
Revellers gather to take part in New Year celebrations at a public park in Yangon on December 31, 2022. - AFP
YANGON/SINGAPORE/NEW YORK (AP): New Year's celebrations swept across the globe, ushering in 2023 with countdowns and fireworks - and marking an end to a year that brought war in Europe, a new chapter in the British monarchy and global worries over inflation.
The new year began in the tiny atoll nation of Kiribati in the central Pacific, then moved across Russia and New Zealand before heading deeper, time zone by time zone, through Asia and Europe.
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