Donald Trump has demanded that the Panama Canal be given back to the US if Panama did not manage the waterway in a fashion that was acceptable to him – and he accused the central American country of charging excessive rates for use of the ocean-connecting ship passage.

“The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous, especially knowing the extraordinary generosity that has been bestowed to Panama by the US,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform late Saturday, a little more than a month before the start of his second US presidency. “This complete ‘rip-off’ of our Country will immediately stop….”

In the evening post, Trump also warned he would not let the canal fall into the “wrong hands”. And he seemed to warn of potential Chinese influence on the passage, writing the canal should not be managed by China.

Trump said the Panama Canal was a “vital national asset” for the US, calling it “crucial” for commerce and national security.

Panama’s president José Raúl Mulino later rebuffed Trump’s threat, saying that the canal’s transit fees aren’t inflated and its sovereignty isn’t re-negotiable.

“Every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zones is part of Panama, and it will continue to be,” Mulino said on Sunday in a video statement on Twitter/X.

Trump’s warning comes days after the president-elect mused in an early-morning thought blast that Canadians might want Canada to become America’s 51st state, taunting prime minister Justin Trudeau as “Governor Trudeau”.

Trump’s Panama thinking underscores an expected shift in US diplomacy after he takes office in January, particularly in regard to China and European security. On Friday, the Financial Times reported that Trump’s team had told European officials that he will demand Nato member states increase defence spending to 5% of their GDP.

Trump’s rhetorical threat to Panama, however, comes 25 years after the US handed full control of the canal to Panama following a period of joint administration.

In 1977, president Jimmy Carter negotiated the Torrijos-Carter Treaties that gave Panama control of the canal and the Neutrality Treaty, which allowed the US to defend the canal’s neutrality. The canal is currently administered by the Panama Canal Authority.

The US completed the 51-mile canal through the Central American isthmus in 1914 and is still the canal’s biggest customer, responsible for about three quarters of the cargo transiting through each year.

China is the canal’s second-biggest customer, and a Chinese company based in Hong Kong controls two of the five ports adjacent to the canal, one on each side.

But a prolonged drought has hampered the canal’s ability to move ships between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. National economic council director Lael Brainard said last week that shipping disruptions contributed to the supply-chain pressures.

The Panama Canal has experienced a 29% decrease in ship transits over the past fiscal year due to severe drought conditions, according to the canal authority. From October 2023 to September 2024, only 9,944 vessels passed through the canal, compared to 14,080 the previous year.

In his post, Trump suggested that the canal was in danger of falling into the wrong hands, saying the canal isn’t China’s to manage.

“It was not given for the benefit of others, but merely as a token of cooperation with us and Panama,” Trump said.

“If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to us, in full, and without question. To the Officials of Panama, please be guided accordingly!”

An official for Panama’s government told Bloomberg late Saturday that he was aware of Trump’s statement and there would be a formal response in the coming days.

Last month, the Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, unveiled plans for a 276.5 mile (445-km) interoceanic waterway that would provide an alternative to neighboring Panama’s waterway.

In a proposal to Chinese investors at a regional business summit, Ortega said “every day it becomes more complicated to pass through Panama” and said Nicaragua’s canal project could attract Chinese and American investment, noting that the US had considered building a Nicaraguan canal as far back as 1854.

Reuters contributed reporting

Donald Trump used a Sunday morning speech at a rightwing convention in Phoenix, Arizona, as a victory lap, doubling down on the idea that his clear though relatively narrow victory was in fact a landslide – and impressing upon his base the idea that he enjoys an overwhelming mandate.

“Our movement not only won a mandate,” said Trump, who won the popular vote in November’s election by about half a percentage point while clinching the electoral college 312-226. “We’ve built majorities all over the place that will define our country’s future.”

He was addressing a crowd of supporters that had gathered for AmericaFest, an annual convention hosted by the organization Turning Point USA, the political group that mobilized ahead of the 2024 election to turn out swing state voters for Trump and win him control of both congressional chambers at the start of his second presidency in January.

In the last five years, Turning Point has become a rightwing juggernaut in the conservative movement and a home for activists who reject the old guard of the Republican party as it was before Trump’s rise. Since 2018 the group has grown by more than 650%, bringing in more than $81m in revenue last year. During the group’s weekend event, which fell just days before Christmas, Turning Point drew out about 20,000 attendees – a little under half the turnout of the Republican national convention in Milwaukee this year.

Trump’s keynote speech at the event underscored the group’s dramatic ascendance.

“Turning Point has been amazing,” said Trump, who called out the group’s director, Charlie Kirk, by name. “He’s a really amazing guy.”

During his speech, Trump basked in his win and doubled down on his anti-immigration campaign promises. He even dwelled a little on the 2020 election, which Joe Biden narrowly won and Trump falsely claimed had been stolen from him. This year, Trump claimed he won in “a landslide” though his win was tight but decisive as well.

