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During his Urbi et Orbi (city and world) speech on Christmas Day, Pope Leo XIV has called for an end to all wars and for people to think about the conditions in Gaza. Source link

Pope Leo XIV holds the first Christmas mass of his pontificate, greeting thousands of faithful in St Peter’s Square before the Christmas Eve service. Source link

The White House has ordered US military forces to focus almost exclusively on enforcing the “quarantine” of Venezuelan oil, a US official says. Source link

The Department of Justice says the release of the Epstein files will take “a few more weeks” after a million additional documents were uncovered.  Source link

The small number of Christians remaining in Gaza have marked Christmas early with subdued celebrations in the shadow of ongoing conflict and occupation. Source link

The US government says newly released documents from the Epstein files contain “untrue and sensationalist” claims about Donald Trump. Source link

Donald Trump says he wants the United States to lead the world in the “6G race” and has given his government one year to find out how to begin making it happen. Source link

The British comedian now faces seven charges of sexual assault involving six separate women. Source link

Someone who referred to themselves as “A” at “Balmoral” emailed convicted child sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001, asking if she had found them “some new inappropriate friends”, the latest Epstein files document dump has revealed. Source link

A high-flying Australian financier accused of swindling a struggling Vietnamese petroleum trading company has been languishing in a Ho Chi Minh City cell for two months. Source link