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Christmas in France is subdued this year, similar to last year. The country has tightened its travel rules as France records a daily record of 91,608 COVID cases on Friday (24th December 2021), as the Omicron variant surges across the country and Europe. The previous absolute record of 86,852 cases dates back to early November 2020, at the peak of the second epidemic wave. In Paris, the mayor’s office announced on Saturday (December 18) that the fireworks and concerts planned on the famous avenue des Champs-Elysées for New Year’s Eve have been cancelled. France already closed nightclubs from Friday (December…

Christmas in Italy under covid restrictions. The country further tightened its restrictions on Thursday (23 December), barring unvaccinated from public spaces and enforcing mask-wearing outdoors. Outdoor New Year’s Eve celebrations have been banned, and discos will be closed until January 31. The latest from infections A daily record of nearly 44,600 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours on Thursday, as well as 168 deaths. The country already requires unvaccinated EU citizens to quarantine for five days if entering the country, while vaccinated visitors from EU countries must get a negative test within 24 hours of arrival. The…

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LEWIS HAMILTON is not afraid of going head-to-head with George Russell at Mercedes in 2022.

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THE decision to implement new Covid restrictions that ruin New Year’s Eve has been delayed until after Christmas.

MEGHAN Markle and Prince Harry have released their official 2021 Christmas card and it gives the world our first glimpse of baby Lilibet.

Dalton Hoath “lost everything” when his four little boys died in a house fire ten days before Christmas – now he says their presents are still waiting under the tree

The Queen’s traditional Christmas Day message will this year be deeply personal as the monarch spends her first festive period without her husband for 73 years

A monument at a Hong Kong university that commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre was removed by workers early Thursday over the objections of its creator from Denmark. The 8-metre tall Pillar of Shame, which depicts 50 torn and twisted bodies piled on top of each other, was made by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt to symbolise the lives lost during the bloody military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. The Pillar of Shame monument The Pillar of Shame monument became an issue in October, with the university demanding that it be removed, even as…