He lauded historically Democratic-leaning demographic groups that turned out in lower numbers during the 2024 presidential election, claiming young people and Latinos as a new bloc in his base.

The effect of his remarks, however exaggerated, was to impress upon his base the idea that the election conferred an unprecedented mandate to roll out his campaign promises, no matter how controversial. He even brought his former foe, Ted Cruz – the Canadian-born US senator from Texas – onstage to speak about Trump’s mandate.

“That was an amazing moment,” a laughing Trump said after Cruz exited the stage, with personal attacks that the president-elect once directed at Cruz’s wife, Heidi, during Trump’s successful 2016 White House campaign now a distant memory for the Texan.

Trump also emphasized the role of big businesses in backing him – or at least capitulating to him. “Great business leaders called – a lot of them – and some of them weren’t exactly on my side,” Trump said.

“But they’re on my side now.” (Trump reportedly dined recently with the billionaire owner of Amazon and the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, at Mar-a-Lago.)

Trump previewed a harsh turn on transgender rights: “We are going to end the transgender lunacy,” Trump said. “We will keep men out of women’s sports,” he added.

During his speech, Trump also spoke at length about the Panama Canal, doubling down on his threat Saturday to reclaim the trade passage if Panama does not manage the route in accordance with his preferences. “We will demand that the Panama Canal be now returned to the United States,” said Trump, to raucous applause.

Trump also campaigned for his top cabinet picks, including defense department nominee, Pete Hegseth; his intelligence pick, Tulsi Gabbard; health department nominee Robert F Kennedy Jr; and the ultraconservative Trump loyalist Kash Patel, who he has floated as a replacement for Chris Wray as head of the FBI. All have been mired in assorted controversies.

Then he turned to immigration.

“My administration will live by the motto ‘promises made, promises kept,’” said Trump, who during his first presidency failed to deliver on some of his most memorable 2016 campaign pledges, including building a wall on the US-Mexico border paid for by the Mexican government.

Walking through his campaign promise to launch mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, Trump said: “We will begin the largest deportation operation in American history, larger even than that of president Dwight D Eisenhower.”

The Eisenhower reference alluded to cold war-era mass deportations conducted by that president’s administration. Carrying the racist name “operation wetback,” that program resulted in the mass expulsion of nearly 2 million Mexican-Americans without due process in an event that has been widely characterized as a form of ethnic cleansing.

Tom Homan, who Trump has appointed to strategize his promised mass deportation, warmed up for the president-elect, mocking critics of his anti-immigrant rhetoric. “‘Tom Homan’s a racist, Tom Homan’s an asshole,’” Homan said. “Say whatever you want, I don’t give a shit.”

He promised the president-elect would be a “badass” and warned the liberal mayors of certain US cities that have promised to resist the mass deportation plan. “If you’re not gonna do it, president Trump and Ice will,” Homan said, invoking the abbreviation for immigration and customs enforcement. “Guess where Tom Homan is going to be on day one? Chicago, Illinois.”

Inauguration day, Trump declared, would be dedicated to implementing his hardline immigration policy: “January 20 will truly be Liberation Day in America.”

US president-elect Donald Trump has said he will rename Denali, Alaska natives’ name for North America’s tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th US president who was assassinated in 1901.

Democratic former President Barack Obama in 2015 officially renamed the mountain as Denali, siding with the state of Alaska and ending a decades-long naming battle. The peak had been officially called Mount McKinley since 1917.

“They took his name off Mount McKinley,” Trump said in a speech to supporters in Phoenix on Sunday. “He was a great president,” Trump, a Republican, said, adding that his administration will “bring back the name of Mount McKinley because I think he deserves it.”

The mountain, which has an elevation of more than 20,000 feet (6,100m), was named Mount McKinley in 1896 after a gold prospector exploring the region heard that McKinley, a champion of the gold standard, had won the Republican nomination for president.

The US department of the interior, in the 2015 order that was signed by Obama changing the name to Denali, noted that McKinley had never visited the mountain and had no “significant historical connection to the mountain or to Alaska.”

Denali, the local Athabascan name, meaning “the High One,” was officially designated as the peak’s name in 1975 by the state of Alaska, which then pressed the federal government to also adopt the name.

Alaskan senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, pushed back on Trump’s pledge to rename the mountain.

“There is only one name worthy of North America’s tallest mountain: Denali – the Great One,” Murkowski wrote in a post on X.

McKinley, who served two terms as governor of Ohio before becoming president in 1897, led the country to victory in the Spanish-American War and raised protective tariffs to promote U.S. industry, according to the White House website on presidents.

