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Picture of coca leaves being used in a ritual of predictions at the Wishes Market in Lima. AFP photo/Ernesto Benavides
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Workers prepare the number 2 for the 2012 Times Square New Year's Eve celebration in New York. AFP photp/Don Emmert
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Jeff Straus, President of Countdown Entertainment, talks about the new Waterford Crystal triangles featuring this year's "Let There Be Friendship" design on the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball in New York. AFP photo/Don Emmert
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A picture taken late on December 25, 2011, shows New Year's street decorations in central Tbilisi. AFP photo/Vano Shlamov
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A picture taken late on December 25, 2011, shows New Year's street decorations in central Tbilisi. AFP photo/Vano Shlamov
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A man rides in a horse cab at the central Ala-Too Square decorated to mark the upcoming a New Year holiday in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek. AFP photo/Vyacheslav Oseledko
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Jewellery representing happiness, health and money among other things, are being sold at the Wishes Market in Lima. AFP photo/Ernesto Benavides
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People carry Chinese lanterns across a street in Beijing ahead of Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations. AFP photo/ED Jones
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A woman sells plush dragon toys, the Chinese zodiac horoscope symbols of the upcoming New Year 2012, on a street in central Moscow. AFP photo/Natalia Kolesnikova
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A long camera exposure picture taken shows streaks of lights of the cars driving past an illuminated New Year tree at the central Republic Square in the Armenian capital Yerevan. AFP photo/Karen Minasyan
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Women sell pine branches to be used as New Year trees on a street in central Moscow. AFP photo/Natalia Kolesnikova
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