Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Hurst. Christmas celebrations return to Gaza for the first time in more than two years of war. NPR's Anas Baba reports the tiny Palestinian Christian community in Gaza marked the day with hymns and tolling bells.
For the past two years, Christians here in Gaza hunkered down behind the walls of this church, the only one left standing in Gaza.
Chapter 2: What Christmas celebrations are happening in Gaza this year?
They lived here, prayed here, and survived the Israeli military's bombardments of Gaza City. More than 20 Christians were killed in the Israeli attacks at this church and another that was destroyed. Today, though, this community of just 500 or so Christians in Gaza is singing again.
And with the fragile ceasefire in place now, the Palestinian children at the Holy Family Church in Gaza marked Christmas this year with new clothes, as the community gathered to both celebrate the birth of Jesus and mourn the many Palestinians killed in the war. Anas Baba, NPR News, Gaza City.
In Turkey, police detained 115 suspected members of the militant group ISIS in coordinated raids across the country over allegations of plots linked to Christmas and New Year's. Authorities say they issued more than 130 arrest warrants after learning of the planned attacks. The BBC's Sebastian Usher has more.
This is not unusual in Turkey. They take these preventive measures regularly and often detain quite large numbers of suspects. And it's been pretty successful. I mean, if you go back about a decade in Turkey, there was a real threat from ISIS coming across the border from Syria and then from Iraq with what was going on with Islamic State then.
Since then, there have been attacks, but not on that scale and not with that regularity.
The BBC's Sebastian Usher reporting. Wall Street was closed today on this holiday-shortened trading week because of the Christmas holiday, but when trading resumes tomorrow, investors will be looking for a Santa Claus rally. NPR's Raphael Nam reports.
For many households across the country, it's the time of family Christmas traditions. And for Wall Street, there's nothing more traditional than the Santa Claus rally. For reasons that have never been really clear, stocks have tended to do well in the last five trading days of the year, as well as the first two sessions of the new year. And so far, it's been a promising start.
Stocks rose on Wednesday, with the S&P closing at a record high. But a warning here. It doesn't happen all the time. Last year, instead of a rally, traders got coal when Santa left behind a market sell-off. Rafael Nam, NPR News.
And tomorrow is a full day of trading on Wall Street. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The congressional gerrymandering fight for next year's midterm election is continuing to play out in a number of states. As NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reports, much of that fight is now in the courts.
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