Australia is just starting its summer season. Smoke from wildfires shrouds a road near Moruya, Australia, on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020. Two Manitobans, Geoffrey Smith, and Trevor Tetrault are heading to Australia to help with the ongoing wildfire situation.

The largely German-speaking autonomous region of northern Italy , with its ski resorts in the Dolomites and quaint villages around Bolzano, is popular with German tourists. Six people were killed, a fire service official in Lutago told AFP , all of them German. Those injured were taken to hospitals in South Tyrol and Innsbruck.

That was until early Friday in Baghdad , when a United States air strike killed Soleimani, who headed the overseas arm of the Revolutionary Guards and was regarded as the second most powerful figure in Iran after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The man had attacked "several people" in the suburb of Villejuif before being "neutralized", said the Paris police department. The attacker, who was not wearing any shoes, seriously injured two others before cops shot him dead. Philippe Bugeaud, deputy director of the regional judicial police, said there were a number of religious books in the 22-year-old attacker's bag, "some of which we can classify as being Salafist".

The drone strike on Baghdad's worldwide airport Thursday killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran's elite Quds Force and architect of Iran's operations across the Middle East. What did President Trump say? "I appreciate President Donald Trump's bold action against Iranian aggression". So when the USA takes actions, in airstrikes that kill 25 Iranians last week, obviously, that raised the threat level.

MNG Jet Havacilik AS said in a statement that it filed a criminal complaint on January 1 about what it said amounted to "the illegal use of its jet charter services". From there, Ghosn allegedly flew to Turkey and then on to Lebanon, where he is said to have legally entered the country with a French passport. "My family had no role whatsoever".

At 12-feet in diameter, lit with some 32,000 LEDs and weighing in at over 11,000 pounds, the Times Square Ball, redesigned for this year, is the world's largest crystal ball, Bennett said, calling it "the universal symbol of the New Year ".

But in the early hours of the September 7, moments before it was expected to land, ISRO lost contact with Vikram, just 2.1 kilometres above the lunar surface. Last month, NASA released an image showing the debris field left on the moon by the doomed lander. India's second lunar mission lander Chandrayaan 2 had lost contact shortly before the scheduled attempt to soft-land on the moon on September 7.

KEYE reported that witnesses told authorities they had heard Egwuagu say something along those lines when he left the house with a bloody knife in hand and a smile on his face. Officials said that Egwuagu showed up to his sister's house around 5:30 a.m. and "was having a crisis". First responders tried to make efforts to save her life, but those attempts were not successful, Dark said.

The Trump administration announced Thursday that it will prohibit fruit, candy, mint and dessert flavors from small, cartridge-based e-cigarettes that are popular with high school students. "It places the responsibility on the retailer who sells", noted Matt Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. They also apply only to cartridge-based products, which the FDA says are easier for teens to acquire and hide.

Just over 10 minutes later, it dropped from the radar screen and went down in the mountainous, heavily forested Wulai area southeast of the capital. Rescuers scour the wreckage of the helicopter on Thursday. Beijing considers Taiwan a wayward province and has vowed to bring it under Communist Party control, whether through diplomatic means or by force. Although the Unites States has no formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, it is the island's strongest worldwide backer and main arms supplier.

The New York Times story included new details on top officials pressuring President Trump to release the aid dollars to Ukraine . Esper is quoted as saying that the aid has some 'really good benefits from it, ' including that Ukraine mainly bought USA -made military equipment with the tax dollars.

Wilson, a former reserve deputy for the Hood County Sheriff's Office, said he felt an instinct the moment the stranger walked in with his long coat, wig and a fake beard. Texas officials praised state gun laws, including a measure passed this year that affirmed the right of licensed handguns to carry a weapon in places of worship, unless 'an installation does not prohibit them.

If you were not able to keep up with the New Year resolutions of last year because of some reasons, it's time you reflect why you missed those and add them to your New Year resolutions list this year. Whangarei happiness coach Linda Reid says New Year's resolutions are often just good intentions; they need a plan to succeed. Remember, it's always better to start small and go upwards from there.

Sydney chose to press ahead with its fireworks display despite calls by some members of the public for it to be canceled in solidarity with fire-hit areas in New South Wales, of which the city is the capital. Other areas where fireworks displays have been cancelled or postponed include Wollongong, Maitland, Orange, Berry, Shoalhaven, Huskisson, Armidale, Port Macquarie, Liverpool, Campbelltown and Tweed Heads.

About 4,000 residents in the southeastern town of Mallacoota in Victoria state fled toward the water Tuesday morning as winds pushed an emergency-level wildfire toward their homes. By Tuesday evening, some people were even returning to their homes, according to Victoria's Country Fire Authority Chief, Steve Warrington, though he added that "a number of houses" in are believed to be destroyed or damaged.

Today sunny skies with highs in the low-mid 40s. Thursday night kicks off our next round of rain, and it should be on the lighter side as it starts toward midnight. The rain chance late Thursday will likely be southeast of the turnpike but especially near I-35 so most spots will remain dry. "Those north of USA 6 will likely see 1-3" of snow with the most in Southwest Michigan.

Mr Biden has premised much of his presidential bid on appealing to moderate Democrats, independents and Republicans who have been alienated by President Donald Trump . Senate, as Pelosi continues to insist she wants an outline of what the Senate trial will look like before she sends them on. Biden said that while he couldn't think of a specific Republican off the top of his head, he stated that there are "some really decent Republicans" but the more "well-known" members of the GOP need ...

The thirsty koala bear climbed up on the cycle to drink water from the cyclist water bottle. "There were about a dozen cyclists around me watching this (all men) and several commented that it was genuinely the best thing they've witnessed", she wrote while sharing the clip of the thirsty koala drinking from the water bottle.

This could imply, with the present makeup of the legislative frame, that each and every Democrat and the Senate's two independents, in addition 20 Republicans , must vote in choose of doing away with Trump for the measure to go. She has berated Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell - who will take an oath of impartiality as a juror in the trial - for publicly acknowledging his "total coordination" with the White House.