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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko takes part in Ukraine's newly created independent Orthodox Church's first service in Kiev after a historic break with the Russian Orthodox Church that has enraged Moscow. The service came a day after the Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew based in Istanbul handed over a formal decree that finalised recognition of Ukraine's new Church. IMAGES
Metropolitan Pavlo, the director of the Ukrainian capital's historic Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, appears in court on the charges of inciting religious hatred and denying Russian aggression. Despite the church officially breaking ties with the Russian Patriarchate after the invasion of Ukraine last year, Kyiv believes it is still de facto dependent on Moscow. IMAGES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, in Kyiv. IMAGES
Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov holds talks with the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer, a month after Moscow launched its military operation in Ukraine. IMAGES
Cologne, Dec 24 (EFE/EPA).- The faithful attended Thursday a Christmas Eve mass service at the Cathedral in Cologne. As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise throughout Germany, the government has imposed a second strict lockdown and companies are to close from December 16 to January 10, 2021. (Camera: FRIEDMANN VOGEL) SHOT LIST: CHRISTMAS EVE MASS AT THE COLOGNE CATHEDRAL, GERMANY.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).