Donald Trump announced a series of appointments to his incoming administration on Sunday evening, including top positions in the Department of Defense and one of the first members of “Elon Musk’s department of government efficiency”.

The president-elect said he would nominate billionaire investor Stephen Feinberg to serve as deputy secretary of defense, the No 2 role at the Pentagon.

Feinberg is the co-chief executive of Cerberus Capital Management LP, a private equity firm that has invested in defense contractors. He served on an intelligence advisory board during Trump’s 2017-2021 White House term.

Elbridge Colby was picked to serve as undersecretary of defense for policy, the number three position at the Pentagon. Colby, known as a China hawk, served as a senior Pentagon official during Trump’s first term.

Trump also announced he chose Katie Miller, the wife of Stephen Miller, to join the advisory board to be led by Musk and fellow billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy to slash government funding and regulations.

“Katie Miller will soon be joining DOGE! She has been a loyal supporter of mine for many years, and will bring her professional experience to Government Efficiency,” Trump posted in a message on his social media platform Truth Social.

Katie Miller had served in the first Trump administration as deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security and as press secretary for the former vice-president, Mike Pence. She is currently a spokesperson for the transition team for Trump’s designated health and human services secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr.

Katie Miller’s married to Trump’s long time aide, Stephen Miller, who will serve as deputy chief of staff and designated homeland security adviser in Trump’s new White House.

Musk and Ramaswamy recently revealed plans to wipe out scores of federal regulations crafted by what they say is an anti-democratic, unaccountable bureaucracy, but have yet to announce members of the Doge team. Musk has said he wants to slash the number of federal agencies from more than 400 to 99.

Trump also said he would nominate Mauricio Claver-Carone to serve as his special envoy to Latin America.

Claver-Carone served in Trump’s first administration and was fired in 2022 as head of the Inter-American Development Bank after an investigation found he had an intimate relationship with a staffer. Investigators also found that Claver-Carone created a hostile environment at the bank. He denied having an affair.

Trump said Claver-Carone was the right man for the job, and would help address migration and drug-smuggling issues. “Mauricio knows the region, and how to put America’s interests FIRST,” Trump said on social media.

The German government has vowed to investigate whether a Christmas market car attack that killed five people and injured 200 could have been prevented, after it emerged that authorities had received multiple warnings about the suspect.

Amid mounting criticism of Germany’s security apparatus, the interior minister, Nancy Faeser, said on Sunday that the heads of the domestic and foreign intelligence services would be questioned by two parliamentary committees next week.

The man arrested at the scene of Friday’s attack in Magdeburg, a Saudi-born psychiatrist named by German media as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, 50, had made online threats to kill German citizens and has a history of disputes with state authorities.

A self-described “Saudi atheist” who helped women flee Gulf countries, he had been strongly critical of Berlin for allowing in too many Muslim refugees and had repeatedly backed far-right conspiracy theories about the “Islamisation” of Europe.

Abdulmohsen voiced support on the social media platform X for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party and for X’s owner, the US billionaire Elon Musk, who has publicly backed AfD, saying only the anti-immigration party “can save Germany”.

The victims were identified as four women aged 52, 45, 75 and 67 and a nine-year-old boy who was named by his mother on Sunday as André Gleißner.

“Let my little teddy bear fly around the world again,” Désirée Gleißner said on Facebook. “André didn’t do anything to anybody. He was only with us on earth for nine years. Why you? Just why? You will always live on in our hearts … I promise you that.”

Faeser said on Sunday the task was to “paint a picture” of a suspect “who does not fit any existing mould”. He had acted in “an unbelievably cruel and brutal manner, like an Islamist terrorist, though he was clearly ideologically hostile to Islam”, she said.

She promised Bild newspaper that “no stone will be left unturned”, adding that authorities would “clarify all this background. They will also examine in detail what information was available in the past, and how it was followed up.”

The head of the federal criminal police, Holger Münch, told the public broadcaster ZDF that his office received a tipoff from Saudi Arabia in November 2023 that led authorities to launch “appropriate investigative measures”.

Abdulmohsen had “published a huge number of posts on the internet”, Münch said, and also “had contact with various authorities, making insults and even threats. However, he was not known to have committed acts of violence.”

Germany’s federal office for migration and refugees said it received a tipoff about the suspect last summer. “This was taken seriously, like every other of the numerous tips,” it said, adding that it had passed the tip on to relevant authorities.

Der Spiegel magazine said the Saudi secret service alerted Germany’s spy agency BND last year to a post in which Abdulmohsen threatened Germany would “pay a price” for its treatment of Saudi refugees.

Police said on Sunday that Abdulmohsen, who arrived in Germany in 2006 and had permanent residency, was remanded in custody late on Saturday evening after prosecutors pressed charges of murder, attempted murder and grievous bodily harm.

