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Germany to re-legalize circumcision

Germany’s Parliament approved a bill on Wednesday that explicitly legalizes circumcision, following months of uncertainty over the law after a court declared the practice illegal. The surgery is one of the most common medically unnecessary procedures performed around the world, and while it is mostly safe, it also carries the…

Four found guilty of Danish newspaper attack plot

A Danish court on Monday found four men guilty of “terrorism” over a plot to kill the staff of a newspaper that first published controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The three Swedish nationals and one Tunisian living in Sweden had pleaded not guilty to the terrorism charges, but a district…