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World greets 2025 after sweltering year of Olympics, turmoil, and Trump

Tourists take photos with a New Year 2025 numerals decoration displayed next to Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi on December 31, 2024. [AFP]

Crowds will marvel at fireworks and toast champagne to greet 2025 on Tuesday, waving goodbye to a year that brought Olympic glory, a dramatic Donald Trump return, and turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine.

It is all but certain 2024 will go down as the hottest year on record, climate-fuelled disasters wreaking havoc from the plains of Europe to the Kathmandu Valley.

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