Happy New Year 2020 Countdown Live Celebrations and Fireworks around the World

Celebrations to mark the start of 2020 are being held around the world, starting with Kiribati (Line Islands) at 0900GMT, with New Zealand seeing in the new decade at 1100GMT. Key timings: 1100GMT: Auckland, New Zealand 1300GMT: Sydney, Australia 1500GMT: Pyongyang, North Korea and Seoul, South Korea 1600GMT: Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan 1830GMT: Bangalore, India 1900GMT: Islamabad, Pakistan 2000GMT: Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2100GMT: Moscow, Russia 2200GMT: Athens, Greece; Cape Town, South Africa; Beirut, Lebanon 2300GMT: Paris, France 2300GMT: Berlin, Germany 2345GMT: Edinburgh, UK 0000GMT: London, UK 0200GMT: Rio, Brazil 0500GMT: New York, USA 0600GMT: Mexico City, Mexico

Here are the different live streams for the Happy New Year 2020 Countdown from different countries and places around the world:

President Putin says U.S. Senate will reject President Trump's impeachment

BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump's impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the U.S. impeachment process “far-fetched” Thursday, making a seemingly obvious prediction that Donald Trump will be acquitted in the Senate. Putin said Thursday at his annual news conference in Moscow that the move is a continuation of the Democrats’ fight against Trump. “The party that lost the (2016) election, the Democratic Party, is trying to achieve results by other means,” Putin said. He likened Trump’s impeachment to the earlier U.S. probe into collusion with Russia, which Putin downplayed as being groundless. Putin noted that the impeachment motion “is yet to pass the Senate where the Republicans have a majority.” He added that “they will be unlikely to remove a representative of their own party from office on what seems to me an absolutely far-fetched reason.”
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