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The mountain lions were not believed to have killed anyone but human remains were found in their droppings.

Junior economy minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher, however, said that Carlos Ghosn, who is of Lebanese origin and who fled house arrest in Tokyo to Beirut, 'should not have absconded'.

The decision comes after the ISIS-linked Easter Sunday Bombings in 2019, which targeted Catholic churches and posh hotels, killing over 250 people. Tourism which contributes 5 per cent to the island's GDP was dealt a severe blow after the bombings.

Japan's new Emperor Naruhito made the statement during his first New Year speech since ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne to tens of thousands of well-wishers.

Carlos Ghosn will hold a news conference in Beirut on January 8, a lawyer for Ghosn said on Wednesday, two days after abruptly arriving from Japan, where he was under house arrest and accused of financial misconduct.

The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council released a statement from the family of Josef Neumann and a graphic photograph Wednesday showing severe head injuries he received Saturday at a rabbi's home in New York.

The shootout took place in Darqad district after the security forces had successfully cleared out the Taliban from several other districts in the past week.

In the book 'Consent', Vanessa Springora, 47, now a leading publisher, describes how she was seduced at the age of 14 by writer Gabriel Matzneff, then aged 36 years her senior, and how this left lasting scars.

Protesters at the harbourfront counted down chanting "Ten! Nine! Liberate Hong Kong, revolution now!" as they lit up their phones in a sea of lights.

The Sunday shooting at a church service in the Fort Worth Suburb of White Settlement was the latest attack on a house of worship in the US.

Global warming has sent temperatures rising around the world, with the United Nations saying earlier this month that 2019 was on course to be one of the three hottest years on record.

A New Year's Day march on January 1, has been given police permission and will start from a large park in bustling Causeway Bay and end in the central business district, say its organisers, the Civil Human Rights Front.

The cease-fire provides a window during which a peace agreement with the United States could be signed that would allow Washington to bring home its troops from Afghanistan and end its 18-year military engagement there.

The crowd, a mix of young and elderly people, wore black and turquoise surgical masks to hide their identities as they listened to organisers speaking on a makeshift stage.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison also announced financial support for some volunteer firefighters in New South Wales, the state worst hit by wildfires ravaging the nation.

The lawmaker had cancelled a similar contest in August last year after police arrested a man who had threatened to kill him over his plan.