The three-minute attack, in which a dark-coloured, rented BMW SUV ploughed at speed through the crowded market shortly after 7pm on Friday, injured 205 people, 41 of whom were still in a serious or critical condition on Sunday.

As thousands mourned the victims in Magdeburg on Saturday night, scuffles broke out at a far-right rally in the city, billed as a “demonstration against terror” and attended by more than 2,000 people, local media reported.

Protesters in black balaclavas chanted “migration kills” and held up a large banner bearing the word “remigration”, a term popular with anti-immigration extremists seeking the mass deportation of migrants and people deemed not ethnically German.

A sea of flowers stretched out in front of St John’s church in Magdeburg, close to the scene of the crime, which attracted a steady stream of tearful mourners throughout the weekend, many of whom returned more than once, local media reported.

Abdulmohsen has described himself as a former Muslim and was an active user of X, sharing dozens of posts daily focusing mainly on anti-Islam themes, criticising the religion and congratulating former Muslims who had abandoned it.

As recently as August, he wrote on social media: “Is there a path to justice in Germany without blowing up a German embassy or randomly slaughtering German citizens? … If anyone knows it, please let me know.” He also posted on X that he wished Germany’s former chancellor Angela Merkel could be jailed for life or executed.

As early as 2013, he was fined by a court in the city of Rostock for “disturbing the public peace by threatening to commit crimes”. This year he was investigated in Berlin for the “misuse of emergency calls” after arguing heatedly with officers at a police station, local media reported. He had been on sick leave from his workplace, an addiction clinic near Magdeburg, since October.

Mina Ahadi, the chair of an association of former Muslims in Germany, said Abdulmohsen was “no stranger to us, because he has been terrorising us for years”. She labelled him “a psychopath who adheres to ultra-right conspiracy ideologies”.

The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on Saturday condemned the “terrible, insane” attack and called for national unity amid mounting political tension in the country as it heads towards federal elections on 23 February.

Opposition parties were swift to criticise his government. The anti-immigration AfD’s parliamentary leader, Bernd Baumann, demanded Scholz call a special session of the Bundestag on the “desperate” security situation.

AfD has strong support in the former East Germany, where Magdeburg is located, and is in second place nationally in the polls. Leading members, including its candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel, planned a rally in Magdeburg on Monday evening.

Andrea Lindholz, of the centre-right Christian Social Union, which as the CDU/CSU alliance is leading in the polls, said the attack “raises questions about authorities’ knowledge of warnings from home and abroad. These questions must be answered.”

The head of the far-left BSW party, Sahra Wagenknecht, said: “The background must be clarified. But above all, we must do more to prevent such offences, especially as there were obviously specific warnings and tips in this case that were ignored.”

A crack in a Colorado ski lift forced the evacuation of more than 170 stranded skiers and snowboarders on Saturday, with people riding the gondolas lowered down by ropes over the course of hours.

Officials are still investigating what cause the gondola lift at Winter Park Resort, about 70 miles (113km) west of Denver, to crack. The lift automatically stopped when it detected the crack in a structural piece of the lift just after noon on Saturday, resort spokesperson Jen Miller said.

“Ski patrol has trained extensively for this,” Miller said, according to the Colorado Sun Times. “It’s a very rare thing to have to evacuate a lift at all.

No injuries were reported during the rescues, which came at the start of the busy holiday ski season.

Ski patrolers entered the cabin of each gondola from above and lowered people’s equipment to the ground before using a rope equipped with a seat to lower each of the 174 passengers to the ground, Miller said.

Workers were replacing the section of the lift that cracked on Sunday as state regulators and the lift’s manufacturer worked with resort officials to investigate what caused the crack, Miller said. The resort still had 21 other lifts open.

A video purporting to show the Russian capture of an Australian man fighting for Ukraine on the war’s eastern front has prompted urgent inquiries by Australia’s federal government.

The man, who identified himself as Oscar Jenkins, is struck several times and questioned roughly in Russian in the video, which was circulating on the messaging service Telegram. Nine newspapers, which broke news of the video, reported that the footage had first been shared by the Russian journalist Alexander Sladkov.

The office of the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, was contacted for comment. Guardian Australia understands that federal officials are working to verify the authenticity of the video and details about the man involved.

Anthony Albanese noted that Russian forces sometimes seeded incorrect information. “This is concerning news, and we’re working through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide support, including, for this gentleman, trying to ascertain the details and the facts which are there,” theprime minister told reporters on Monday morning.

“We know that the Russians often put out information that isn’t right. So our embassy in Moscow is working. But in addition to that, Foreign Affairs and Trade are working here as well.”

In the video, Jenkins has his hands bound with what appears to be tape or plastic. He is wearing military fatigues and has dirt on his face. Answering in English and broken Russian, he says he is 32 years old and lives in Australia and Ukraine.

