen through phones, laptops, and even smart TVs, even when they appear to be switched off.

The agency can infiltrate new consumer tech as soon as it hits the market. And it can reportedly hijack modern vehicle computers – remotely.

‘They can crash a car and kill you if they want to… and they can do it through a satellite,’ he said.

It’s the kind of claim that sends conspiracy theorists into overdrive. But Kiriakou insists the capability exists – and that nothing in the leaked documents contradicts it.

But the CIA’s cyber tools, he said, are only one part of a rapidly shifting battlefield.

He argued that the next phase of warfare – one already underway inside DARPA, the Pentagon’s ultra-secretive tech agency – will involve robot dogs, robot soldiers, and automated weapons systems operating alongside or instead of human troops.

‘I really believe the next war the United States fights is hardly going to have any human beings in it,’ he said.

‘Robot dogs and robot warriors are not sci-fi anymore – they’re almost upon us.’

The push toward autonomous warfare mirrors China’s rapid advances in drone and AI weapons; while Russia’s cyber units are among the best on the planet.

And it’s not only foreign adversaries who are concerned about US capabilities.

‘It would be logical to use these technologies for crowd control, riot control… to infiltrate demonstrations and political gatherings,’ he warned.

One of Kiriakou’s most explosive assertions is that the US government maintains a weekly ‘kill list’, drawn up by a National Security Council committee every Tuesday morning.

According to him, the CIA has a dedicated unit whose job is to take the list, travel to whichever country the targets are hiding in, ‘kill the person,’ return home, and move on to the next name.

The targets, he said, are generally terrorist leaders – but the legal and moral issues are immense.

Satellite imagery of Salt Pit outside of Kabul, Afghanistan, which was an isolated CIA black site prison and interrogation center

Human fighters will only play a minor role in America’s wars of the future, said  ex-CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou

Waterboarding, demonstrated here as part of a political protest, was a controversial topic in the War on Terror 

A US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper on the tarmac in Puerto Rico, part of Washington’s campaign against Venezuela’s leaders   

He said officials justify the program by arguing that it prevents another 9/11.

Kiriakou called it immoral and illegal, though he notes the machinery behind it is decades old and unlikely to change.

Washington insists it shut down its network of secret prisons – the notorious black sites used for the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program after 9/11. But Kiriakou doesn’t buy it.

‘I believe those sites still exist,’ he said. ‘We just have to take the CIA’s word for it – and I can’t take their word for it.’

He pointed out that even members of Congress’ intelligence committees were once barred from knowing the full scope of the detention program. Only the top two lawmakers in each chamber were given access.

If black sites continue today, he said, they would be so heavily classified that ‘almost nobody would know.’

The CIA did not answer the Daily Mail’s request for comment. Officially, the agency abandoned enhanced interrogation techniques in 2009.

Kiriakou is also watching the situation in Venezuela, where President Donald Trump recently took the unprecedented step of publicly authorizing CIA covert action – something no commander-in-chief has ever done.

He speculated that the agency would be drawing up plans to seize the presidential palace, capture President Nicolás Maduro, take control of state media, and secure key intersections in the capital Caracas.

Success, he said, would hinge on winning over the military – the one element the CIA cannot control.

He added that Trump may topple Maduro without ‘firing a single shot’ through a mixture of military pressure, oil seizures and psychological operations.

It may not even be illegal – the president has wide powers to launch covert missions abroad under what’s known as Title 50.

But regime change, he warned, is only the easy part.

‘It’s what you do the next day that’s hard,’ he said, pointing to the implosion of Iraq after the 2003 invasion and other American debacles.

Perhaps Kiriakou’s most unsettling claim is not about technology at all – but about power. 

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden briefs delegates at an educational conference in Moscow, Russia, where he now lives

CIA Director John Ratcliffe before briefing lawmakers on covert military strikes in the seas around Venezuela 

He argued that the intelligence community barely shifts course between administrations.

‘I’ve come around to the belief that the deep state is real,’ he said. ‘These people know they can out-wait presidents. They don’t have to follow an order they don’t like.’

He called it a bureaucracy obsessed with budget growth, internal empire-building, and protecting its own survival – a machine so large that elected leaders can struggle to control it.

Kiriakou left the CIA in 2007 and became the first former officer to publicly confirm the agency had used waterboarding and other ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ — which he called torture. 

He was later indicted under the Espionage Act and pleaded guilty to revealing the identity of a covert operative, receiving a 30-month sentence and serving nearly two years. 

He remains the only person to go to prison over the CIA’s torture program. 

Since his release in 2015, Kiriakou has pushed for intelligence reform and transparency, writing, speaking, and co-founding Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. 

On the home front, Kiriakou is blunt: Americans have become frighteningly complacent.

Despite whistleblower Edward Snowden’s leaks, the Patriot Act, mass surveillance, and the Utah mega-facility capable of storing every American’s calls, texts, and emails for 500 years, there has been almost no public outrage, he said.

‘I’m scared the most about our loss of civil liberties in the United States… and nobody seems willing to do anything about it,’ he said.

‘Are we that cowed that we just accept this is what government is going to do?’

For Kiriakou, a man who sacrificed his career and freedom to expose CIA torture, the answer may be the most alarming revelation of all.

Kiriakou’s new show Whistleblowers will air from March 2026, featuring interviews with other insiders who risked everything to expose wrongdoing. 

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Two amber alerts for cold were issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) with affected services warned of a “rise in deaths” amid expected chilly weather

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Brits are braced for a freezing start to the new year after health experts issued an amber weather warning for cold.

