1. Police identify Mohamed Yussuf Jama as semi-truck driver who killed four on I-55

The 5 On Your Side I-Team is digging into the details of the crash on Interstate 55 that killed four young women and injured several others. Police said it happened when a semi-truck failed to slow as he approached the vehicle in front of him. A 53-year-old man named Mohamed Yussuf Jama was at the wheel. Police said he's from Colorado. Illinois State Police said there is no indication that the driver attempted to stop before hitting the vehicles in front of him. Investigators also said they're looking at all possibilities of how this could've happened. However, November's fatal-crash wasn't the first for the owner of the semi: Ohio-based Forward Air Solution, a national corporation that ships goods all over the country.

2. Two men arrested after teenager "placed in headlock and forced to apologise for being gay" on London Underground

A teenager was placed in a headlock and forced to apologise for being gay during a homophobic attack on a London Underground train, police have said. British Transport Police are appealing for information about the two men who allegedly attacked a 19-year-old who was travelling on a westbound Jubilee line train between West Ham and North Greenwich. The teenager and his friends were wearing fancy dress for an event they were going to during the attack at around 11:10pm on 21 October. The police said the two men boarded the train at West Ham and began verbally abusing the victim and his friend, using homophobic language.

UPDATE: BBC reports that the two have been arrested.

3. Boys sit for their exams as AK-47-wielding guards stand over them at Afghan Islamist school

Images showing the next generation of Taliban militants pouring over their exam papers – as armed invigilators patrol above them - have emerged from Afghanistan. Taliban chiefs have been setting up a string of of schools in their strongholds in Afghanistan and remote parts of Pakistan to indoctrinate boys into their fundamentalist teachings that embrace Sharia law. The Imam Ghazali School is in the Hindu Kush mountain range north of the capital Kabul and the pictures were released by the Taliban's official TV channel.







4. Britain facing "unprecedented" terror threat level as NINE plots thwarted in last year

MI5 chief Andrew Parker told Theresa May and her senior ministers that the defeat of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria did not mean the terror threat was over, warning that social media was being used to encourage attacks in the UK and elsewhere. Following the briefing at a cabinet meeting, Mrs May told ministers that the threat from terror was at an 'unprecedented' level, despite the military setbacks experienced in its Middle East strongholds by Islamic State - also known as Daesh. Home Secretary Amber Rudd added that the pace of attack planning has increased 'significantly' over the past year. Later, reporting back to MPs in the Commons, the Home Secretary outlined the terror threat facing the UK, saying there was "simply more terrorist activity" which had been partly inspired by more terrorist propaganda and instruction videos online.







5. Candidate for president of Finland releases campaign advert









6. Swedish Government to Ban Websites that List Ethnic Origin of Criminal Suspects

Sweden has proposed banning the public use of legal document search engine Lexbase, which is used to identify the ethnic origins of Swedish criminal suspects. According to the Swedish government, the data released by the website is too sensitive for the public and should be limited only to professionals like lawyers, journalists, and researchers. Previously, the website was protected under the Swedish Freedom of Expression Act, but the new legislation could limit what data they are allowed to release, Dagens Industri reports.







7. Former French PM: "Jihadists Act in the Name of Islam"

Former French prime minister Manuel Valls has insisted that not only do jihadists act in the name of Islam, but denying terrorists are true Muslims removes the responsibility of other Muslims to act. Mr. Valls, who served under Socialist President François Hollande, made his comments in a recent interview in which he stressed the importance of helping moderate Muslims combat radical Islamic extremism, L’Express reports. 'To say that Islam and Islamism have nothing to do with it is to deny any responsibility to act to our fellow Muslims. We must help them, we must help them to fight within themselves these totalitarian ideologies of Salafism or the Muslim Brotherhood,' Valls said.







8. UK: Islamic School Which Did Not Supply Toilet Paper for ‘Cultural Reasons’ Graded ‘Inadequate’

A £1,500-a-year Muslim girls’ school has been given the lowest grading after a series of failings including not providing toilet paper for 'cultural reasons'. Government regulator Ofsted identified a range of concerns at Park Avenue Girls’ High School in Stoke-on-Trent, including hygiene, safeguarding problems, and the discovery of sectarian material on the premises. On the issue of toilets, staff insisted loo roll was available at reception on request, but not provided as a matter of course “because [the pupils] are Asian.” However, some pupils told inspectors they avoided the toilets for this reason. Inspectors also criticised the fact there was a lack of soap in the lavatories. There were also no showers on the premises.







9. Terror suspects "planned to bomb Downing Street and murder Theresa May"

Counter-terror police have foiled an alleged plot to bomb Downing Street and murder PM Theresa May. Two suspects were arrested during raids in London and Birmingham last week, it emerged tonight. Scotland Yard said: “Both men were remanded in custody to appear at Westminster magistrates court." The pair – Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, of North London, and Mohammed Aqib Imran, from south east Birmingham – were held on November 28.

10. The Michael Hansen film, Killing Europe, was shown to a full house and standing ovation Sunday night at the Zionist Centre in Toronto (after the Ottawa Public Library folded under pressure)

The full movie can be seen online here.