“I’m Australian,” Jenkins says in English. “Oscar Jenkins. 32 years old … I study biology.”

A man behind the camera appears to strike Jenkins twice in the head with a stick as he is questioned in Russian.

Albanese said the government would “make appropriate representations” to Russian authorities.

“We always look after Australians,” he said. “That’s the job of an Australian Government, is to make representations for Australian citizens.”

Social media profiles under the name Oscar Jenkins appear to show the same man running a cross-country race in Hong Kong in 2017, wearing a singlet with the slogan “go vegan”, as well as a YouTube video from 2023 titled “I WILL FORCE CHINESE PEOPLE TO BE VEGAN”. In that video, the man speaks about wanting to talk to people about veganism.

A LinkedIn page under the name Oscar Jenkins shows a profile picture of a text graphic saying “Vegan Ukraine” superimposed over a map of the country, and the words “righteous soldier” and “destroy evil be good”.

That page, which does not carry a photo of the user’s face, describes Jenkins as a “Marketing Consultant and university lecturer” with an employment history including as a lecturer at the Tianjin Modern Vocational Technology College in China, a foreign language teacher at another Chinese school and several positions in Melbourne – including working at a Toorak club and as a junior cricket coach.

In a version of the interrogation video posted to Sladkov’s Telegram page, a caption written in Russian and translated to English states “our biologist was caught from Australia”.

“What is this guy doing? Who is this guy?” the caption reads.

“I hope everything will be fine with the guy, trial, hard labor, everything as it should be. I understand the Ukrainian prisoners. But what is this guy doing here?”

In a statement, the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations said it was concerned about the man’s welfare.

“It is horrific that a young man who has chosen to help Ukraine resist an illegal and lawless invasion is now in the hands of Russian occupying troops. As Australians, we must do everything in our power to ensure Oscar is released,” the federation said.

“He’s one of our own and we must help him and his family at this time. The AFUO will support all efforts by the Australian government to assist this young man as a matter of urgency.”

• Russian president, Vladimir Putin met the Slovakian prime minister, Robert Fico, in the Kremlin on Sunday, a rare visit by a European Union leader to Moscow, as a contract allowing for Russian gas to transit through Ukraine nears expiry. Slovakia is dependent on that gas passing through its neighbour Ukraine, and it has ramped up efforts to maintain those flows from 2025, while criticising Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for refusing to extend the contract expiring at the end of the year. Russian natural gas still flows to some European countries, including Slovakia, through Ukraine under a five-year agreement signed before the war. “Russian President V Putin confirmed the readiness of the (Russian Federation) to continue to supply gas to the west and Slovakia, which is practically impossible after 1 January, 2025, in view of the stance of the Ukrainian president,” Fico said. Slovakia last month signed a short-term pilot contract to buy natural gas from Azerbaijan, and earlier this year, it struck a deal to import US liquefied natural gas through a pipeline from Poland. The country can also receive gas through Austrian, Hungarian and Czech networks, enabling imports from Germany among other potential suppliers.

• Russia has captured two more villages in east Ukraine, the latest territorial gains for Moscow’s advancing army. The defence ministry said on Telegram on Sunday that its troops had “liberated” the villages of Lozova in the north-eastern Kharkiv region and Krasnoye – called Sontsivka in Ukraine. The latter is close to the resource hub of Kurakhove, which Russia has almost encircled and would be a key prize for Moscow’s attempt to capture the entire Donetsk region. Russia has accelerated its advance across eastern Ukraine in recent months, looking to secure as much territory as possible before the US president-elect, Donald Trump, assumes office in January. Moscow’s army claims to have seized more than 190 Ukrainian settlements this year, with Kyiv struggling to hold the line in the face of manpower and ammunition shortages.

• Zelenskyy told Ukraine’s diplomats on Sunday that the country will have to fight to persuade allies to allow it to take up Nato membership, but has described the goal as “achievable” as it searches for security guarantees to protect it from Russia. Kyiv says membership in the transatlantic military alliance, or an equivalent form of security guarantee, would be crucial to any peace plan to ensure Russia does not attack again. Nato has said Ukraine will join it one day, but has not suggested when or issued an invitation.

• Russian forces executed five Ukrainian prisoners of war, Ukraine’s parliamentary commissioner for human rights, Dmytro Lubinets, claimed on Sunday. Russian troops shot the five unarmed soldiers after capturing them, Lubinets alleged on Telegram, without providing more details. “Russian war criminals who shoot Ukrainian prisoners of war should be brought before an international tribunal and punished with the most severe punishment provided for by law,” Lubinets said. Russia did not immediately comment on the incident, but has previously denied committing war crimes.

