Christmas under Donald Trump brought air strikes abroad and political threats at home, as the US president used the holiday to project a vision of power rooted less in peace than grievance, even as aides leaned into their Christian faith.

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Friday said that the government appealed to the Maoists to abandon the language of violence and gunfire and join the mainstream of development.

Several powerful explosions rocked Kyiv on Saturday, according to an AFP journalist, as authorities warned that the Ukrainian capital was under threat of missile attack.