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Feb
2014
Europe hope the new year brings better times kitsap sun New york(Ap)From teeming
times square to a onceisolated asian country celebrating its first public new
year's eve countdown in decades, the world looked to the start of 2013 with hope
for renewal after a year of economic turmoil, searing violence and natural
disasters. Fireworks, concerts and celebrations unfolded around the globe
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a discount to ring in the new year and, for some, to wring out the
old. "With all the sadness in the country, we're looking for some good changes
in 2013,"Laura concannon, of hingham, mass., said as she, her husband, Kevin,
and his parents took in the scene in bustling Times Square on Monday. A
blockslong line of bundledup revelers with new year's hats and sunglasses
boasting"2013"Formed hours before the first ball drop in decades without dick
clark, who died in april and was to be honored with a tribute concert and his
name printed on pieces of confetti. Security in times square was tight, with a
mass of uniformed police and plainclothes officers assigned to blend into the
crowd.With police commissioner raymond kelly proclaiming that times square would
be the"Safest place in the world on new year's eve,"Officers used barriers to
prevent overcrowding and checkpoints to inspect vehicles, enforce a ban on
alcohol and check handbags.Monday.They hadn't moved from their spot because"If
you leave, you lose your place,"She said, shivering behind an iron barricade
with a clear view of one times square, the building where Louis
Vuitton Clutches the crystal ball hovered. "It's the first time and
the last time,"She said. Elsewhere hours earlier, lavish fireworks displays lit
up skylines in sydney, hong kong and shanghai.In the united arab emirates city
of dubai, multicolored fireworks danced early tuesday up and down the world's
tallest building, the burj khalifa.In russia, spectators filled moscow's iconic
red square as fireworks exploded near the kremlin. Organizers said about 90, 000
people gathered in a large field yangon, myanmar, for their first chance to do
what much of the world does every dec.31 watch a countdown.The reformist
government that took office in 2011 in the country, long under military rule,
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feel like we are in a different world,"Said yu thawda, a university student who
went with three of her friends. Parts of europe held scaledback festivities and
street parties, the mood a bit restrained if hopeful for a 2013 that is
projected to be a sixth straight year of recession amid greece's worst economic
crisis since world war ii.About 22, 000 revelers in the madrid square celebrated
the arrival of the new year under umbrellas as rain fell steadily. London, the
often soggy british capital, was dry and clear, though, as the familiar chimes
of the clock inside the big ben tower counted down the final seconds of 2012 and
a dazzling display of fireworks lit the skies above parliament square.People
cheered as the landmarks were bathed in the light of the display, which included
streamers shot out of the london eye wheel and blazing rockets launched from the
banks of the river thames. There were impromptu fireworks displays throughout
much of london as people remembered a year that saw olympics glory, the queen's
diamond jubilee and the announcement that prince william and the former kate
middleton are expecting their first child welcome news that offset some of the
economic gloom. To the north in scotland, 85, 000 people gathered near the base
of edinburgh castle for the wild hogmaney celebration, helped by five
soundstages featuring a number of top bands. Elsewhere, the atmosphere of
celebration was muted with concern. Hotels, clubs and other sites in new delhi,
the indian capital, canceled festivities after the death of Louis Vuitton
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off days of mourning and reflection about women's safety.In the philippines,
where many are recovering from devastation from a recent typhoon, a health
official danced to south korean rapper psy's"Gangnam style"Video in an effort to
stop revelers from setting off huge illegal firecrackers, which maim and injure
hundreds of filipinos each year. And even in times square, some revelers checked
their cellphones to keep up with news of lawmakers' efforts to skirt the fiscal
cliff combination of expiring tax cuts and acrosstheboard spending cuts that
threatened to reverberate globally.And the elementary school massacre in
newtown, conn., and Superstorm Sandy mingled into the memories of 2012. "This
has been a very eventful year, on many levels,"Denise norris said as she and her
husband, the rev.Urie norris, surveyed the crowd seeking to jam times square for
a countdown show with ryan seacrest as host and musical acts including taylor
swift, carly rae jepsen, neon trees, flo rida and pitbull.
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