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Fireworks light up the sky from the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai as the clock strikes midnight in the United Arab Emirates. The world began ushering in the New Year with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid farewell to a virus-ridden 2020. IMAGES
Bangkok celebrates the passage to 2021 with a spectacular, eco-friendly display using 20,000 fireworks made from sticky rice, launched over the Chao Phraya River. IMAGES
In Taipei, the New Year's fireworks display takes place in public, an exception at the beginning of 2021 marked by a resurgence of the Covid-19 epidemic around the world. IMAGES
Fireworks bring in the New Year in Auckland, New Zealand, shot from the top of the Sky Tower in central Auckland. IMAGES
Fireworks kick off the new year in Auckland as New Zealand bids farewell to 2017. 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
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