Fireworks, weapons light skies as world enters 2024

1st January 2024

Hours earlier, more than a million partygoers had packed in around the harbor in Sydney, the self-proclaimed "New Year's capital of the world," to watch eight tonnes of fireworks.

PREMIUM News

People watch the traditional New Year's fireworks at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 1, 2024. (Photo by TERCIO TEIXEIRA / AFP)

NewVision Reporter

@NewVision

#Fireworks #2024 #New Year

Fireworks illuminated skies over Paris, Rio and Sydney to celebrate the entry to 2024, while in Israel, Gaza and Ukraine, rockets and strikes marked the year's earliest hours.

Much

This is a premium article please Subscribe

Fireworks, weapons light skies as world enters 2024

Hours earlier, more than a million partygoers had packed in around the harbor in Sydney, the self-proclaimed "New Year's capital of the world," to watch eight tonnes of fireworks.

People watch the traditional New Year's fireworks at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 1, 2024. (Photo by TERCIO TEIXEIRA / AFP)

NewVision Reporter

@NewVision

Related Stories

New Year's: Rukungiri bars children from night prayers, fireworks

Police warn against celebratory tyre burning on New Year’s

How Ugandans welcomed the new year

'Social responsibility is more than sweeping roads and markets'

Police issue festive season guidelines, warn against crime

Mpuuga’s Masaka event, a stage for political fireworks