What the San Jose Sharks did Monday, sending two second-round picks and an AHL defenseman to Vancouver for winger Kiefer Sherwood, is not strictly advisable. In the cold, unfeeling spreadsheet of NHL ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has told the BBC he regrets welcoming British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El Fattah to the UK, following the emergence of old social media posts which included calls to ...

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has launched a review into what she calls "serious information failures" in the case of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El Fattah. In a letter to the Foreign Affairs ...

How much effort should a country expend to rescue someone who appears to hate its values? That is the question posed by the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Last week, those efforts finally paid off. Egypt ...

The British-Egyptian activist at the centre of a political row appears to have endorsed new and baseless claims that he is the victim of a "smear campaign". Alaa Abd El Fattah flew to the UK on Friday ...

British-Egyptian activist has apologised over tweets appearing to condone violence against Zionists and police The human rights campaigner Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s past social media posts have led to a ...

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08:01, Mon, Dec 29, 2025 Updated: 08:58, Mon, Dec 29, 2025 Egyptian dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah has claimed his abhorrent social media posts were "twisted out of their meaning" as calls intensify for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alaa Abd El-Fattah pictured in Cairo in September after his release from prison. (Getty Images) (picture alliance via Getty Images ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing demands for a British-Egyptian human rights activist to be deported and his UK citizenship to be revoked after social media posts emerged in which he called for ...