Millions of people around the world said goodbye to the tumultuous 2023 and welcomed 2024 with spectacular events, hoping it would bring peace and prosperity.
With hope and optimism for a better year, the entire planet welcomed 2024 with smiles and wild celebrations as well as spectacular fireworks that turned the night into day. Millions of people around the world said goodbye to the turbulent 2023 – marked by bloody wars. in Ukraine and the Middle East, the climate crisis and the development of artificial intelligence – and welcomed with spectacular events in 2024, in the hope of bringing peace and prosperity.
New York
Times Square was filled with people from early on. At 12 the famous ball dropped, confetti filled the sky marking the start of the new year.
Police, deployed in midtown Manhattan, checked ‘suspicious’ cars, closed streets and ‘filtered’ the flow of the crowd with barriers. In a televised appearance before the start of celebrations in the city, Democratic President Joe Biden expressed optimism about the US economy, praised his country’s resilience and announced the “return” of the American people.
Brazil
Crowds filled the streets and the famous Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro to ring in the New Year with fireworks, music by a symphony orchestra and performances by local pop, funk and samba stars.
Fireworks display in London
Night was turned into day in London by the spectacular fireworks.
. Thousands of fireworks lit up the sky over London in a display that lasted about 15 minutes.
Celebrations in Australia
A few hours earlier, in Sydney, Australia, the so-called “New Year’s Eve capital of the world”, over a million people flooded the harbor area and enjoyed the spectacular fireworks show against the backdrop of the iconic Opera House, which turned 50 years old in October.
Fireworks also lit up the skies of Auckland (New Zealand), Hong Kong, Bangkok (Thailand), Manila (Philippines).
Paris
Over a million people gathered on the Champs Elysees in Paris to celebrate the coming of the new year. A fireworks display over the Arc de Triomphe was the highlight of the festivities against the backdrop of the Olympic Games emblem that referred to the top sporting event the French capital will host next summer.
Germany
And in Germany, people took to the streets to welcome 2024
Israel
In Tel Aviv and southern Israel, seconds after the clock struck midnight, Israeli anti-missile defenses intercepted rockets fired by the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
2023 will be remembered for the unprecedented and bloody attack by Hamas from the Gaza Strip on Israeli soil on October 7th-–and the brutal Israeli retaliation that followed. The United Nations estimates that nearly two million Gazans have been displaced since the start of the Israeli siege, about 85% of the population.
Hostilities continued in Ukraine in the early hours of 2024, as the end of next month marks two years since the start of the Russian invasion. In his New Year’s message, President Volodymyr Zelensky promised to “annihilate” the Russian forces that invaded his country.
In 2024 “the enemy will feel the wrath (of weapons systems) of domestic production,” President Zelensky said, assuring that Ukraine will have a million drones in its arsenal. But Vladimir Putin in his own speech promised that Russia would “never back down”, praising the soldiers fighting on the front lines.
Source :Skai
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