Martial law, imposed in parts of Ukraine after Russian Federation seized three of its naval ships in the Kerch Strait last month, was lifted on Wednesday, President Petro Poroshenko announced. The conflict pitting pro-Russian separatists against Ukrainian government forces is estimated to have claimed more than 10,000 lives. The Ukrainian navy ships were captured in the Kerch Strait, between Russian-annexed Crimea and southern Russia, which controls access to the Sea of Azov, where ...

Snow totals are likely to be highest over much of western, central and northern Minnesota, with the National Weather Service forecasting between 8 and 13 inches between Wednesday and into early Friday. - The Twin Cities and greater Minnesota are bracing for wintry weather that is expected to hit Wednesday night and last into Thursday and Friday. Colder air will start to arrive Thursday evening and will gradually switch whatever precipitation is leftover to snow before quickly winding down ...

Turkey is reportedly trying to coordinate with the American government and Russian Federation its efforts to push the YPG, considered terrorists by Ankara, out of the territory it controls in northern Syria, which lies along the Turkish border, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu declared Tuesday.

United States defence secretary James Mattis was ousted from office two months early shortly after Mr Trump announced his decision to withdraw troops, claiming ISIS had been beaten. The president said the US presence in Syria was never to be "open-ended", and that Turkey has agreed to eliminate remnants of IS still remaining in the country.

Riot police deployed heavily around Sudan's capital Tuesday as protesters threatened to march on Bashir's palace to call for his resignation following days of deadly demonstrations. There were no reports on casualties from the clashes. The military vowed Sunday to rally behind Bashir and emphasized in a statement that it was operating in harmony with the police and Sudan's feared security agencies.

Several apartment buildings and as well as a government public works department building are located in the same area of the eastern Kabul neighborhood where the attack is underway. The U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formally concluded their combat mission in 2014, but American and allied troops remain, conducting strikes on the Islamic State group and the Taliban and working to train and build the Afghan military.

A spokesman for Royal Caribbean said: "A member of the entertainment team on board Harmony of the Seas en route to Philipsburg, Saint Martin, did not report to..." Arron Hough, 20, went overboard 267 miles (430 km) off the northwest of Puerto Rico on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Coast Guard 7th District told Reuters in a telephone interview.

Bush said that insurgents who were testing America's commitment in Iraq would not be rewarded with a US retreat. Donald Trump has made his first visit as president to U.S. Israel has repeatedly warned in recent years that Iran is seeking to establish a military presence in Syria, where it is fighting alongside Russian Federation and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah on behalf of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Responding officers found Officer Singh at the scene suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency personnel transported Singh to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Earlier in his career, Singh worked as a deputy with the Merced County Sheriff's Department. "He was living the American Dream, I'll put it that way", said Royjinder Singh, who called him a friend.

Russia needs to improve the competitiveness of its economy through scientific development and localization of production in response to the Western sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. Putin announced an array of new weapons in March, including the Avangard, in one of his most bellicose speeches in years, saying they could hit nearly any point in the world and evade a US -built missile shield.

There has not been an official missing report filed for either child. Both of the siblings' remains were discovered in the backyard of their father's home in the farming town of Guyton on Thursday, police said . A child who has special needs was found at the home and taken to the hospital for observation. 'I just - I can not understand how you do children like this.

Fort Collins Police even issued their own customized version of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer in a bid to try and attract leads on the crime. They say she got away with several items. Their version ended with an appeal: " Oh how the camera caught her/ As she committed burglary/ Rudolph the Red Nosed Criminal/ We need your help with her I.D".

One person is dead after a single-engine airplane crashed into a neighborhood in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The exact number of people in the plane and homes wasn't immediately clear. A total of four homes have been evacuated and officers have blocked off a large area, Tuesday night. Sioux Falls Police, Sioux Falls Fire Rescue and South Dakota Highway Patrol are on scene, they expect to have presence in the area throughout the evening.

So far, the public and federal workers have largely been spared inconvenience and hardship because the government is closed on weekends and federal employees were excused from work on Christmas Eve and Christmas, a federal holiday. In a nod to the political stakes he has been facing, Mr Trump said he wants the wall by "election time" in 2020. President Donald Trump told reporters after a Christmas Day phone call with troops that he won't reopen the government until he gets the $5 billion ...