• A video purporting to show the Russian capture of an Australian man fighting for Ukraine on the war’s eastern front has prompted urgent inquiries by Australia’s government. The man, who identified himself as Oscar Jenkins, is struck several times and questioned roughly in Russian in the video, which is circulating on Telegram. Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese noted that Russian forces sometimes seeded incorrect information but said on Monday that the news was “concerning” and the government was working “to provide support, including, for this gentleman” as it ascertained the facts.

• Ukrainian drones struck a major Russian fuel depot for the second time in just over a week on Sunday, according to a senior Russian regional official, as part of a “massive” cross-border attack on fuel and energy facilities that Kyiv says supply Moscow’s military. The strikes came days after Russia launched sweeping attacks on Ukraine’s already battered energy grid, threatening to plunge thousands of homes into darkness as winter tightens its grip over the region, and as Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbour nears the three-year mark.

A small plane crashed into a Brazilian town popular with tourists on Sunday, killing all 10 passengers on board and injuring more than a dozen people on the ground, Brazil’s Civil Defense Agency said.

In a post on X, the agency said the plane hit the chimney of a home and then the second floor of a nearby building before crashing into a mobile phone shop in a largely residential neighbourhood of Gramado. More than a dozen people who were on the ground were taken to hospital with injuries including smoke inhalation. Two were said to be in critical condition.

It is not immediately clear what caused the crash. Local media reported that the plane was piloted by Luiz Claudio Galeazzi, a Brazilian businessman travelling with his family to São Paulo. In a statement published on LinkedIn, Galeazzi’s company, Galeazzi & Associados, confirmed that the 61-year-old was on the plane, adding that he was travelling with his wife, their three daughters, several other family members and another company employee, who all died in the crash.

“In this moment of intense pain we are deeply thankful [for] the manifestations of solidarity and love that we have received from friends, colleagues and the community,” the statement said. “We also express our solidarity with those who have been affected by this accident in the region.”

Security cameras filmed the small Piper plane departing from Canela airport in Rio Grande do Sul, minutes before it crashed in Gramado, about 6 miles (10km) from the airport.

Gramado is located in the Serra Gaúcha mountains and is popular with Brazilian tourists who enjoy the cool weather, hiking spots and traditional architecture. The town was settled by large numbers of German and Italian immigrants in the 19th century and is a popular destination for Christmas holidays.

A small plane crashed into a Brazilian town popular with tourists on Sunday, killing all 10 passengers on board and injuring more than a dozen people on the ground, Brazil’s Civil Defense Agency said.

In a post on X, the agency said the plane hit the chimney of a home and then the second floor of a nearby building before crashing into a mobile phone shop in a largely residential neighbourhood of Gramado. More than a dozen people who were on the ground were taken to hospital with injuries including smoke inhalation. Two were said to be in critical condition.

It is not immediately clear what caused the crash. Local media reported that the plane was piloted by Luiz Claudio Galeazzi, a Brazilian businessman travelling with his family to São Paulo. In a statement published on LinkedIn, Galeazzi’s company, Galeazzi & Associados, confirmed that the 61-year-old was on the plane, adding that he was travelling with his wife, their three daughters, several other family members and another company employee, who all died in the crash.

“In this moment of intense pain we are deeply thankful [for] the manifestations of solidarity and love that we have received from friends, colleagues and the community,” the statement said. “We also express our solidarity with those who have been affected by this accident in the region.”

Security cameras filmed the small Piper plane departing from Canela airport in Rio Grande do Sul, minutes before it crashed in Gramado, about 6 miles (10km) from the airport.

Gramado is located in the Serra Gaúcha mountains and is popular with Brazilian tourists who enjoy the cool weather, hiking spots and traditional architecture. The town was settled by large numbers of German and Italian immigrants in the 19th century and is a popular destination for Christmas holidays.

An Australian pilot will be surrendered to the United States as early as next week after the federal government approved the extradition of the former US Marine pilot to face charges over allegedly training Chinese fighter pilots.

Daniel Duggan, who has been in maximum security prison in Australia for more than two years fighting his extradition, will be handed over to American authorities in the early part of 2025. In a statement, his family said they were “devastated” at the decision after the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, on Monday confirmed he had approved Duggan’s extradition to the US.

“Acknowledging the public interest in this matter, I confirm that on 19 December 2024 I determined under section 22 of the Extradition Act 1988 (Cth) that Daniel Duggan should be extradited to the United States to face prosecution for the offences of which he is accused,” Dreyfus said in a statement.

“Mr Duggan was given the opportunity to provide representations as to why he should not be surrendered to the United States. In arriving at my decision, I took into consideration all material in front of me.”

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The US has sought the extradition of Duggan, 55, on charges of arms trafficking and money laundering arising from his alleged training of Chinese fighter pilots more than a decade ago. The allegations have not been tested in court.

