A Christmas ceasefire in the Ukraine war has been proposed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The nationalist leader also suggested another prisoner of war swap with Ukraine to Russian ...

“Let us pray that at Christmas there will be a ceasefire on all war fronts, in Ukraine, in the Holy Land, throughout the Middle East and throughout the world,” the pope said. Francis ...

On December 24, 1914, the fighting along the Western Front of the First World War stopped suddenly. It was just five months earlier that Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The continent was ...

Why is the truce still remembered? In a horrific war that claimed the lives of 10 million soldiers, the Christmas Truce represents an extraordinary moment of human kinship. When the First World ...

Hungary actively promoted the idea of a "Christmas ceasefire". However, Ukraine made it clear that "there is no real 'Christmas truce' on the table", dismissing the supposed proposals as "a PR ...

Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban proposed a ceasefire and a major exchange of POWs between Russia and Ukraine during Christmas in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin MOSCOW ...

(Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday it had not received any proposals about a “Christmas ceasefire” in Ukraine, as fighting looks set to drag on through the winter. Ukrainian President ...

Why is the truce still remembered? In a horrific war that claimed the lives of 10 million soldiers, the Christmas Truce represents an extraordinary moment of human kinship. When the First World ...

the fighting stopped for Christmas. It wasn’t planned, but... Here’s What You Need to Know: The 1914 truce was to be the only significant attempt at quieting the guns by the soldiers at the ...