Dozens feared dead after a plane crash in rural Kazakhstan. Kyiv residents spent Christmas morning in bomb shelters amid Russian airstrikes. A new report says that media freedoms in Zambia are under attack. As he prepares to take office in less than a month, President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to reassert U.S. control over the Panama Canal, and he renewed calls to buy Greenland from Denmark. Plus, a new kind of high-tech agriculture in South Africa.