A US indictment alleges he taught Chinese fighter pilots to land jets on aircraft carriers – known as “carrier-arrested landings” – in defiance of arms trafficking laws. The indictment details payments Duggan allegedly received in 2011 and 2012 for training Chinese fighter pilots at a test flight academy “based in South Africa, with a presence in the People’s Republic of China”.

The father of six – whose children are aged between six and 18 and are all Australian citizens – faces a potential 60-year prison term if convicted in the US.

“We are shocked and absolutely heartbroken by this callous and inhumane decision which has been delivered just before Christmas with no explanation or justification from the government,” Duggan’s wife, Saffrine, said in a statement.

The family said they received a short letter from the attorney general’s department on Friday confirming Dreyfus’ decision, which set out that Duggan would be escorted to the US sometime after 30 December and before 17 February.

Duggan’s family said they were considering their legal options, “including requesting specific reasons for the government’s decision”, which they claimed the letter did not address.

“We feel abandoned by the Australian government and deeply disappointed that they have completely failed in their duty to protect an Australian family,” Saffrine said.

“It is very difficult to explain to the children why this is happening to their father, especially now, at this time of year. We are all terrified that we may not see him for a very long time. My children are very, very sad.”

The family said Duggan maintained his innocence and denied the allegations made against him.

Dreyfus noted in his statement that Duggan was found in May by a New South Wales magistrate to be eligible for surrender to the US.

“To ensure the safety of all persons involved and to uphold the integrity of the surrender process, as a matter of longstanding practice, the Australian government does not comment on operational matters relating to extradition, including the timing of and specific arrangements for a person’s surrender,” the attorney general said.

The archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, has come under increased pressure after reports that he twice reappointed a priest at the heart of a sexual abuse case.

A BBC investigation found Cottrell renewed David Tudor’s contract as area dean in Essex on two occasions while Cottrell was bishop of Chelmsford.

Tudor had previously been barred from ministry for five years for having sex with a 16-year-old girl who was a pupil at a school where he was chaplain. He paid her compensation and was banned from being alone with children.

Cottrell admitted that things “could have been handled differently”.

The scandal is the second high-profile crisis to envelop the Church of England in recent months.

The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, announced his resignation in November in the wake of the Makin report, which found Welby could have brought the serial abuser John Smyth to justice if he had reported him to police in 2013.

Cottrell will take over as the church’s most senior clergyman when Welby steps down next month.

A spokesperson for Cottrell said: “Even though David Tudor was already area dean when Stephen Cottrell arrived in the diocese in 2010, as the then diocesan bishop of Chelmsford he accepts responsibility for David Tudor remaining as area dean.

“On reflection, he acknowledges this could have been handled differently, and regrets that it wasn’t, but his focus throughout his time as bishop of Chelmsford was, with the help of safeguarding professionals, to understand, assess and manage the risk of David Tudor.

“No one advised him that David Tudor should not continue as an area dean.”

Tudor was banned for life from ministry this year after admitting what the Church of England described as serious sexual abuse involving two girls aged 15 and 16.

He had previously been suspended from ministry for five years in 1988.

He had admitted, according to a tribunal document, to having sex with a 16-year-old girl he met when she was a pupil at a school where he was chaplain. He paid compensation to the victim.

However, he returned to working in the church in 1994.

A BBC investigation found Tudor was reappointed as a senior member of clergy in Essex in 2013 and 2018. Cottrell would have known that Tudor was banned from working one-on-one with children.

Cottrell said it was “not possible” to remove Tudor from office until fresh complaints were made against him in 2019.

In a statement before the new developments, he said he had faced a “horrible and intolerable” situation when he became bishop of Chelmsford, having been briefed on the situation in 2010.

The spokesperson added that “all the risks around David Tudor were regularly reviewed by safeguarding professionals and this was the main focus” and “when further action could be taken in 2019, it was”.

Two bishops have criticised Cottrell’s decisions. The bishop of Gloucester, the Right Rev Rachel Treweek, said she felt “shock and dismay” at the latest revelations.

She told BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend: “I think there are very important conversations and processes to go on that are not going to take place over public media.

“I want to live process well. I want to live relationship well. It’s where we have failed, so much, as the church, in keeping relationship at the heart of our processes and I want that to run through every aspect of the church.

“You asked me if it made a difference. I do think there are big questions to be looked at.

“I heard that news with shock and dismay but I want the proper process to take place in order that we shape ourselves as the right sort of church going forward, and that, for me, is the big question.”

The bishop of Newcastle, Helen-Ann Hartley, posted on X that the news meant Cottrell would not be a “credible voice as the leadership of the Church of England”.

News Corp and Telstra will sell Foxtel in a $3.4bn deal with global sports streaming giant DAZN, relinquishing control of its entire portfolio of domestic and international sports broadcast rights including cricket, AFL and NRL.

