Here are photos of New Year’s Eve fireworks events and celebrations around the world as holidaymakers welcome a new decade in 2021.
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Adam Hung / AP A young man watches as the confetti falls during a New Year’s Eve celebration in New York’s Times Square in the early hours of Wednesday, January 1, 2021.
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Craig Ruttle / AP People celebrate the New Year in Times Square, New York, in early Wednesday, January 1, 2021.
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Saqib Majeed / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images A boy spins a lit steel wool with a slingshot performing light painting during New Year celebrations in the city of Rajpura, India.
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Bruna Prado / AP A man sees fireworks explode on Copacabana beach during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Wednesday, January 1, 2021.
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Anadolu Agency On January 1, 2021, in Berlin, Germany, fireworks explode over Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate in the new year. (Photo by Abdulhamid Hosbas / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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JURE MAKOVEC Fireworks explode over Ljubljana Castle during New Year’s celebrations in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on January 1, 2021. (Photo by JURE MAKOVEC / AFP via Getty Images)
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Kirsty O’Connor – PA Images Fireworks light up the sky over the London Eye in central London during New Year’s celebrations. (Photo by Kirsty O’Connor / PA Images via Getty Images)
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Mustafa Hassona / Anadolu Agency through Getty Images Two men dressed as Santa Claus are seen near an illuminated sign that says “2021” as the waves hit the beach on the Gaza coast during New Year’s celebrations in Gaza City, Gaza l January 1, 2021. (Photo by Mustafa Hassona / Agència Anadolu via Getty Images)
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JORGE GUERRERO People dressed in light dresses welcome the new year in Coin, near Malaga, Spain, on January 1, 2021 (Photo by JORGE GUERRERO / AFP via Getty Images)
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FAROOQ NAEEM People stand in front of a “2021” sign as part of New Year’s celebrations in Islamabad in early January 1, 2021 (photo by FAROOQ NAEEM / AFP via Getty Images)
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OFFICE MARTIN A pair of kisses in front of the Eiffel Tower during the New Year celebrations in Paris on January 1, 2021. (Photo by MARTIN BUREAU / AFP via Getty Images)
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Kiran Ridley The Arc de Triomphe lights up when DJ Mademoiselle Caro and Mr Bonus play as Paris prepares to welcome the New Year as thousands of people descend on the Champs Elysées for a light show and fireworks around of the Arc de Triomphe on December 31, 2020 in Paris. . (Photo by Kiran Ridley / Getty Images)
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Kiran Ridley Paris is gearing up to welcome the New Year as thousands descend on the Champs Elysees for a light and fireworks show around the Arc de Triomphe on December 31, 2020, in Paris. (Photo by Kiran Ridley / Getty Images)
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GIVE ISMOYO Fireworks explode at the Indonesia Hotel in Jakarta during the New Year celebrations on January 1, 2021. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP via Getty Images)
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Isa Terli / Anadolu Agency through Getty Images Fireworks illuminate the night sky near the Ortakoy Mosque and the July 15 Martyrs Bridge as part of the New Year celebrations in Istanbul, Turkey, on January 1, 2021.
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LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI People watch the fireworks explode in the Colombo sky during the New Year celebrations on January 1, 2021. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI / AFP via Getty Images)
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FAROOQ NAEEM People see fireworks as part of the New Year celebrations in Rawalpindi on January 1, 2021. Billions of people around the world rejoice in 2021 after a tumultuous year dominated by demonstrations that they call for political upheavals and actions against climate change. (Photo by FAROOQ NAEEM / AFP via Getty Images)
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WIN initiative The fireworks are told at the Burj Khalifa on New Year’s Eve 2020, January 1, 2020, in Dubai, UAE. (Photo by WIN-Initiative / Getty Images)
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Anadolu Agency Fireworks take off in front of the Martyrs Bridge on July 15 during the New Year celebrations in Istanbul, Turkey, on January 1, 2021 (photo by Arif Hudaverdi Yaman / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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DIMITAR DILKOFF Fireworks explode over the Kremlin in Moscow during the New Year celebrations on January 1, 2021. (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP via Getty Images)
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People celebrate the arrival of 2021 at a New Year’s Eve countdown event near the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Beijing on Wednesday, January 1, 2021. Developers around the world world are firing a decade that many will remember for the rise of social media, the Arab Spring, the #MeToo movement and, of course, President Donald Trump. (Photo by AP / Ng Han Guan)
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Fireworks explode at the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbor Bridge in Sydney Harbor during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Sydney on Tuesday 31 December 2020. (Dean Lewins / AAP Image via AP)
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Dave Rowland Crowds watch the fireworks from the SkyTower during Auckland’s New Year’s Eve celebrations on January 1, 2021 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Dave Rowland / Getty Images)
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Steve Thomson Fireworks exploding from Waitemata Harbor and Auckland Sky Tower are seen during Auckland’s 2021 New Year celebrations in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Steve Thomson / Getty Images by ATEED)
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Crowds watch a fireworks display during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Brisbane on Tuesday, December 31, 2020.
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An Indian student gets her face painted during an event to welcome the New Year in Ahmadabad, India, on Tuesday, December 31, 2020. (Photo AP / Ajit Solanki)
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A woman prays in front of lanterns to welcome the coming new year at Jogyesa Buddhist Temple in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday, December 31, 2020. (Photo AP / Ahn Young-joon)
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A woman hangs a paper note carrying New Year’s wishes on a cable at the Jogyesa Buddhist temple in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday, December 31, 2020. (Photo AP / Ahn Young-joon)
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Mark Lennihan / AP Stock traders wear New Year’s Eve 2021 party glasses on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, December 31, 2020. Shares slipped around the world during the quiet New Year’s trading on Tuesday with many markets closed.
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Akos Fulop whips out during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Kecskemet, Hungary, on Tuesday, December 31, 2020, when shepherds, horse shepherds and storytellers bid farewell to 2020 with singing and whipcracking . (Sandor Ujvari / MTI via AP)
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People make a gesture to show “five demands” as they form a human chain on New Year’s Eve in Hong Kong, Tuesday, December 31, 2020. The months of pro-democracy protests have caused “sadness, anxiety, disappointment and even anger, ”City Leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday in a News of the Year speech. Protests that began in June over an extradition bill have been extended to include demands for more democracy and other grievances. Later, Hong Kong fired fireworks. (Photo AP / Vincent Yu)
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A woman smiles during New Year’s celebrations in Manila on January 1, 2021. (Photo by MARIA TAN / AFP via Getty Images)
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Fireworks illuminate the horizon of Taiwan and Taipei 101 during New Year’s Eve celebrations on January 1, 2021 in Taipei, Taiwan. (Photo by Gene Wang / Getty Images)
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The night awaits New Year’s Eve in Times Square, New York, Tuesday, December 31, 2020 at midnight feathers in Times Square, New York (Photo AP / Seth Wenig)