Description
Added on the 31/12/2019 21:52:35 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images of the fireworks display in Bangkok, Thailand as the city welcomes 2024. IMAGES
Fireworks light up the sky from the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai as the clock strikes midnight in the United Arab Emirates. The world began ushering in the New Year with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid farewell to a virus-ridden 2020. IMAGES
Russia's capital, Moscow, celebrates the New Year with fireworks over Red Square. IMAGES
More than a thousand revellers gather on the Champs-Elysees in Paris to watch fireworks and welcome the new year under the Arc de Triomphe. IMAGES
The nationalist pro-Irish Irish party Sinn Fein says the installing of a nationalist first minister in North Ireland, after the main pro-UK party agreed to endorse a deal with London, will be "a moment of very great significance". Speaking in Belfast, Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald says it will mark "the extent of change that has occurred here in the north and indeed right across Ireland". The The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP agreement with London -- approved on January 30 in an internal vote at a closed-door meeting in Lisburn, near Belfast -- formed a basis to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, that has been paralysed for nearly two years. SOUNDBITE
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.