This is your morning briefing for today, which unfortunately, still bring along some sad news from around the world.
Pope Francis has called on people in developed countries to live a simpler and less materialistic life. He also condemned the huge divide between the world’s rich and poor, saying Jesus’s birth in poverty in a stable should make everyone reflect on the meaning of life.
In her last Christmas message, the President of Malta dearly thanked the people who “as your President you have welcomed me, were gentle with me, understood my limitations both as President and as a person, and participated with us with enthusiasm so that work for the wellbeing of society does not stop and continues to grow”.
Catania Airport has reopened a unit airspace and this will allow the arrival of 4 aeroplanes per hour. The airport advised that for any information on individual flights, please contact exclusively your airline company. The airport was closed in view of the eruptions of Etna.
The governor of Mexico’s central Puebla state, Martha Erika Alonso, has died in a helicopter crash, just days after being sworn into office.
The bodies of 34 Ethiopian Christians executed in Libya by ISIS in 2015 have been exhumed from a mass grave, Libyan authorities said on Monday.
Clashes erupted on Monday between Tunisian protesters and security forces in the western city of Kasserine following the self-immolation of a Tunisian photo journalist, eyewitnesses told Reuters.
Afghan authorities on Tuesday collected 43 bodies from a government compound in the Afghan capital Kabul that was targeted by a suicide bomber and extremists armed with assault rifles on Monday, officials said.
In Malta a number of people were caught in breach of traffic regulations during inspections carried out by the police on Christmas night.The police did not give the number, but said that “several” were caught. In all, 350 cars were stopped by officers in Zabbar, Zejtun, Marsa, St Paul’s Bay, Bugibba, Sliema and St Julian’s. Among the contraventions were driving without valid licence, driving without insurance, driving without a seat-belt and invalid car licence.
Oscar-winning US actor Kevin Spacey is facing a felony charge for alleged sexual assault of a teenager in a restaurant in 2016, prosecutors said on Monday.
Fielding a phone call from a seven-year-old on Monday, US President Donald Trump put himself on Santa Claus’s naughty list by raising doubts about his existence.