Two amber alerts for cold were issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), with affected services warned of a “rise in deaths” amid weather that is “likely to cause significant impacts across health and social care”. The two warnings, designed to alert the health and social care sectors, were issued for the northwest and northeast and were brought into effect from 8pm on December 28. Both alerts are due to last until 8pm on January 5 next year.

The UKHSA said there will be a “likely increase in demand for health services”, along with “temperatures inside places like hospitals, care homes, and clinics dropping below the levels recommended for assessing health risks”. There are also further challenges for keeping indoor temperatures at the recommended 18C, while there could also be staffing issues due to potential travel delays and impacts on the transport and energy sectors.

The North East and North West are under an amber warning

A yellow cold warning, meaning there is a slightly lower risk than the amber alerts in place, is in place across much of England country with the following areas affected: southwest; southeast; London; East of England; the Midlands and Yorkshire and The Humber.

Dr Agostinho Sousa, Head of Extreme Events and Health Protection at UKHSA, said: “As the colder weather sets in it is vital to check in on friends, family and neighbours that are most vulnerable. The forecasted temperatures can have a serious impact on the health of some people, leading to increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and chest infections, particularly for individuals over the age of 65 and those with pre-existing health conditions.”

Met Office Deputy Chief Forecaster Mark Sidaway said Brits are likley to see an icy blast as planet Earth spins into a new year. “It certainly looks like we are in for a taste of ‘winter’ as we welcome in the New Year, initially in the north, but more widely across the UK for the first week of 2026,” he said.

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“Arctic air and strong northerly winds will bring cold or very cold conditions to all parts of the UK, and it will feel especially cold in the strong winds. Widespread and locally severe frosts are expected, along with the first snow of the winter for many.”

The UK’s weather service has issued two yellow weather warnings for later this week, with snow and ice expected in northern part of Scotland across January 1 and the following day.

“A yellow warning for snow and ice has been issued for northern Scotland on New Year’s Day and beyond, where frequent and heavy snow showers may lead to some travel disruption,” Mr Sidaway said. “These colder conditions and wintry hazards – snow, ice and strong winds – will develop more widely as we enter the New Year, with more warnings for snow and ice likely. It looks like this cold spell will last through at least the first week of January, so it’s important people keep up to date with the latest forecast and warnings.”

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Protests have erupted across Syria’s coastal regions, marking a new wave of sectarian upheaval since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime a year ago.

During the protests on Sunday, gunfire was directed at Syrian security forces at the al-Azhari roundabout in Latakia while unknown assailants threw a hand grenade at the al-Anaza police station in the district of Banias in the Tartous governorate.

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The Alawite minority, which al-Assad is a member of, held the protests after at least eight people were killed in the bombing of an Alawite mosque in Homs on Friday. They are demanding security guarantees and political reforms.

Several cities along Syria’s Mediterranean coast have experienced deadly sectarian violence over the past year, raising questions about whether the interim government can maintain unity in a nation still scarred by 14 years of civil war.

So what are the protests about, and what do they mean for political and social stability in Syria?

What sparked the protests?

The bombing of the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in the Wadi al-Dahab neighbourhood of Homs during Friday prayers led to the demonstrations.

The bombing was claimed by a little-known group called Saraya Ansar al-Sunna, which said on its Telegram channel that the attack was intended to target members of the Alawite sect.

Syria’s security and political establishment was dominated by Alawites until al-Assad’s regime fell in December 2024.

Saraya Ansar al-Sunna also had claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing of a Damascus church ‍in June that killed at least 20 people.

Syria’s government condemned the mosque attack on Friday, describing it as the latest in a series of “desperate attempts to undermine security and stability and sow chaos among the Syrian people”.

Who’s leading the protests?

The protests were primarily organised after calls for action by Ghazal Ghazal, an Alawite religious figure who lives outside Syria with little known about his whereabouts.

He heads a group called the Supreme Alawite Islamic Council in Syria and Abroad.

“We want political federalism. … We want to determine our own destiny,” Ghazal said in a video message on Facebook, referring to a system of government under which power is shared between the national government and its states.

Protesters also called for greater protections for the Alawite community, accountability for attacks against civilians and political guarantees.

In coastal areas, including the cities and wider governorates of Latakia and Tartous, clashes broke out between Alawite protesters and counterprotesters supporting the new government.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Latakia reported seeing counterprotesters throwing rocks at Alawite demonstrators while a group of protesters beat a counterprotester who entered their area.

Syria’s Ministry of Defence said on Sunday that army units had moved into the centres of these cities after assaults by “outlaw groups” targeting civilians and security personnel with the aim of re-establishing stability.

Have there been any casualties?

SANA, the official Syrian news agency, reported that four people have been killed and more than 100 injured in the unrest in Latakia.

Quoting officials from Syria’s Directorate of Health, SANA said injuries included “stabbings, blows from stones, and gunfire targeting both security personnel and civilians”.

Later on Sunday, the Interior Ministry reported that one of its security officers had been killed in the clashes.

Two security personnel were wounded in Tartous when unknown assailants threw a hand grenade at the al-Anaza police station.

Who are the Alawites?

The Alawites are a religious minority in Syria and are the second largest religious group after Sunni Muslims.

Alawites make up 10 percent of Syria’s 23 million people, but this community was politically dominant under al-Assad, who ruled Syria beginning in 2000 and recruited heavily from the Alawite community for his army and security apparatus.