DAZN – owned by the second-richest man in Britain, Len Blavatnik – will take a majority stake in the Australian pay television business, including the Kayo and Binge streaming services and the Hubbl set-top box, subject to regulatory approval.

Foxtel’s 4.7m Australian customers should not expect any immediate changes in their subscriptions or pricing as a result of the deal, which is expected to be finalised in the first half of 2025, a spokesperson said.

DAZN, pronounced “Da-zone”, will take over Foxtel’s array of sports broadcast rights and gain a major foothold in Australia under the deal while delivering major benefits to a struggling Foxtel, according to Dan Barrett, writer for television industry newsletter Always Be Watching.

“In one swoop, DAZN’s been able to come in and just buy up all those big major Australian sports rights,” Barrett said.

DAZN is backed by Ukrainian-born billionaire Blavatnik, who also controls businesses including Warner Music, home to Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, and Megan Thee Stallion.

The company focused on European markets when it launched in 2016 but has pushed more into 200 international markets since 2020, most recently with its December purchase of exclusive streaming rights for the 2025 Fifa Club World Cup.

The chief executive of DAZN, Shay Segev, said the Foxtel acquisition would further the company’s ambition to become “the global home of sport”.

“Australians watch more sport than any other country in the world, which makes this deal an incredibly exciting opportunity for DAZN,” he said.

Foxtel has broadcast deals for AFL, cricket and rugby league and Segev said he hoped to export Australian sports worldwide, with DAZN reporting 300 million monthly customers around the world in 2023.

Foxtel had for decades been a highly lucrative revenue stream for News Corp but the media company had looked to offload the pay television service under competition from growing numbers of streaming services.

Australians have dropped subscriptions to the Foxtel Now streaming service, while flocking to Kayo and Binge, according to disclosures in its August earnings results.

DAZN already streams international sports including European football, boxing and NFL in Australia under a variety of subscription plans and a Foxtel spokesperson said the business was considering bringing DAZN content to its Australian customers in future.

The potential addition of new content would add to Foxtel’s sports offerings at time when its Binge platform is set to lose HBO shows with the launch of Max, the Warner Bros Discovery streaming competitor, in the first half of 2025.

“A giant international sports player coming along is almost a perfect save for Foxtel’s business,” Barrett said. “It’ll strengthen Foxtel as a sporting product and the future of Foxtel was always going to be sport.”

“In the next couple of years, we’re probably going to see Foxtel drop away a lot of the general entertainment and movies anyway, and just move in a direction of sports.”

The deal will see Foxtel repay outstanding debts of $578 million to News Corp and $128 million to Telstra. News Corp will take a seat on DAZN’s board and gain a 6% stake in the company, while Telstra will take a stake of about 3%.

Under the agreement, Foxtel will continue to be run by its local chief executive, Patrick Delany, who said he was grateful for News Corp’s support to reinvigorate the platform.

“Today’s announcement is a natural evolution for the Foxtel Group,” he said. “[DAZN] are experts in the sports media business and can play a significant role in supporting Foxtel as the business grows its streaming capabilities.”

New York City police took a man into custody who they believe is connected to the early morning death of a woman who was intentionally lit on fire on a stationary subway train.

The incident took place on Sunday morning aboard an F train at the end of the line at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station in Brooklyn.

Police commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a Sunday evening press conference that surveillance footage indicated the victim and her assailant were both riding the train early that morning. As the train pulled into the station, the assailant walked up to the woman, who may have been sleeping, Tisch said, and used what authorities believe is a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing.

Officers on a routine patrol at the station smelled smoke and noticed commotion on the platform, and soon after discovered the unidentified woman standing in the subway car.

After the fire was extinguished, emergency medical personnel declared the woman dead at the scene.

Tisch said detailed images of the assailant had facilitated the apprehension of a person of interest. Transit police apprehended the suspect after receiving a report from three high school students who had recognized the man.

Police did not identify the person in custody. The victim had not been identified yet, authorities said.

The subway car was sitting idle at the end of the line at the time of the incidents. Often, the doors are left open so the train cars can be cleaned or during a temporary pause in service.

The case marked the second fatality on a New York subway on Sunday.

At 12.35am, police responded to an emergency call for an assault in progress at the 61st Street-Woodside Station in Queens and found a 37-year-old man with a stab wound to his torso and a 26-year-old man with multiple slashes throughout his body. The older man was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital while the younger man was in stable condition, police said.

An investigation was continuing.

The New York governor, Kathy Hochul, this year has sent New York national guard members to the city’s subway system to help police conduct random searches of riders’ bags for weapons following a series of high-profile crimes on city trains. Hochul recently deployed additional members to help patrol during the holiday season.