World welcomes 2026
A man celebrates as fireworks light up the sky over Copacabana Beach during New Year's celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday. AP-Yonhap
A man celebrates as he watches New Year's fireworks from the water at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday. AFP-Yonhap
A service member of the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces decorates a dugout with lights at a position near the front-line town of Kostiantynivka, amid Russia's war on Ukraine, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday. Reuters-Yonhap
Visitors pray in front of lanterns attached with New Year's wishes of Buddhist followers at Jogyesa Temple in central Seoul, Wednesday. AFP-Yonhap
Visitors walk beneath lanterns attached with New Year's wishes of Buddhist followers at Jogyesa Temple in central Seoul, Wednesday. AFP-Yonhap
People gather before the New Year's countdown event in front of the Bosingak pavilion where the annual New Year's bell-ringing ceremony is held in Seoul, Wednesday. AP-Yonhap
A vendor sells New Year's eve party goods at a market in downtown Lima, Peru, Tuesday. AP-Yonhap
People pose during New Year's Eve celebrations in Amritsar, India, Wednesday. AFP-Yonhap
Balinese dancers perform as they take part in a cultural parade during a New Year's eve celebration on a main road in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday. EPA-Yonhap
Children perform a traditional Balinese dance to release the sun of 2025 and welcome the sun of 2026 during a New Year's Eve celebration in Denpasar, on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, Wednesday. AFP-Yonhap
People enjoy a ride at a Christmas market at the Red Square in front of Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin in Moscow, Wednesday. AFP-Yonhap
Street performers entertain the crowds on Princes Street during the Hogmanay street party to ring in the New Year in Edinburgh, Scotland, Wednesday. AFP-Yonhap
Children warm their hands by a fire next to a sand sculpture by artist Yazed Abo Jarad of the coming year as displaced Palestinians prepare to usher in the New Year in Deir El-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Tuesday. A fragile ceasefire in October has so far halted two years of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, despite both sides trading accusations of truce violations. AFP-Yonhap
A Taman Kaja community member puts on a performance on New Year's Eve at the Pura Dalem Taman Kaja temple in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday. AFP-Yonhap
People watch the first sunrise of the year on Seonyu Bridge in Seoul, Thursday. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul
A tourist rides a one-humped camel during the last sunset of 2025 on New Year's Eve in Al Wakrah, Qatar, Wednesday. AFP-Yonhap
People are silhouetted while jumping during the last sunset of the year on New Year's Eve at Gorai Beach along the Arabian Sea coast in Mumbai, India, Wednesday. EPA-Yonhap
People watch New Year’s Day celebration fireworks from the Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore, Thursday. Reuters-Yonhap
A light show is projected on the Arc de Triomphe as fireworks explode during New Year celebrations on the Champs Elysees in Paris, Thursday. AP-Yonhap
A young man swings a burning tire in Zone 7 of Sebokeng township, south of Johannesburg, Thursday. The tradition of setting a tire alight and spinning it in the air began during the apartheid era, when black township communities found creative ways to celebrate despite limited resources.
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Children set off fireworks as they celebrate the New Year in Johannesburg, Thursday. AFP-Yonhap