Russia rounds up thousands of migrants at New Year’s Eve festivities – reports
Reuters Russia’s police have detained thousands of migrants across the country in New Year’s Eve raids with scores of them facing deportation, Russian media reported on Monday. About 3,000 migrants were detained in Russia’s second-largest city of St Petersburg during checks “to prevent crime,” Russia’s RIA state news agency reported. “As it turned out, more […]
World welcomes New Year
Updated: 9:30pm (AEDT)Reuters New Zealanders were among the first in the world to celebrate the arrival of 2024 with a fireworks display in Auckland on Monday. The fireworks illuminated the cloudy night sky and were accompanied by a laser light and animation show. Here’s how some other places and people around the world were bidding […]
Nine suffocate to death in Ugandan New Year firework crush – police
Kampala, Uganda Reuters At least nine people including a 10-year-old boy suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year’s firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda’s capital, police said. People started pushing through a passage in the Freedom City Mall just after clocks struck midnight, […]
World welcomes 2023 and leaves a stormy year behind
Updated: 10:30pm (AEST)Reuters The world welcomed the new year with a packed party in Times Square and fireworks soaring above European capitals, while hoping for an end to the war in Ukraine and a return to post-COVID normality in Asia. It was a year marked by the conflict in Ukraine, economic stresses and the effects […]
“I will survive”: 2020 slinks off into history as fireworks light deserted streets
Reuters Fireworks soared into the sky above the Sydney Opera House, but the harbour below was a deserted ghost town, a fittingly creepy send-off for a year that will not be missed. No light show illuminated Beijing from the top of the TV tower. St Peter’s in Rome was nearly empty for vespers. London’s Trafalgar […]
Christian woman en route to her wedding, 10 others killed in Nigeria
Jos, NigeriaMorning Star News Suspected Boko Haram terrorists killed a woman and her bridal party in north-east Nigeria days before her planned New Year’s Eve wedding, and eight other Christians were killed in separate attacks, sources said. Martha Bulus and her two bridesmaids were stopped on 26th December as they made their way from Gwoza, […]
At least 16 killed in Nigeria after New Year’s Eve church service
World Watch Monitor At least 16 people were killed as gunmen opened fire at churchgoers returning from a midnight service on New Year’s Eve in Omuku, a town in Nigeria’s southern Rivers state. According to the BBC, the New Year’s Eve fireworks initially made it difficult for people to realise that shots were being fired and […]