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New York's Times Square to Sydney Harbor, World Looks Forward to TV-only New Year Celebrations
News 18If ever a year’s end seemed like cause for celebration, 2020 might be it. From New York’s Times Square to Sydney Harbor, big public blowouts are being turned into TV-only shows and digital events. Days ahead of the ball drop in Times Square, it clearly wasn’t New Year’s as usual at the Crossroads of the World. New Year’s Eve will look different around the world after a year in which the virus killed an estimated 1.8 million people, including more than 330,000 in the U.S. Germany banned the sale of fireworks, which residents usually set off in on the streets, and a pyrotechnics show at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate is off. So, too, are the fireworks over the River Thames in locked-down London, where New Year’s Eve also marks Britains final economic split from the European Union.
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