Members of the Syrian security forces stand atop tanks after being deployed during protests in Latakia on December 28, 2025 [Karam al-Masri/Reuters]

Since al-Assad’s overthrow, Syria has seen several instances of sectarian violence. In March, violence broke out in coastal cities, including Latakia, Banias, Tartous and Jableh, and government-allied groups were accused of carrying out summary executions, mostly of Alawite civilians.

A government committee tasked with investigating the attacks concluded that about 1,400 people were killed during several days of violence.

In July, violence between Druze and Sunni Bedouin communities flared up in the southern governorate of Suwayda, although experts say this conflict is rooted in more complex issues than just sectarianism, including in historical disputes over land. That unrest escalated into Israel bombing Syria’s Ministry of Defence and other targets in the capital Damascus – ostensibly to protect the Druze, although local activists and analysts said Israel’s aim was to fuel internal instability.

Alawites have also voiced grievances about discrimination in public sector hiring since al-Assad’s fall as well as the detention of young Alawite men without charge.

Will the Syrian government be able to maintain peace?

Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has emphasised the need to “preserve national unity and domestic peace”.

At the Doha Forum this month, al-Sharaa said people in Syria “simply did not know each other well” due to issues inherited from the al-Assad regime.

Syria’s enduring sectarian divides and the central government’s limited authority are fuelling demands from minorities for decentralisation, according to Rob Geist Pinfold, a scholar of international security at King’s College London.

The Alawites are not the only minority who have aired concerns about sectarianism since the fall of al-Assad, Geist Pinfold told Al Jazeera.

The interim government so far has failed to integrate regions controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) into the new government, he added, despite a March 10 agreement between them that planned for integration.

This is largely down to mistrust, experts said.

Minority groups, including Alawites and the Druze, “simply don’t think that the government has their best interests at heart and actually see the government as a security threat”, Geist Pinfold explained.

“Syria is caught up in this vicious cycle where the government doesn’t have trust with minority groups. It can’t exert enough power to bring those minority groups into the fold,” he said, adding that it also doesn’t want to do so in an “oppressive or repressive way that would only alienate them further”.

What will happen next?

Over the next few days, Geist Pinfold said, there could be two potential outcomes.

“The positive outcome would be that the Syrian government reaches some kind of understanding or a tentative understanding with the SDF in eastern Syria that points towards a kind of roadmap for a future integration,” he noted, adding that such a step could ease tensions not only in eastern Syria but in other regions as well.

However, he warned that continued violence could spark deeper ethnic and sectarian divides.

“Syria stands on the edge of a very, very dangerous precipice,” he cautioned, comparing the risk to Iraq’s descent into mass sectarian violence after the 2003 United States-led invasion.

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Benjamin Netanyahu is to meet Donald Trump at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday evening amid growing fears Israel could launch new offensives against regional enemies, potentially plunging the Middle East further into instability.

The Israeli prime minister left Israel on Sunday on his fifth visit to see Trump in the US this year.

High on the agenda will be the ceasefire in Gaza, which in October halted the devastating two-year-long war. Though the terms agreed for an initial phase have been largely completed, with Israel’s forces pulling back to new positions and Hamas releasing all living and all but one of the dead hostages, immense challenges face the implementation of the second phase of the president’s 20-point plan.

There are also fears Israel will launch new offensives against Hezbollah in Lebanon, breaking a ceasefire established more than a year ago, or against Iran, which it accuses of accelerating the manufacture of ballistic missiles in recent months.

Gershon Baskin, the co-head of the peace-building commission at the Alliance for Two States, who has taken part in back-channel negotiations with Hamas, said the timing of Netanyahu’s trip was “very significant” for Gaza.

“Phase 1 is basically over, there’s one remaining Israeli deceased hostage which [Hamas] are having difficulty finding,” he said.

Both sides accuse each other of ceasefire violations. Hamas has failed explicitly to commit to disarmament and has had considerable success in imposing its authority in the parts of Gaza where almost all the population is concentrated. Israel appears reluctant to withdraw from the 53% of Gaza it now controls or to allow free passage of aid into the territory.

“Phase 2 has to begin … and I think the Americans realise that it’s late because Hamas has had too much time to re-establish its presence and this is certainly not a situation that the Americans want to leave in place,” Baskin said.

More than 70,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, died in Gaza during the war and almost all the territory’s 2.3 million population was displaced. About 400 Palestinians have died in Gaza since the October ceasefire, and huge numbers continue to live in conditions of acute hardship.

Donald Trump talks with Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in October. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/AP

In recent weeks, heavy rain and cold temperatures have compounded the suffering in Gaza, where most housing and infrastructure have been badly damaged or razed.

The war was triggered by a surprise attack by Hamas in southern Israel in 2023, in which 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed and 250 others abducted.

Under the next stages of Trump’s plan, an interim authority made up of nonaligned Palestinian technocrats is to govern the Palestinian territory instead of Hamas and an international stabilisation force (ISF) of thousands of troops is to be deployed.

Hamas’s armed wing reiterated on Monday that it would not surrender its weapons.

“Our people are defending themselves and will not give up their weapons as long as the occupation remains,” the new spokesperson for the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, who has adopted the name of his late predecessor Abu Obeida, said in a video statement.

US officials have suggested the composition of the new authority could be announced in January.

On Friday, the US news outlet Axios reported senior Trump officials were growing frustrated “as Netanyahu has taken steps to undermine the fragile ceasefire and stall the peace process”. Analysts in Israel and overseas agree.

“There are more and more signs that the American administration is getting frustrated with Netanyahu,” said Yossi Mekelberg, a Middle East expert at the London-based thinktank Chatham House.

