The worsening wildfires in Australia
A helicopter drops water on a bushfire behind houses in Bundoora, Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 30, 2019.
In Sydney, Australia, city officials are going ahead with New Year’s fireworks, despite calls for the spectacle to be canceled amid record dry conditions and massive wildfires. Also, the US military struck Iranian-backed forces in Iraq and Syria on Sunday — a reprisal for a rocket attack last week that killed an American contractor. Plus, an Israeli-Canadian doctor working in an Indigenous community built a six-foot-tall menorah out of ice.
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