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Asia rings in 2026 and Australia is defiant after its worst mass shooting

31 December 2025
This content originally appeared on Trinidad Guardian.

Auck­land was the first ma­jor city to ring in 2026 with a fire­works dis­play launched from New Zealand’s tallest struc­ture, Sky Tow­er, fol­lowed by a de­fi­ant cel­e­bra­tion in Aus­tralia in the af­ter­math of its worst mass shoot­ing.