“The question is what it’s going to do about it, because phase 2 is right now going nowhere,” Mekelberg added.

For Netanyahu, a priority will be convincing Trump to allow Israel to act to prevent Iran from repairing the damage inflicted on its nuclear programme in its short war with Israel and the US this summer, or building its ballistic missile capabilities.

The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said on Saturday that his country was in a full-scale war with the US, Israel and Europe. He added that the conflict was “more complicated and more difficult” than the Iran-Iraq war, which left more than 1 million casualties on both sides.

Meanwhile, efforts to secure a security agreement between Israel and Syria have failed to make significant progress and will also be on the agenda at Mar-a-Lago, local media in Israel said. Israeli officials have also called for more effective efforts to disarm Hezbollah in accordance with the 2024 ceasefire in Lebanon.

Netanyahu faces an election within 10 months, and the looming polls will influence his agenda, Mekelberg said. “Everything is connected to [his] staying in power,” he said.

Polls show Netanyahu’s current coalition would struggle to form a government if elections were held now, with many voters angry over the failures that led to the Hamas raid of 2023, moves to continue the exemption of most ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from compulsory military service in Israel and a series of scandals among other issues.

A close relationship with Trump would reinforce Netanyahu’s appeal among undecided voters and his base, and this suggests any public disagreement between the two leaders is extremely unlikely, analysts said.

Netanyahu is expected to seek to convince Trump of the need for Israel, which relies on the US for many of its defence needs, to maintain a military technological edge over potential regional enemies. Many Israeli officials were shaken when Trump said this year that he would allow the sale of F-35 fighter planes to Saudi Arabia, which he described as a “great ally”. The state-of-the-art stealth aircraft was key to Israel’s successes against Iran in this summer’s war.

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British-Egyptian democracy activist Alaa Abd El Fattah has apologised for several of his old tweets that have resurfaced, as calls grow for him to be deported from the UK days after he arrived following his release from an Egyptian jail.

Tory and Reform UK leaders say the home secretary should consider whether Mr Abd El Fattah, a dual national, can be removed after social media messages showed him calling for Zionists and police to be killed.

The Times reports some senior Labour MPs are also calling for his citizenship to be removed.

After reviewing the historic posts, Mr Abd El Fattah said: “I do understand how shocking and hurtful they are, and for that I unequivocally apologise.”

He added: “I am shaken that, just as I am being reunited with my family for the first time in 12 years, several historic tweets of mine have been republished and used to question and attack my integrity and values, escalating to calls for the revocation of my citizenship.”

Mr Abd El Fattah said he took allegations of antisemitism “very seriously” while arguing some of the posts had been “completely twisted out of their meaning”.

Sir Keir Starmer has been criticised for saying he was “delighted” by Mr Abd El Fattah’s arrival in the UK on Friday, three months after he was freed from prison in Egypt, but it is understood he was unaware of the historical messages.

The prime minister’s official spokesman said: “We welcome the return of a British citizen unfairly detained abroad, as we would in all cases and as we have done in the past.”

He added that the government has “condemned the nature of these historic tweets, and we consider them to be abhorrent”.

It is understood that the Foreign Office has started an internal review into how the case has been handled by successive governments.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage both said Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood should look at whether Abd El Fattah’s citizenship could be revoked to enable his swift removal from the UK.

Farage said in a letter to Mahmood: “It should go without saying that anyone who possesses racist and anti-British views such as those of [Mr Abd El Fattah] should not be allowed into the UK.”

A government source said Abd El Fatteh arrived in the country as a British citizen and there were no legal avenues available to block his entry, even if officials had been aware of his previous social media posts.

A 2016 court case also meant there was no “good character” test which Abd El Fatteh needed to meet when he successfully applied for citizenship in 2021 under the then-Conservative government. He was eligible for citizenship through his mother, who was born in London.

It is understood that Downing Street believes there is a high bar to someone having their citizenship revoked because they must have either obtained citizenship by fraud or be deemed to pose a significant national security threat – a test unlikely to be met in this case.

Any decision of this nature would also be subject to legal challenge.

The Foreign Office said it had been “a long-standing priority under successive governments” to work for Abd El Fattah’s release.

The 44-year-old was convicted in 2021 of “spreading fake news” in Egypt for sharing a Facebook post about torture in the country following a trial that human rights groups said was grossly unfair.

He was granted citizenship in December 2021 through his London-born mother – when the Conservatives were in power and Dame Priti Patel was home secretary.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp – who was an immigration minister under Patel but left the role in September 2021 before citizenship was granted – told the BBC he did not know of these details at the time. He added he was now clear in his mind that “this man should have his citizenship revoked”.

“There is no excuse for what he wrote,” Philp told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

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In one resurfaced tweet, from 2012, Abd El Fattah appears to say: “I am a racist, I don’t like white people”. In another, he says he considers “killing any colonialists and specially Zionists heroic, we need to kill more of them”.

He is also accused of saying police do not have rights and “we should kill them all”.

“There is no excuse for that kind of language,” Philp said on Monday. “People who express that kind of hatred, that kind of anti-white racism, that kind of extremism who seek to incite violence, have no place in the United Kingdom.”

Appearing on the same programme, Dame Emily Thornberry, who chairs the Commons foreign affairs committee, accused Philp of “throwing ideas around that were just not based in law”.

“The bottom and top of it is that he [Abd El Fattah] is a British citizen,” she told Today.

“He was entitled to British citizenship, he claimed it so he is a British citizen. The British government has been doing their utmost to get him back into the country and out of jail.”

