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For the second year, the Christmas eve celebration in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem was muted by the pandemic precautions.

Pope Francis celebrated Christmas Eve Mass before an estimated 2,000 people in St. Peter’s Basilica, going ahead with the service despite the resurgence in COVID-19 cases. (Image credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP)

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The count, by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, comes after more than a decade of a war that’s killed at least 350,000 people and displaced millions. (Image credit: Aaref Watad/AFP via Getty Images)

The father of NPR’s Uri Berliner packed a stuffed monkey when he fled the Nazis as a child. He kept the toy for decades before donating it to a museum, an act that led to a remarkable discovery.

After luring asylum-seekers to the EU as a political stunt, Belarus has now sent people back to the dangerous place they were escaping, rights groups and migrants tell NPR. (Image credit: Maxim Guchek/BelTA/AFP via Getty Images)

Over 1,000 cops participated in last month’s evacuation of people refusing to leave are sold to real estate developers

Eran Segal, who advises government, says country could see 15,000-20,000 cases a day at height of coming wave

The key is among Mandela memorabilia being sold by Guernsey’s auction house in New York on Jan. 28.