Dan Ronan

After hearing the Pope's message, Maria Dudak from Ukraine said she was encouraged.

The body of the last Israeli hostage in Gaza has not been found, raising questions about whether Israel will move forward to a second phase of a peace deal with Hamas.

NPR's Ava Batrani has more.

It's NPR.

The most popular Christmas movie on broadcast and streaming TV?

Home Alone.

As NPR's Netta Ulaby reports, the movie from 1990 has been top-ranked the film by Niece Nielsen three out of the past four Decembers.

Someone took Nick.

Prosecutors in Paris say a pro-Russian hacking group is claiming responsibility for a recent cyber attack on the French National Postal Service.

Package deliveries came to a halt just days before Christmas as central computers were knocked offline Monday.

and postal workers could not track packages, and online payments were also disrupted.

France and other European allies are accusing Moscow of waging what they say is cyber warfare against them because of their support for Ukraine in the nearly four-year-old war with Russia.

I'm Dan Ronan, NPR News in Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Roman.

President Trump says the U.S.

military on Christmas Day struck Islamic State targets in the West African nation of Nigeria.

This after he claimed the group had been targeting Christians in the evenly split Christian Muslim country.

The U.S.

says the strikes were carried out in coordination with Nigerian authorities in

and multiple ISIS targets were killed.