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Australia urged nearly a quarter of a million people to evacuate their homes. Authorities said it could get “very, very challenging” and prepared military backup. According to Reuters, soaring temperatures and erratic winds create dangerous conditions. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said defense personnel would stood ready to move to bushfire grounds. Authorities already sent emergency texts to 240,000 people in Victoria and told them to leave.
More than 30,000 demonstrators take the streets in Greece demanding justice for the 57 victims of the country's most deadly train crash a year ago. Protesters blame the collision on official failings and an unsafe rail system. A definitive account of what happened on February 28, 2023 and who may be at fault has not been delivered, with investigators in an official enquiry not due to finish questioning until March 8. IMAGES
Palestinians rally in Ramallah on New Year's eve in solidarity with Gaza. Israeli strikes pounded Gaza as both sides near the end of a dark year and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack will last for "many months." IMAGES
French PM Elisabeth Borne arrives in French Guiana to spend New Year's Eve with the armed forces fighting illegal gold mining in this overseas territory. This is the Prime Minister's first visit to this department of 300,000 inhabitants in the north-east of South America. IMAGES
The facade of the city hall in Tel Aviv, Israel, is illuminated in yellow on New Year's Eve in honor of the hostages held by Hamas since the attack on October 7, 2023. At least 129 hostages are still believed held in Gaza after more than 100 were released in a prisoner swap during a week-long truce in late November. IMAGES
Displaced Palestinians spend the last evening of 2023 at a camp in Gaza's Rafah, near the Egyptian border. Many Gazan families have been pushed into the territory's far south as the battlefront draws ever closer, as both sides near the end of a dark year. IMAGES
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