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For the second straight year, the city of Bethlehem was quiet on Christmas Day.

In years past, thousands of tourists flocked to Manger Square, which Christians believe is the traditional birthplace of Jesus.

But this year, the mood there is somber amid the war in Gaza.

And peers Emily Fang has more.

At Christmas Mass in the Catholic section of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity,

worshippers and visitors alike crowded into the pews. Nearby, nuns and pilgrims chanted prayers and sang songs in an underground grotto in the church's Greek Orthodox section.

This grotto was believed to be the cave where Jesus Christ was born.

But the church and manger square in front of it was relatively empty.

Celebrations have been muted to mourn the more than 45,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza.

Emily Fang and Pier News, Bethlehem, the West Bank.

Officials in Ukraine say they've received the first billion dollars in promised loans from the United States backed by proceeds of frozen Russian assets. And peers Brian Mann reports from

Keeve that the funding comes as part of a $50 billion loan plan created by G7 leaders last summer.

Ukraine's prime minister, Denise Schmahal, said on social media,

the first billion dollars have arrived.

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