The UK has responsibilities under international law to avoid leaving people stateless and British citizenship can only be stripped from someone eligible to apply for citizenship in another country.

Badenoch said Abd El Fattah’s reported comments were “disgusting and abhorrent” and anti-British, adding that citizenship decisions “must take account of social media activity, public statements, and patterns of belief”.

She said: “It is one thing to work for someone’s release from prison if they’ve been treated unfairly as previous governments did. It is quite another to elevate them, publicly and uncritically, into a moral hero.”

She added that Abd El Fattah “should have received a free and fair trial in Egypt”, but “there ends my sympathy”.

In his letter to the home secretary, Farage said it was “astonishing” that neither MPs from Labour, the Conservatives or other parties carried out “basic due diligence” on Abd El Fattah while they campaigned for his release.

He said Starmer showed an “extraordinary error of judgement” when he posted on X welcoming Abd El Fattah’s return.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews said the case was of “profound concern”.

Adrian Cohen, the board’s senior vice-president, said: “His previous extremist and violent rhetoric aimed at ‘Zionists’ and white people in general is threatening to British Jews and the wider public.

“The cross-party campaign for such a person, and the warm welcome issued by the government, demonstrate a broken system with an astonishing lack of due diligence by the authorities.”

While conceding some of his comments were “shocking and hurtful”, Abd El Fattah contends some of the old messages were misinterpreted.

“For example, a tweet being shared to allege homophobia on my part was actually ridiculing homophobia,” he said in a statement.

“I have paid a steep price for my public support for LGBTQ+ rights in Egypt and the world.”

UK-based human rights group Amnesty International said it championed the activist’s case to uphold human rights and freedom of expression, and it does not condone “any statements that perpetuate hate, discrimination and division”.

A writer, intellectual and software developer, Abd El Fattah rose to prominence during an uprising in 2011 that forced the former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, to resign.

He has spent more than a decade of his life behind bars and his release in September after a presidential pardon followed a long campaign by his family and lobbying by the British government.

In 2014, Abd El Fattah was nominated for a European human rights award, the Sakharov Prize, but this was withdrawn over tweets about Israel he posted in 2012.

He said those comments had been part of a “private conversation” that took place during an Israeli offensive in Gaza and had been taken out of context.

After being removed from a travel ban list imposed by Egyptian authorities that kept him in the country for three months after his release from jail, Abd El Fattah has now been reunited with his 14-year-old son, who lives in Brighton.

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• JoJo Fletcher is sharing an update on her postpartum experience
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• Fletcher and her husband Jordan Rodgers welcomed their first baby, a girl named Romy Blair Rodgers, ahead of the holidays

JoJo Fletcher is sharing an update on her postpartum experience.

The Bachelorette alum, 35, shared a selfie of herself on her Instagram Stories wearing comfortable clothing as she held her newborn baby girl, Romy Blair Rodgers, close to her chest. In text above the photo, the new mom, who shares her daughter with husband Jordan Rodgers, opened up about how life has been since giving birth on Tuesday, Dec. 23.

“Hiiiii!! Mom & Dad and baby girl all doing good!” she began. “In the newborn trenches so haven’t had much time at all haha but wanted to say thank you so much for all the love and wishes. I’m recovering well.”

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“Jordy is literally DAD goals,” Fletcher added of her husband. “It’s crazy how fast he took to it and has been a total rockstar caring for me and Romy.”

The new mom went on to share how despite being in the “newborn trenches” and experiencing all the changes that comes with the new experience, she can only think about her “little angel.”

“It’s crazy what they say that you literally can be in full sleep deprivation mode but the second you look at her you forget it all bc the only thing you can think about is just how much you love this little angel. 🥹,” she wrote.

In the post, Fletcher also shared how “obsessed” she is with her baby girl.

“She’s delicious,” she said. “I’m so obsessed w her i can’t handle it.”

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The former Bachelorette star and Rodgers, 37, who married in 2022 after getting engaged during the reality show’s finale in 2016, shared the exciting news on Instagram on Thursday, Dec. 25. Their baby girl was born on the day before Christmas Eve after Fletcher visited her doctor for their weekly sonogram. However, they learned she needed an emergency cesarean section that same day.

“Merry Christmas to us 🥹❤️ What a whirlwind these last couple of days have been but in the most magical way,” Fletcher wrote, alongside a picture of Rodgers sleeping on a couch next to Romy. “Went in for our weekly sonogram this past Tuesday and found out we needed to deliver via emergency c section that day.”

“At 5:37pm on Dec 23 – we met our girl,” Fletcher continued. “Romy Blair Rodgers you are our whole world. Cant wait to share more but in the meantime soaking up these moments as a new family of 3 ❤️ + 2 😉 🐶🐶.”

Rodgers shared the post on his Instagram Stories, adding, “Santa really upped his game this year.”

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Anthony Joshua has been injured in a car crash in Nigeria, police say.

The boxer, 36, was travelling in the back of a black Lexus when the SUV hit a stationary red truck on a busy highway.

He suffered minor injuries and has been taken to hospital for treatment, while two other people in the vehicle died, police said.

The crash happened on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Makun, around 30 miles north-west of the country’s largest city Lagos, at around midday local time (11am GMT), according to the Nigerian federal road safety corps (FRSC).

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Joshua, who is the son of ‍British-Nigerian parents, attended a boarding school in Ikenne, 53 miles from where the crash happened, before returning to ‌Britain at age 12.

Footage posted on social media shows the British former world heavyweight champion apparently wincing in pain as he is helped out of a damaged vehicle by a crowd.

