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Added on the 12/12/2021 12:45:32 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Fresh snow covers Prague as the annual Christmas market opens in the historic Old Town Square and a huge Christmas tree is lit. Heavy snowfall caused traffic disruptions across the country, including at Prague airport, and led to power outages on Saturday. In the south of the Czech Republic, weather services reported 75 centimetres (30 inches) of fresh snow overnight. IMAGES
A Viennese Christmas market is quiet and closed on Monday morning as Austria returns to lockdown. The country is shutting shops, restaurants and festive markets in the most dramatic Covid-19 restriction seen in Western Europe for months. IMAGES
Lawyers representing civil parties and accused at the trial of the 2018 Strasbourg Christmas market attack that killed five people, arrive at the Paris criminal court, which is due to deliver its verdict against four men on trial in the case. IMAGES
Outside Wuhan's Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, once suspected of being the epicentre of the outbreaks, that has been closed since January 2020. More than three years after the discovery of the first cases of the coronavirus, the origin of the pandemic remains enigmatic. IMAGES
Abdulaziz bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's energy minister, Alexander Novak, Russian deputy prime minister in charge of energy, Suhail Mohammed Al Mazrouei, energy minister of the United Arab Emirates and Haitham al-Ghais, Secretary General of OPEC arrive at the OPEC+ meeting in Vienna, expected to agree on major production cuts to prop up prices. IMAGES