PARIS, Jan 1 — With fireworks planned in Paris, hopes for an end to war in Kyiv, and a return to post-Covid normality in Australia and China, Europe and Asia bid farewell to...
PARIS, Jan 1 — With fireworks planned in Paris, hopes for an end to war in Kyiv, and a return to post-Covid normality in Australia and China, Europe and Asia bid farewell to 2022.
Women hold bengal fires next to a Christmas tree during a celebration the New Year eve before a curfew, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in front of the St Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv December 31, 2022. — Reuters pic“We are not giving up. They couldn’t ruin our celebrations,” said 36-year-old Yaryna, celebrating with her husband, tinsel and fairy lights wrapped around her.
Paris was set to stage its first New Year fireworks since 2019, with 500,000 people expected to gather on the Champs-Elysees avenue to watch. It was also the warmest New Year’s Eve ever recorded in France, official weather forecaster Meteo France said. Sydney welcomed the New Year with a typically dazzling fireworks display, which for the first time featured a rainbow waterfall off the Harbour Bridge.
“This virus should just go and die, cannot believe this year I cannot even find a healthy friend that can go out with me and celebrate the passage into the New Year,” wrote one social media user based in eastern Shandong province. It was the city’s biggest New Year’s Eve celebration in several years. The event was cancelled in 2019 due to often violent social unrest, then scaled down in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic.
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