Other clips show him in an emergency vehicle, wearing only a pair of shorts, as he is driven away from the scene.

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The FRSC said a total of five adult males were involved in the crash, adding: “Two persons sadly lost their lives, one sustained injuries, while two others escaped unhurt. Anthony Joshua was rescued alive and sustained minor injuries.”

Police said in a statement the two people who died have been taken to Livewell Hospital Morgue, in nearby Sagamu, while the circumstances of the crash are “currently being investigated”.

“The Ogun State Police Command extends heartfelt condolences to the families of the deceased and assures the public that a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the accident has commenced,” a statement said.

The crash happened just over a week after Joshua knocked out US YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in the sixth round of their bout in Miami.

The fight marked the end of a 14-month hiatus for Joshua, who is expected to fight long-time rival Tyson Fury in 2026.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet the US president, his sixth such meeting since the Gaza war. The Israeli PM’s recent meetings with US presidents have been followed by escalations across the Middle East. Here’s a recap of some of those major events.

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The US has offered Ukraine security guarantees for 15 years, Volodymyr Zelensky has said, during talks on a revised peace plan with Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday.

The US president said an agreement on this point was “close to 95%” done, but Ukraine’s leader has since said he would like guarantees for up to 50 years.

President Zelensky outlined territorial issues and the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as the last unresolved matters, with little said on the future of Ukraine’s contested Donbas region.

Russia has previously rejected key parts of the plan, but a Kremlin spokesman agreed on Monday with Trump’s assessment that peace is closer, Russian-owned news agency Tass reported.

Addressing reporters at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort after Sunday’s meeting, Zelensky repeated his belief that an overall peace agreement was 90% of the way there, a figure he had given in the lead up to the visit.

Both the US and Ukrainian leaders also indicated that there had been progress on one key sticking point – security guarantees for Ukraine. News agency Reuters reported that he hoped any security guarantees would begin the moment Kyiv signed a peace deal.

“Without security guarantees, this war cannot be considered truly over. We cannot acknowledge that it has ended, because with such a neighbour there remains a risk of renewed aggression,” Zelensky explained, according to news agency AFP.

He added that he wanted the US to further “consider the possibility of 30, 40, 50 years”.

The US has not yet commented on the time frame. On Sunday, Trump said an agreement was close and that he expected European allies to “take over a big part” of that effort with support from the US.

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For President Zelensky, two core issues now remain unresolved within the plan – the question of territories and the future of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant which is in Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine.

Moscow currently controls about 75% of the Donetsk region, and some 99% of the neighbouring Luhansk. The two regions are known collectively as Donbas.

Speaking to reporters after their meeting, Trump said a deal on Donbas remained “unresolved, but it’s getting a lot closer”.

Its fate has been a major obstacle throughout negotiations, with Russia consistently unwilling to compromise on its aim to seize full control of Donbas.

On Monday, the Kremlin again said Ukraine should withdraw its troops from the part of the region that Kyiv still controls. Ukraine has insisted the area could become a free economic zone policed by its forces – but Zelensky has underlined that any talks on this should include the Ukrainian people, Reuters reported.

The US president has repeatedly changed his own position on Ukraine’s lost territories, and in September stunned observers by suggesting that Ukraine might be able to take it back. He later reversed course.

Trump has also floated the possibility of trilateral talks between the US, Russia, and Ukraine, saying it could happen “at the right time”.

While he is keen to add the Ukraine-Russia war to the list of conflicts he claims to have ended, Trump cautioned that stalled or scrapped talks that go “really badly” could mean that the war continues for even longer.

Zelensky suggested the Ukrainian officials could meet at the White House in January, potentially alongside European leaders, as the US and Ukrainian delegations finalise plans for further talks.

In a post-meeting call with European allies, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hailed “good progress” in the Florida talks while reinforcing the need for “ironclad security guarantees” for Ukraine.

French President Emmanuel Macron also said Kyiv’s allies would meet in Paris next month to discuss security guarantees.

Trump: Agreement on Donbas ‘unresolved’ but ‘getting closer’

Zelensky has said that a peace plan should be put to a referendum in Ukraine, insisting that a 60-day ceasefire would be necessary for such a vote to take place.

However, Russia does not back a temporary ceasefire – an issue which reportedly came up on a call between Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ahead of Sunday’s meeting.

Yuri Ushakov, Russia’s former US ambassador, said Trump listened to the Kremlin’s assessment of the proposals and the two presidents left the call united in their belief that a temporary ceasefire proposed by the EU and Ukraine would instead prolong the conflict.

Trump – who initiated the call – acknowledged that Moscow had little interest in a ceasefire that would allow Ukraine to hold a referendum.

“I understand that position,” he added.

Little further detail was offered, although Trump said he believed the Russian leader “wants Ukraine to succeed”.

Meanwhile, strikes continued overnight in Ukraine.

Kyiv said 25 airstrikes were carried out by Russia on Sunday, 21 of which were shot down.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said 89 UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) from Ukraine were intercepted by its forces on Sunday night – the vast majority of which were over the Bryansk region.

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What are the two leaders going to discuss regarding Gaza?

The US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is expected to be one of the main topics discussed between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The second phase of the ceasefire, that has been in force since October, involves the Israeli army withdrawing its positions in the Gaza Strip, while Hamasis supposed to lay down its weapons, with the Islamist militant group seeing its disarmment as a major sticking point.

According to Israeli government spokeswoman Shosh Bedrosian, Netanyahu is to discuss the agreement in a view of making sure that “Hamas is disarmed” and “Gaza is demilitarized.”

