New Year's Eve 2018: celebrations around the world – live
Follow all the celebrations as the clock strikes midnight and countries see out 2018 to welcome in 2019
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More from New York, courtesy of Joanna Walters:
Donald Trump is set for an unusually quiet, even lonely, New Year’s Eve in a divided America. The president normally hosts a flamboyant black-tie gala at his private Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach. But this year he’s rattling around the White House in Washington, apparently waiting for a deal from Democrats to fund his promised wall on the border with Mexico – a deal that is not forthcoming. The federal government is now in its 10th day of being partially shut down, after Trump refused to back away from his demand for taxpayers’ money for the wall and Congress declined to acquiesce.
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Photos are in from Turkey.
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Source: theguardian