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Farewell 2022: the world prepares to move to 2023

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Steph Deschamps / December 31, 2022

Farewell 2022: the eight billion people of the world are preparing to leave behind them a turbulent year, between the war in Ukraine, inflation and the world title of Lionel Messi, before entering fully into 2023.

 

For many, New Year’s Day will be an opportunity to chase away the memories of Covid, as the virus leaves the minds, without disappearing for all that.

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It will also be an opportunity to untie the purse and put aside months of sobriety forced by the pandemic and record inflation around the globe.

 

In Australia, Sydney will be one of the first major cities to ring in 2023, reclaiming its title as the “New Year’s Eve capital of the world” after two years of closure and festivities stifled by the Omicron variant.

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Australia’s borders have since reopened and more than a million people are expected to gather on Sydney Harbour to watch the launch of more than 100,000 fireworks. City officials estimate that nearly half a billion people will watch the show online or on television.

 

By mid-day, hundreds of people were already occupying the best spots to watch the show. “It’s been a pretty good year for us, getting rid of the Covid is great,” commented David Hugh-Paterson, 52, who was sitting outside the Sydney Opera House amidst the growing crowds protecting themselves from summer showers under umbrellas.

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“If we can get everyone to join in the celebration and look forward to the coming year with renewed optimism and joy, then we’ll have succeeded,” said the fireworks organizer, Fortunato Foti.

 

This is in contrast to the feeling left by 2022, which saw the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Pele, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jiang Zemin and Shinzo Abe.

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This year also rhymed with the “Great Resignation”, a phenomenon of mass departure of employees from their jobs after the pandemic, with a slap in the face at the Oscars ceremony and the ruin of billionaires, swept away by the crash of cryptocurrencies.

 

But above all, it will forever be associated with the return of war in Europe with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on a continent already battered by two world wars.

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In more than 300 days, nearly 7,000 civilians have been killed and 10,000 wounded, according to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

 

Sixteen million Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes. For those who remain, daily life is punctuated by power cuts, Russian bombings and a curfew from 11pm to 5am.

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Each person goes through this conflict in his or her own way: a silent prayer, a celebration, in a common spirit of resistance.

 

Further east, Vladimir Putin’s Russia is not in the mood for fun. Moscow cancelled its traditional fireworks shows after the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, asked residents how they would like to mark the passage to the new year.

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“A peaceful sky over our heads” is the only wish of Muscovites like Irina Shapovalova, 51, a nursery worker.

 

The national broadcaster VGTRK promised “a New Year’s atmosphere, despite the changes in the country and the world”.

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But this year, the show will be without the usual artists or the presenter-star Maxim Galkin, who left in exile after denouncing the war in Ukraine and is now considered an “agent of foreigners ».

 

Also in the east, at the far end of the continent, Covid has made a dramatic comeback in China, while vaccination is allowing the rest of the world to return to some semblance of normal life.

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Beijing abruptly abandoned its “zero Covid” policy earlier this month, a reversal immediately followed by an explosion in the number of infections. Hospitals and crematoria alike may be overwhelmed, but rallies are planned everywhere for the transition to 2023.

 

However, Shanghai authorities have announced that no activities will take place on the city’s famous waterfront.

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At least 25 dead in a bus accident in Peru

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Sylvie Claire / September 23, 2023

 

At least 25 people, including two children, died when a bus crashed into a ravine in the Andean region of Huancavelica, in southern Peru, the authorities announced in a revised death toll on Monday evening.
 
An initial police report put the death toll at 20, with a further 35 injured. A statement from the Ministry of Health later that morning put the death toll at 24. Finally, at the end of the day on Monday, the death toll stood at “25 dead and 34 wounded”, according to the Ministry of Defense.
 
The accident occurred on Sunday night, when the bus carrying over 50 passengers from Huanta in Ayacucho to Huancayo in the Junin region ran off the road.
 
Images show the damaged bus lying on its side near a river below the ravine, debris and personal belongings strewn all around.
 
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte expressed her “condolences to the families” from New York, where she will be attending the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations. The Peruvian Episcopal Conference, for its part, urged the government to “carry out a serious investigation” to prevent such accidents from happening again.
 
On August 13, another accident in the same region left 13 people dead and 5 seriously injured.
 
Road accidents are frequent in Peru, mainly due to speeding and poor road maintenance, especially in mountainous areas.
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Japan is the country with the most centenarians, with over 92,000.

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Sylvie Claire / September 17, 2023

In Japan, the number of people aged 100 has reached a record level: the world’s third-largest economy now has 92,139 people aged 100 or over. That’s 1,613 more than a year ago, reported the Ministry of Health in Tokyo on Friday.
 
For over half a century, the number of people aged 100 has been rising every year. Due to a low birth rate and almost non-existent immigration, no other industrial state is aging as fast as this East Asian country.
 
Japan’s population is also shrinking at a record pace. Last year, the number of Japanese fell by 801,000, the biggest drop since comparable data have been recorded. There are now 122.4 million.
  
When the Japanese Ministry of Health began compiling statistics in 1963, there were 153 centenarians. Twenty-five years later, there were over 10,000. According to the latest figures, around 88% of centenarians are women. Japan has the longest life expectancy in the world. Life expectancy for women is around 87 years, and 81 for men.
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Morocco earthquake: death toll now stands at 2,946

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Steph Deschamps / September 17, 2023

The death toll from the earthquake in Morocco has risen to 2,946, the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior announced on Wednesday evening. A further 5,674 people were injured.
 
The previous death toll was 2,901. The death toll is expected to rise further. Hopes of finding survivors are now very slim. Rescue workers have not yet been able to reach all the villages affected in the Atlas Mountains. 
 
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the country on Friday night. The epicenter was located some 80 kilometers southwest of Marrakech. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 300,000 people in and around Marrakech were affected by the disaster.

 

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