In Photos: New Year’s Eve Celebrations Around the World

Celebrations in Palace Square, St Petersburg, Russia.

Photograph: TASS/Barcroft Images

Fireworks at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Seeing in the new year in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Fireworks over the Acropolis, Athens, Greece.

Photograph: Orestis Panagiotou/EPA

Fireworks illuminate the sky next to the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany

Photograph: Friedemann Vogel/EPA