In pictures: Here’s how people across the world celebrated New Year’s Eve

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PARTYGOERS ACROSS THE world celebrated the countdown to midnight on New Year’s Eve with fireworks and brightly lit signs. It offered a hopeful start to 2024 for some, even as the world’s ongoing conflicts raised security concerns and led to muted or even cancelled festivities. Stunning fireworks displays bloomed at famous locations such as the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, the sleek glass walls of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, in the United Arab Emirates, and accompanied a collective cheer filling the air in Nairobi, Kenya. As the clock struck midnight in Australia, more than a million people —...