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Iran Press TV / The Associated PressIranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei openly weeps as he leads a prayer over the coffin of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike.
Millions mourn: Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wept as he prayed over the remains of his slain top general as millions of mourners took to the streets of Tehran. READ MORE
Senators seek answers: Two Democratic U.S. senators are calling on President Donald Trump to immediately declassify the administration’s reasoning for the assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Meanwhile, Trump insists Iranian cultural sites are legitimate potential targets. The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: Sunny with increasing cloudiness this afternoon and then a few flurries, with blowing snow late this afternoon, a high of -1 C, peak winds at 40 km/h gusting to 60 this afternoon, and wind chill as low as -18.
What’s happening today
Dan Himbrechts/AAP Images via APFirefighters battle the Gospers Mountain Fire in New South Wales, Australia.
Australia burns: The death toll from the dearly wildfires Down Under have increased to 25, and rains today won’t help much. Two thousand homes have been destroyed by the fires, which have scorched an area twice the size of the U.S. state of Maryland, The Associated Press reports. READ MORE
Court case: Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s trial for five sex-crime charges is scheduled to begin with jury selection in New York. READ MORE
Clash in Quebec: The Jets face the Canadiens in Montreal at 6 p.m. CT. In his latest column, Mike McIntyre says the Jets should bear some of the blame for their controversial loss in Minnesota this weekend. READ MORE
In case you missed it
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS‘I can’t tell you how I’m just so lucky. I have to be the luckiest person,’ Lt.-Gov. Janice Filmon says of her life so far.
‘One minute you’re fine’: The Free Press spoke with Lt.-Gov. Janice Filmon for the first time since she had surgery for breast cancer this fall. “I have to be the luckiest person,” she said of her life. “And if I get another 30 years out of this cancer operation, I’ll have been really lucky.” Jessica Botelho-Urbanski reports. READ MORE
Golden Globes: Director Sam Mendes’ 1917 won the award for best dramatic film at the Golden Globes in Los Angeles last night. Earlier, Renée Zelleweger won best actress in a dramatic film for Judy, while Joaquin Phoenix won the corresponding award for Joker. READ MORE
Call to pull poems: NDP MLA Nahanni Fontaine is asking Canadians to demand the removal of two poems by a man convicted of killing an Indigenous woman from the parliamentary poet laureate website. The Canadian Press reports. READ MORE
On this date
On Jan. 6, 1945: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that a second German winter offensive threatened Strasbourg from three directions as British and U.S. troops butted up against staunch German resistance. War-torn western Germany shuddered from the effects of more than 5,000 tons of British and Canadian bombs overnight, followed by U.S. bombardment the following day. In Hungary, Russian tanks and infantry fell on the German relief army marching toward Budapest. READ MORE
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