World's eight billion people usher in 2023, bidding farewell to turbulent 12 months marked by war in Europe and Africa, catastrophic floods in Pakistan, Lionel Messi's glory in Qatar World Cup, and deaths of Queen Elizabeth, Pele and former pope Benedict
A Palestinian man rides his horse next to the 2023 drawing on the sand at the beach during the last sunset of 2022, in Gaza.
A crowd that had been projected to surpass one million watched as a spectacular 12-minute display showered the waterway and illuminated the Sydney Harbour Bridge. London was meanwhile welcoming crowds to its official New Year's Eve fireworks display for the first time since the pandemic with around 100,000 ticket holders expected to attend the spectacle.
The year, according to UN, was the deadliest year for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the UN started tracking fatalities in 2005. Ukrainian President Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy struck a defiant tone, saying his country will fight the Russian invasion until victorious.
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