Latest News LIVE: People celebrate virus marred Christmas globally

Latest News LIVE updates: The BJP will fight till the democratic rights of the people of Bengal are restored, the party's state president Dilip Ghosh said. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she was not invited to the centenary celebrations of Visva Bharati by the authorities of the central university. 

The European Parliament said it will analyse the post-Brexit trade deal clinched by the EU and Britain in detail before deciding whether to approve the agreement in the new year. The two sides reached the deal just seven days before Britain exits one of the world's biggest trading blocs in its most significant global shift since the loss of empire.

Marking Christmas celebrations, Pope Francis said "Christmas is the feast of God's love for us: the divine love that inspires, directs and corrects change, and defeats the human fear of leaving "safety" to cast us back onto the "mystery". He had earlier said that If the pandemic has forced us to be more distant, Jesus, in the crib, shows us the way of tenderness to be close to each other, to be human.

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