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<\/p>\n Ukraine. <\/strong>Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the conflict in Ukraine, said Russian president Vladimir Putin, according to Reuters. In an interview to Russian state television, he said it’s not Russia who refuses to engage in talks. He also said his country was acting in the right direction, defending national interests and those of its citizens. On the ground, sirens were heard on Sunday morning in Kyiv and all across Ukraine. Russian strikes on Saturday in the Kherson region killed 16 people and wounded dozens. The city of Kherson was freed by the Ukrainian troops on 11th November, but part of the Kherson region is still under Russian control.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Christians are celebrating Christmas, the birth of Christ. The holiday is based
\non the description in the biblical gospels of Matthew and Luke. More than two
\nthousand years ago, the Virgin Mary and Joseph, the man she was engaged to,
\ntravelled from Nazareth to Bethlehem to register for a census ordered by the
\nRoman emperor. Mary had been pregnant following the miraculous apparition of
\narchangel Gabriel, who announced to her that she was to give birth to the
\nMessiah. In Bethlehem, Mary and Joseph stayed in a cave used as a shelter for
\ncattle and that’s where Mary gave birth to Jesus, the Saviour. Three wise men
\ncame from the East, guided by a star, to the place where Jesus was born,
\nbringing him gifts and recognising that a king was born. <\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Pope Francis on Sunday delivered his traditional Christmas message from the
\ncentral balcony of St. Peter’s Square in Rome. In his Christmas eve homily, he
\ncondemned the human hunger for wealth and power and decried war, whose main
\nvictims are the weak and the vulnerable. Men and women in our world, in their hunger for wealth and power,
\nconsume even their neighbours, their brothers and sisters, said the
\npontiff, without directly mentioning the Russian-Ukrainian war during his
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\nThe Romanian government is to decide in its final meeting this year to be held
\nin the coming days whether to extend the 10 eurocent subsidy on the price of
\npetrol and diesel oil beyond January 1st. In recent days, the price
\nof petrol has fallen, even dropping below 6 lei per litre at some petrol
\nstations. The price of diesel oil also dropped to around 7.2 lei. This comes
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\nMany Americans are feeling the effects of a powerful winter storm and extremely
\nlow temperatures causing mass outages over the Christmas weekend. Travel has
\nbeen seriously disrupted at a time when tens of millions of Americans want to
\nbe with their families for the winter holidays. More than 5,500 flights were
\ncancelled on Friday, accounting for 20% of air traffic that day, said US
\ntransport secretary Pete Buttigieg. 2,300 other flights were cancelled on
\nSaturday. Canada was also affected, with weather alerts in all its provinces. Hundreds
\nof thousands of people are without electricity and many flights were cancelled
\nfrom the airports in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. (CM)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"