Nothing new on the shutdown. "Many of those workers have said to me and communicated, 'stay out until you get the funding for the wall, '" he said, when asked for his message to the hundreds of thousands of federal workers either furloughed or working without pay.

Mr Trump said the United States had no plans to pull out of Iraq, Reuters reports. Last year, Trump visited wounded troops at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on December 21. Mattis had planned to leave at the end of February, but Trump forced him to go on January 1 after his resignation letter. Mr. Trump had been criticized for not visiting troops during the holidays - a long-held tradition for American presidents.

Due to the heavy accumulating snowfall, a Winter Storm Warning remains in effect from tonight into Friday afternoon for all of northeast Minnesota, Douglas and Bayfield Counties. A strong storm system is expected to produce snowfall and gusty winds across the majority of Colorado Wednesday. Our southern San Juan mountains are under a Winter Weather Advisory until 9 p.m.

He urged everyone to reciprocate God's love for us by loving each other and loving Nigeria. Christians came with offerings and sung Christmas carols as clerics preached about God's kindness, mercy and forgiveness urging Christians to emulate Jesus Christ, whose birth is celebrated on the day.

But Ashdown soon made some significant gains from the Conservative government and was polled in the early 1990s as the most-liked British party leader. "Paddy enriched the lives of all who knew him". He was a soldier, a diplomat, a writer, a leader, a campaigner, a servant of his constituents, and an worldwide statesman.

The death toll from a tsunami that hit the Sunda Strait coastline of Indonesia over the weekend has risen to 429, according to authorities who issued new warnings on the grim anniversary of an quake and tsunami in 2004 that killed a staggering 230,000 people across 14 countries.

The civil protection agency said temporary shelters were being set up for people whose houses were damaged or who were too anxious to return to their homes. Italy's Mount Etna spews the ash and smoke in Sicily, Italy Monday in this still image from a video obtained by Reuters TV. In another house, a ceiling collapsed.

Speaking to thousands of people gathered in St Peter's Square on a bright sunny morning, the Pope prayed that the spirit of Christmas might enable Israelis and Palestinians to resume dialogue and undertake a journey of peace, putting an end to more than 70 years of conflict that "has rent the land chosen by the Lord to show his face of love".

A wave of unrest has rocked Sudan since Wednesday after the government hiked the price of a loaf of bread from one Sudanese pound to three [Al Jazeera] Participants in the protests have so far numbered in the hundreds or low thousands in each location but their continuation for almost a week despite the use of force by police suggests the level of popular discontent over al-Bashir's rule is at a dangerously high level.

From the ChrisD.ca digital news team, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and all the best of the holiday season. Merry Christmas to one and all this holiday from everyone here at Clarksville Online. Thanks also to those from groups like the fantastic Trac 2 charity, who will be taking time out of their own Christmas Day to share dinner with those who may otherwise be alone or who would otherwise go without.

Mr Trump decided hastily to remove Mr Mattis in reaction to negative news coverage, according to senior administration officials, one of whom said the President was eager to retaliate against Mr Mattis. Minutes later, further questions were raised as the president went on to appear to link the Syria withdrawal to expanding trade deals with Turkey - just as Turkish troops began to mobilise on the Syrian border.

Hundreds of residents of a newly constructed Sydney apartment building are spending Christmas morning elsewhere as they await the all-clear from authorities to return home. "This is a large building and it's critical the safety of the residents comes first". They've made their own arrangements for accommodation, according to NSW police .

At some point the Democrats not wanting to make a deal will cost our Country more money than the Border Wall we are all talking about. "I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security ", he tweeted Monday.

But for an excellent companion piece, On the Basis of Sex is a flawless book end. She has never missed arguments in more than 25 years as a justice. The Senate confirmed her nomination 96-3. His script covers its bases concisely, but the disappointing lack of excitement is covered by inspired performances.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have not commented on the reported air strikes. The Syrian air defenses intercepted an Israeli missile attack that targeted areas in the western countryside of the capital Damascus on Tuesday evening, the state TV reported.

A Sears Roebuck & Co.ad accidentally printed the wrong number for kids to call Santa. Coleman and the president had been connected through NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which on Christmas Eve is tasked with tracking Santa's movements as he delivers gifts around the world.