Both Israel and Hamas have alleged frequent ceasefire violations from the other side.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet US President Donald Trump in Florida. 

The two leaders are expected to discuss the second phase of the ceasefire in Gaza, as well as the current situation in Lebanon, where the Israeli army has regularly been carrying out strikes against what it said were violations of the ceasefire by Islamist militia Hezbollah.

Iranis also expected to be discussed as tensions between the Islamic republic and Israel remain high.

The meeting is expected to start at 13:00 local time (19:00 CET).

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Two people have died in Spain after torrential rainfall and flooding buffeted swathes of the country over the weekend.

The body of a man whose van was swept away by an overflowing riverbed in Malaga was recovered on Sunday, as a desperate search continued for a missing passenger.

Authorities also confirmed the death of a young person in Granada who was swept away trying to cross a riverbed on a motorbike.

In Barcelona, a woman was hospitalised on Saturday after being hit by a lamppost torn down by 70km-per-hour winds.

Dozens of people in the Barcelona province were also forced to evacuate from a building damaged by heavy rainfall in recent days.

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Authorities clean up floods in Estacion de Cartama, Malaga, on Sunday (EPA)

Extreme weather warnings were tentatively lifted in Malaga on Monday after storms rocked the southern coast over the weekend.

The man found dead in Alhaurín el Grande on Sunday was some 3km from where they believe he ran into trouble. He has not been named by authorities.

Authorities believe the pair, aged 53 and 54, were trying to cross the Fahala River on foot when they were swept away. The van was found overturned in the river with significant damage, but nobody was inside.

Some 150 people were drawn in to help with the search.

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Some areas saw as much as 250l of water per square metre (EPA)

The victim in Granada was identified only as a young person from Zujaira.

He was trying to cross the Cañada stream on a motorbike with a friend when he was swept away, authorities said. The friend made it to safety.

Valencia, which saw more than 220 people killed in floods last year, meanwhile issued red alert warnings and urged people to stay indoors and on high ground over the weekend.

Some areas saw as much as 250l of water per square metre. A yellow weather warning remained in place on Monday.

There were eight provinces on orange alert late on Sunday, with residents warned of serious risks to themselves or property.

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In Catalonia, emergency lines had been swamped with nearly 900 phone calls for related incidents by Saturday evening. The poor weather had dissipated by Monday morning.

A group of 16 people staying at a holiday camp in Girona province, to the north, had to be rescued by firefighters, as the Fluvià river swelled and left them stranded.

A dozen people trapped in a house in nearby Sant Feliu de Pallerols were also evacuated as a stream overflowed.

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• A 5-year-old boy has died after getting his arm caught in a moving walkway at a ski resort in Hokkaido, Japan
• The incident occurred in the morning of Sunday, Dec. 28, while the boy was riding with his mom
• Hokkaido Police are investigating the incident, according to local media outlet The Asahi Shimbun

A 5-year-old boy has died in a skiing accident in Japan.

On Sunday, Dec. 28, a customer was fatally injured after getting caught in an outdoor escalator while visiting the Asari Ski Resort in Otaru, Hokkaido, the resort said in a statement. The victim was identified as 5-year-old Hinata Goto, according to the Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun.

“A serious accident occurred on the escalator connecting the parking lot and center house at around 10:12 a.m. on Dec. 28, in which a customer was caught in the escalator and died,” the resort said.

Hinata had been riding on the belt-conveyor escalator with his mother and had tried to get off the 30-meter walkway when he fell on an outdoor escalator and got his arm caught in the winding mechanism at the top, The Guardian and The Asahi Shimbun reported.

At around 10 a.m. local time on Sunday, Hinata’s mother called emergency services “about her son being caught in the escalator.” Hinata was freed from the escalator around 40 minutes later but fell unconscious, per the outlets. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

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The Asahi Shimbun reported that no staff members were allegedly in the area where the boy got caught in the escalator. General manager of the slope, Kensuke Tamagawa, told the outlet that staffers were instructed not to go near the escalator for safety reasons.

A maintenance cover is installed at the escalator’s endpoint, which is designed to stop should an object get caught, as a safety mechanism. This, however, was not activated when Hinata was caught, officials told The Asahi Shimbun.

According to the outlet, Hinata’s mother had to push the emergency stop button installed at the end of the escalator instead for it to come to a stop.

The Hokkaido Police are investigating the incident, per The Asahi Shimbun.

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The Asari Ski Resort continued in its statement, “We would like to express our deepest condolences to the family of the deceased customer and offer our heartfelt condolences to the family. We would also like to offer our deepest apologies for the occurrence of such a serious accident at a facility operated by our company.”

The company said that it is fully cooperating with the police investigation following the incident.

“[We] are inspecting the relevant facilities and carrying out confirmation work to prevent a recurrence. Going forward, we will make responding to the bereaved families our top priority and work with all our heart and soul,” the resort added. 

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Published: 12:30 GMT, 29 December 2025 | Updated: 12:42 GMT, 29 December 2025

Anthony Joshua has reportedly been injured in a car crash in Nigeria that left two other people dead. 

Joshua, 36, was in the vehicle when it smashed into a stationary truck on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Makun, according to local media. 

Footage posted online appears to show the former heavyweight world champion boxer topless and looking dazed as he sits in the wrecked Lexus Jeep among shattered glass.  

He is later seen sitting in the front seat of an emergency vehicle, speaking to officials. It is reported that Joshua sustained minor injuries, and two other people were pronounced dead at the scene. 

