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Some residents left voluntarily after hearing cracking noises Sunday night and into Monday morning. Fire crews shut off the building's water, gas and power while police put up a cordon with a 250 metre radius. "And you do feel (movement) sometimes when there's strong wind". The 36-story building includes 392 apartments, a retail area, and a childcare center, according to the Sydney Morning Herald .

This story is still developing. "Moreover, North Korea is "unprecedented" in its state sponsorship of "elicit activities, like proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, counterfeiting US dollars, [and] the production and sale of drugs like opium, heroin, and meth [amphetamines],'" Howell wrote".

WELLINGTON, Dec 24 - A large chunk of a flank of the volcanic Anak Krakatau island slipped into the ocean and triggered a tsunami that hit Indonesian shores , killing hundreds of people, officials and scientists said on Monday. The initial speculation by experts, including Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics agency, was that an undersea landslide pushed the wall of coffee-colored water that raced toward the shore.

The Western-backed government in Kabul has been struggling to counter attacks from the Taliban and other militant groups since the withdrawal of most North Atlantic Treaty Organisation combat troops in 2014. Mattis has been widely seen in Afghanistan as a guarantor of USA engagement, and his departure would inevitability raise worries in the minds of many Afghan officials.

Though no link has officially been made, the arrests seem to be in retaliation of Canada's December 10 arrest of Meng Wanzhou , a top executive at Chinese telecom giant Huawei . "We feel that respecting the rule of law, respecting the rights of citizens, of prisoners is extremely important", the premier said in televised remarks.

The four men who have been detained have not been named or charged. United Kingdom police said Saturday that the special operation to regain control of the ship is over, that the vessel has been secured and that four men were detained after the completion of the operation.

Watch above, via MSNBC. It was turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which released it along with questionnaire responses that Barr submitted to the panel. President Donald Trump named William Barr - who was attorney general under President George H.W. Bush - to serve as the next attorney general, though Barr will have to be confirmed by the Senate.

The full repercussions of the President's behavior toward Comey are yet to be resolved, as the matter is still under investigation by Mueller. The ethics official said this week that a recusal was "a close call" but suggested that Whitaker remove himself, even though he was not required to do so.

Acting Incoming Chief of Staff Mulvaney, who is also now the director of the Office of Management and Budget, was accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner during his Capitol Hill negotiations. Mr Trump himself took to Twitter on Sunday to defend his plans for the border with Mexico . The director's comment about the president's softening stance came less than 24 hours after a senior administration official insisted to reporters on Saturday that Congress ...

It appears as if Monday night into Christmas morning a weather system will, indeed, make its way through the QCA with a bit of snow for the region. "Cloudy on Christmas Day with snow showers expected from about Highway 153 on south. After that, we are actually going to see temperatures take off. 'Bing Crosby famously dreamt of it, while movies, advent calendars and Christmas cards are all decorated with snow-filled scenes of a white Christmas.

Kurdish affairs analyst Mutlu Civiroglu said the USA withdrawal, announced abruptly by Trump last week , would open the way "for Turkey to start its operations against the Kurds, and a bloody war will begin". Graham also issued a statement ripping into Trump's decision, calling a withdrawal from Syria an "Obama-like mistake". Turkey views the Kurdish fighters as terrorists due to their links to a Kurdish insurgent group inside Turkey.