Christmas News
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New Jersey -
Someone out there will have hell to pay. Figurines of the baby Jesus are disappearing all across New Jersey and police officers are scurrying to capture the thieves.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
After more than a month sweating in the tropical heat, dozens of Brazilian Santa Clauses celebrated the end of the season Monday by shaving or trimming their thick white beards.
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By AFP
Rome -
Around 4,000 migrants and refugees were saved from waters between Italy and North Africa over the course of the Christmas weekend, with further rescue operations expected in the final days of an "exceptional" year, officials said Monday.
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By AFP
Manila -
Muslim guerrillas killed 10 civilians in the majority Catholic Philippines over Christmas, the military said Sunday, with some Christians in the affected areas now too scared to sleep in their homes.
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By AFP
Berlin -
Forget the return of Star Wars. For a family in Berlin, this Christmas saw the return of Miko -- a cherished black and white cat who went missing in the German capital in 2008.
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This year's Doctor Who Christmas special served up plenty of action and the probable final meeting between the Doctor and the character River Song. Warning: this review contains spoilers.
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Downton Abbey, a program about the English gentry, came top in the British Christmas television ratings for the most watched program on one channel. However, the monarch's broadcast to the Commonwealth won overall.
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By AFP
Den Haag -
Dutch King Willem-Alexander made a passionate appeal to his people to show solidarity with those in need, saying in a Christmas Day message the country must not give way to fear.
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By AFP
Washington -
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama -- and their two dogs -- on Friday paid tribute to US soldiers in a joint address wishing Americans a Merry Christmas.
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By AFP
Vatican City -
Pope Francis offered a Christmas message Friday of mitigated hope for an end to the world's conflicts, backing recent accords on Syria and Libya and praising those who shelter migrants."We pray...
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By AFP
San Jose -
Wading through knee-deep floods, 12-year-old Joana Yambao pushes her infant sister in a black wash basin along the surface of the filthy water in a typhoon-hit Philippine village where residents have little to celebrate this Christmas.
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By AFP
London -
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II used her Christmas address Friday to highlight the triumph of good over evil after a string of attacks in 2015, and to draw attention to the plight of refugees.
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San Bernardino -
After the tragic December 2 San Bernardino Terrorist Attack, Christmas is still alive and well, especially in the foresty San Bernardino Mountains.
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By AFP
Madrid -
Two hundred homeless people feasted on an exquisite Christmas Eve meal of seafood soup, prawns, baked gilthead bream and roast shoulder of lamb on Thursday, in the Spanish capital's palatial city hall.
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By AFP
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Roberia Lima dos Santos steps timidly up to the counter and asks in a tiny voice if this is the place where they write letters."I want to wish my son a merry Christmas and tell him I won't be able to visit him in prison," says the Brazilian woman.
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By AFP
Vatican City -
Pope Francis was expected to appeal for reconciliation of fractured communities in his Christmas Day blessing Friday, as the world takes stock of a year of violence and suffering that saw hundreds of thousands flee their homes.
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By AFP
Manila -
Seven Christian farmers were killed on Thursday as Muslim guerrillas launched a series of attacks in the troubled southern Philippines, the military said.
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By AFP
Paris -
It was a subdued Christmas Eve in Paris on Thursday, with tourist numbers down, security bolstered at shops and churches, and locals still on edge after last month's jihadist attacks.
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Bogot -
The city of Bogotá, Colombia, is having a wonderful Christmas this year. The program of Christmas-related activities in the city began in late November and will run throughout December, until January 4.
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By AFP
Madrid -
An unemployed Senegalese man who was rescued by the Spanish coastguard after making a risky journey from Morocco eight years ago on a packed wooden boat won 400,000 euros ($437,000) in Spain's annual Christmas lottery, local media reported Wednesday.
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Greenwich -
In keeping with holiday tradition, hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, the founder of Tudor Investment Corporation, has put up another elaborate Christmas lights display at his Belle Haven estate in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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By AFP
Gaza -
It is a bitter Christmas for Elias Manna, who will celebrate alone for the first time because his five sons have left the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian territory hit by three wars since 2008.
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By AFP
Mugadishu -
Somalia's government has banned celebrations of Christmas and New Year in the Muslim majority country, saying the festivities might attract Islamist attacks.
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By AFP
Jerusalem -
Israel's government and largest labour union reached an 11th-hour wage deal Wednesday to prevent a paralysing general strike that had threatened to disrupt travel for thousands of pilgrims at Christmas.
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By AFP
Bandar Seri Begawan -
Christmas is just around the corner, but there are no tinsel-laden trees or Santa hats in the oil-rich sultanate of Brunei, where celebrations have been banned under a shift towards hardline Islamic law.
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By AFP
London -
The father of toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose lifeless body on a Turkish beach became a symbol of the refugee crisis, has made a Christmas appeal to the world to open its doors to Syrians fleeing conflict.
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Acclaimed singer-songwriter and YouTube sensation Steve Grand is back with his newest holiday music video for "All I Want for Christmas Is You."
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London -
Many cities look impressive this time of year, decorated with lights and trees in celebration of Christmas. London is particularly impressive, as this Digital Journal photo essay reveals.
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By AFP
Jerusalem -
Israeli anti-racism activists have called for an investigation after a Jewish extremist leader urged a ban on Christmas celebrations in the country and called Christians "vampires".
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By AFP
London -
A capsized rubber dinghy used by a group of migrants to reach the Greek island of Lesbos earlier this year has been suspended mid-air in a London church in a poignant Christmas homage unveiled on Monday.
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Christmas Image
Iwo road is a major trading center in its own right
Christmas on the Square on November 15 in Edmonton.
A little over 7 inches of snow covers the ground in January 2010.
Winter Harp is on an annual pre-Christmas tour ending Dec. 21. Winter Harp
A small market. Note the man striking a pose dressed in a stylish "Dansiki" robe
108th annual Santa Claus Parade comes to Toronto with floats, clowns, spectacles, cheers and laughter.
Houses in Ashbury, Sydney decorated for Christmas.
Another boat with holiday lights sits by the dock.
Houses in Ashbury, Sydney decorated for Christmas.
The Christmas Star outside Macy's at Westlake Center.
The Grinch sits atop the local firehouse.
Christmas decorations at the tarred section of the bar beach backing party people on the night of the 25th of December, Christmas day in Lagos, Nigeria.
Houses in Ashbury, Sydney decorated for Christmas.
7 inches of snow and a half inch of ice made for a beautiful January morning.
A display inside the mall showed a "Alice in Wonderland" theme complete with a white rabbit and clock
Christmas on the Square on November 15 in Edmonton.
Snowfall at Percy Priest Lake.
108th annual Santa Claus Parade comes to Toronto with floats, clowns, spectacles, cheers and laughter.
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