Now playing Next Culture news Euroviews. Best of Culture 2022: Day 26 - Highs & Lows of the Year Christmas may be over, but our Cultural Advent Calendar continues until the end of the year, with our highs and lows of 2022. Today, the win of Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 26/12/2022
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Now playing Next World News At least 7 dead after shelling in Kherson on Christmas Eve On the day marking 10 months since the start of the war in Ukraine, shells rained around a busy market in the southern port city, starting a fire. 25/12/2022
Now playing Next World News More than 7,000 gather in Vatican for midnight Christmas mass Pope Francis asked people this Christmas to “do something good,” during his homily at Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Saturday. 25/12/2022
Now playing Next Vatican Pope uses Christmas Urbi et Orbi message to lament 'icy winds of war' The traditional Christmas Day message was delivered from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. 25/12/2022
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Now playing Next West Bank Bethlehem rebounds from pandemic, lifting Christmas spirits Tourism is the economic lifeblood of the town in the occupied West Bank, and for the past two years the pandemic kept international visitors away. 24/12/2022