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New Year, New Hopes: The world counts down to 2016
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New Year's eve fireworks illuminate Sydney's iconic Harbour Bridge and Opera House during the traditional fireworks show held before the main midnight event on December 31, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / Peter PARKS)
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Workers push a 2016 countdown clock into position during a rehearsal for a New Year's eve countdown celebration at the Imperial Ancestral Temple in Beijing. At 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, China will ring in 2016 ahead of much of the rest of the world on Thursday night. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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Volunteers work on a Rose Parade float in preparation for the parade in Pasadena, California. The 127th Rose Parade will take place on New Year's Day in Pasadena. (REUTERS/Kevork Djansezian)
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Tourists take their selfies with New Year 2016 head bands at the Mrs Macquarie chair as thousand gathered to watch the New Year fireworks over the Sydney harbour. (AFP PHOTO / Saeed KHAN)
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A man sells effigies of first lady Nadine Heredia and of Yahaira, a dancer and girlfriend of Peru's soccer player Jefferson Farfan, in a market in Lima, Peru. Peruvians traditionally burn effigies of popular figures from the past year as part of New Year's celebrations. (REUTERS/Mariana Bazo)
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French Police officers stand guard amid tourists at Trocadero Plaza next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. France strengthens security measures ahead of unusually tense New Year's eve celebrations in Paris after November attacks that left 130 dead and hundreds injured. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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Nepalese Gurung community women wearing traditional attire take their selfie at a parade to mark their New Year known as "Tamu Loshar" in Kathmandu. The indigenous Gurungs, also known as Tamu, are celebrating the advent of the year of the monkey. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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A woman poses for a photo next to tractors of Minsk Tractor Plant decorated to mark the upcoming New Year celebrations during a show in Minsk, Belarus. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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School children celebrate New Year's eve in Jammu. (Nitin Kanotra/HT Photo)
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Police officers are deployed to secure New Year celebrations in Bali, Indonesia. Indonesia is on high alert after authorities said last week that they had foiled a plot by Islamic militants to attack government officials, foreigners and others in the world's most populous Muslim nation. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
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Street artists perform during a New Year's parade in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. New Year's is the biggest holiday of the year in Russia and former Soviet Union, followed by Orthodox Christmas celebrated on January 7. (AFP / VANO SHLAMOV)
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