Happy 2016! Watch the world ring in the new year

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Friday, January 1, 2016
People watch fireworks exploding over Copacabana beach during New Year celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015.
AP Photo/Felipe Dana-AP

Watch live coverage of New Year's celebrations from around the world from ABC News:



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Tentative Schedule (subject to change):


5:55 a.m. ET: New Zealand


7:55 a.m. ET: Australia


9:55 a.m. ET: Japan


10:10 a.m. ET South Korea (TAPE)


10:30 a.m. ET North Korea


10:55 a.m. ET: Hong Kong


11:10 a.m. ET: Taiwan (TAPE)


2:55 p.m. ET: Dubai


3:45 p.m. ET: Russia


4:55 p.m. ET: Egypt


5:20 p.m. ET: Ukraine (TAPE)


5:40 p.m. ET: Turkey


5:50 p.m. ET: Germany


6:55 p.m. ET: United Kingdom


7:20 p.m. ET (appx.): Edinburgh (TAPE)


8:45 p.m. ET: Brazil


11:50 p.m. ET: New York


12:45 a.m. ET (Next Day): Mexico



PHOTOS: New Year's Eve around the world


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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the South Dakota Attorney General's Office shows a Studebaker with skeletal remains found in Brule Creek near Elk Point, S.D. Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson were last seen May 29, 1971, driving a 1960 Studebaker Lark on their way to a party. (AP Photo/South Dakota Attorney General's Office, File)


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