The Daily Mail has contacted Joshua’s representatives for comment. 

Joshua had posted a story on his Instagram account four hours ago where he is seen topless in a video playing table tennis with another male.

He accompanied the clip with the message: ‘@healthy_mindset dishing out table tennis smoke.’  

Footage posted online appears to show former heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua, 36, topless and looking dazed as he sits in the wrecked Lexus Jeep among shattered glass

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A Scottish couple threw all social norms out the window and raised a grizzly bear as their son for over 20 years. Hercules, lovingly dubbed “Herc” became a global legend after vanishing for 24 days in 1980

12:32, 29 Dec 2025Updated 12:38, 29 Dec 2025

A British couple rejected the traditional path to parenthood by raising a 70 stone bear as their ‘son’

Wrestler Andy Robin and his wife Maggie fell in love with Hercules when he was born into captivity at the Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie. Learning he faced being put down due to a lack of space at the sanctuary, the couple stepped in and paid £50 to adopt the grizzly back in 1974. Back at their home in Sheriffmuir near Dunblane, the little bear grew quickly, weighing 30 stone after just one year. Instead of living and eating in a caged enclosure, he roamed freely throughout the house and ate dinner at the table, with spaghetti carbonara being one of his favourites.

And despite frantic phone calls from worried experts across the globe warning that ‘Herc’ would kill the couple, Andy, Maggie and the bear lived as one happy family, even enjoying pints down the pub together. “He was a happy drunk,” Maggie told the MailOnline in 2015. “And he was always very careful when he was indoors.” She added: “It was a much more innocent time. You could do tons of stuff with a bear and nobody really bothered you.”

READ MORE: ‘Cosy’ slippers and ‘beautiful’ pyjamas that ‘help with night sweats’ are 20% offREAD MORE: Audible slashed to 99p a month offering another way to get Stranger Things fixAndy Robin wrestler and wife Maggie Robin July 1985 with Hercules the bear (Image: Daily Record)

And the couple were so smitten that they sacrificed having children of their own to raise their furry friend. Maggie said of his adoption: “From that moment on our lives, and his, changed forever. We had never imagined that the little bundle of fluff we had adopted would bring us such joy and laughter, and indeed to so many others who saw him or heard of his adventures through his colourful life.”

In a recent interview with The Times, Anne Logan, 71, a vet who treated Hercules in his later years, said the connection between the trio was unlike anything else. She said: “I don’t think I can impress on people too much the bond they had. He adored Andy, and Maggie definitely was his mum. Andy was a bit more gung-ho with him, whereas Maggie could read Hercules.” She said that Maggie would feed Herc ‘prawns and Heinz beans’ when she was giving him shots and that she could sense when he wasn’t in the ‘best of moods’ to get an injection.

Hercules, being a bear, didn’t stop his parents from having dreams of what his life would or should look like. Andy set about turning their bear-child into a star, travelling the country as a wrestling double act and paying £10,000 to commission a publicity-raising documentary. Hercules soon became the face of Kleenex. What turned Hercules into a star was his dash and disappear act during whilst shooting an advert in the Outer Hebrides in August 1980.

The couple didn’t have children so they could devote themselves to Herc(Image: Daily Record)

Andy was horrified when Hercules swam across a lake and ran off during a take, but arguably it was this act that gave Herc his international fame. Rescue teams looked for three days before calling the search off, but a distraught Andy soldiered on alone.

After three long weeks Hercules was spotted swimming and brought back to Andy and Maggie, who found his weight had plummeted by 15 stone. Used to eating cooked food and with a dislike of raw flesh, the friendly beast had neglected to feed on the ample stocks of fish and cattle.

Kleenex used the saga as leverage for their ‘Big Softie’ campaign but the attention on Herc meant Hollywood came calling, and was cast in the 1983 13th James Bond movie Octopussy alongside Roger Moore and then came a Channel 5 documentary titled Hercules the Human Bear. But all good things come to an end, and Hercules’ career was brought to an abrupt end when he suffered a slipped disc while filming BBC documentary Eyewitness Bear in 1997.

Andy, however, refused to give up on his beloved best friend. They moved back from Los Angeles and used their savings to build a giant swimming pool to rehabilitate him. For six long months, Andy would spend hours a day walking Herc up and down the pool, desperately trying to get his legs working once more.

His efforts paid off, but the following winter, Hercules lost the use of both his legs and slipped away peacefully just before hibernation, aged 25, which is the normal life expectancy for bears. After Herc’s death, the couple were devastated, Maggie added: “Our lives dulled a little from that day onwards, and we miss him still. We were greatly blessed to have known him, and Hercules can never be replaced, but he can be remembered and honoured in this way.”

Andy, who died six years ago at the age of 84, first dreamt of adopting a bear when he volunteered to wrestle a black bear known as Terrible Ted for $1,000 while he was performing at the Wonderful World of Sport show in Ontario, Canada.

In August this year, theatre company Tenterhooks developed an exciting play of Scotland’s most famous bear, which ran from September to October. Ben Winger and Diane Thornton play Andy and Maggie, with Suzie Ferguson as Hercules. In an interview with The Courier, Maggie said: “…Herc has been away for 25 years, and then Andy… But the play feels like part of the fairytale continues.” Left by herself now with both husband and son gone, Maggie runs a boutique in Auchterarder, Scotland, called Bear Necessities, but the story of her son, a bear her and her husband adopted, continues to live on in different ways.

Hercules the Bear: A Love Story airs on BBC2 at 6pm on Tuesday 30 (tomorrow) and is on iPlayer now.

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