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Paris (AFP) - Fireworks lit up skies across the world as crowds gathered to welcome 2024, but airstrikes marred the year's earliest hours in Gaza, Israel and Ukraine, while a powerful earthquake triggered tsunami warnings in Japan. Many around the world are hoping to shake off surging living costs, global tumult and extreme weather in the coming year, which heralds elections for half the planet's population of more than eight billion. Yet with the new year barely started there were already ominous signs. At the stroke of midnight several rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israe...
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New York (AFP) - The world's eight billion people have been ushering in 2023, bidding farewell to a turbulent year marked by war in Europe, stinging price rises, Lionel Messi's World Cup glory and the deaths of Queen Elizabeth, Pele and former pope Benedict. Many set aside pinched budgets and a virus that is increasingly forgotten, but not gone, to embrace a party atmosphere on New Year's Eve after three pandemic-dampened years. In New York, confetti rained down after the famous ball drop in Times Square, a tradition that dates back to 1907, with visitors from across the world waiting hours in...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Cable news giant CNN has told its celebrity presenters they need to cut back the on-air boozing this New Year's Eve, with bosses seemingly determined to make their broadcast a more sober affair. Viewers in the United States have delighted in recent years at the sight of Anderson Cooper and other network notables quaffing drinks in New York's Times Square as revelers party behind them. The tie-loosening has led to some viral moments, including a giggling Cooper and co-host Andy Cohen downing shots of tequila, with the white-haired reporter seemingly struggling to hold it tog...
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New York (AFP) - Confetti fluttered on to frontline workers scattered across Times Square after fireworks burst above eerily quiet landmarks from Sydney Harbour Bridge to Copacabana beach, as the world ushered in the New Year with muted celebrations and said good riddance to a pandemic-ridden 2020. After a grinding year that has seen at least 1.8 million people die from Covid-19, fresh waves of infection have sparked renewed lockdowns and forced would-be revellers to extend their 2020 tradition of watching events from the sofa. In New York's famous Times Square, the usual overflow crowd was re...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - "A mother," "a cancer patient," "someone who loved the rain": Los Angeles health officials tweeted every 10 minutes Thursday to mark the deaths of a coronavirus victim, as they implored people not to go out on New Year's Eve. "#Every10Minutes someone dies of COVID-19 in LA County. People who were loved and will be missed," said the first post at the stroke of midnight Thursday. "Until we slow the spread, the next person to tragically pass away could be someone you know." The warnings come amid fears that residents of Los Angeles -- one of the main centers of the coronavirus...
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Sydney (AFP) - The world began ushering in the New Year Thursday, with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid farewell to a virus-ridden 2020. After a grinding year that has seen at least 1.7 million people die from Covid-19, fresh waves of infection have sparked renewed lockdowns and forced would-be revellers to extend their 2020 tradition of watching events from the sofa. From Sydney to Rome, firework displays, pyre burnings and live performances will be watched online or on television -- if they have not been cancelled altogether. The eagerly awaited firs...
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