News of Thursday 3 January 2019

• Nasa's New Horizons: 'Snowman' shape of distant Ultima Thule revealed
• 1,879 American tourists visit Iran in nine months
• Iraq seeking ways to bypass unilateral US sanctions on Iran
• Trump rejects Democratic calls to end shutdown, says won't give up on wall
• Kurdish fighters withdraw from Manbij: Syria
• Iranians can ‘do whatever they want’ in Syria, Trump says