Country by country, the world welcomed 2023 early Sunday morning — and bid goodbye to a year marked by war, economic uncertainties, and COVID variants.
Many cities were celebrating New Year's in full force for the first time since the pandemic, with more than 100,000 gathering on the Embankment of the Thames in
London for a firework show that paid tribute to the late
Queen Elizabeth II, while an estimated million people braved the rain for the New Year's Eve party in New York's Times Square.
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"I just wish everyone a lot of prosperity, peace, and love," Tina Wright, a reveler visiting
New York City from the Phoenix area, told the Los Angeles Times. "And let's just get things moving in the world right now."