Elon Musk has publicly accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of being “complicit” in grooming gangs that systematically targeted vulnerable girls. He also condemned Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips for rejecting calls to hold a national inquiry, describing her as a “rape genocide apologist.”

The death toll from a terror attack at a Christmas market in eastern Germany has risen to five after a man identified as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a Saudi-born psychiatrist, plowed his rented black BMW into a crowd, injuring over 200 others. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said 40 of the injured are in severely critical condition.

Iraq is considering a constitutional amendment that would lower the legal age of marriage for girls to 9, effectively legalizing child rape.

An individual plowed their black BMW into pedestrians at high speed at a crowded Christmas market in Germany at around 7 p.m. local time Friday, resulting in at least two deaths and an estimated 60 people injured. The suspected driver, a 50-year-old Saudi national who worked as a doctor, was arrested after the incident.

The leadership of the Global Methodist Church has condemned the killing of three members of the United Methodist Church in Nigeria amid reports that GMC members were responsible.

After a two-and-a-half-year legal battle that saw her imprisoned for 19 months in Nigeria, Rhoda Jatau, a Christian mother of five, has been fully acquitted of blasphemy charges, according to the legal advocacy group ADF International, which supported her case.

In a departure from their longstanding position of political neutrality, Switzerland voted to ban Hezbollah.