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Watch: Iraqi Kurds celebrate Nowruz with torchlit mountain procession

Nowruz symbolises the passing of the dark season and the arrival of the season of light, but has also come to stand for Kurdish hopes for freedom and self-rule.

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Spain's "Fallas" festival ends with burning of giant ninots

Fireworks and flames took over central Valencia on Tuesday (March 19) as locals and thousands of tourists celebrated the end of a four-day festival with the burning of over 380 ornate and colourful monuments made up of giant figures known as ninots, in the "Crema de Fallas" (burning of the fallas).

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Watch: Thousands gather for burning of ninots at Fallas festival

Each neighbourhood in the city spends a year building the ornate monuments, only to set them alight and begin again.

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German carnival strongholds of Duesseldorf, Cologne celebrate Rose Monday

Revellers braved rain and wind to celebrate Rose Monday in the German carnival strongholds of Cologne and Duesseldorf on Monday using comedy to shine a light on political issues that have dominated the news over the last year.

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Riverboat piligrimage heralds arrival of spring in western Japan

The journey along Kumano-gawa River echoes pilgrimages of emperors and samurais.

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Mardi Gras, Australian style

More than 300,000 revellers on Saturday descended onto Sydney's iconic Oxford Street for the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.

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Basque carnival starts

Hundreds of people are flocking to the Basque Country in Spain for the annual carnival

Germany

Watch: Cologne carnival kicks off 6 days of uninterrupted partying

Cologne carnival kicks off 6 days of uninterrupted partying

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Buddhist parade brings in the crowds in Sri Lanka's capital

Drummers, traditional dancers and decorated elephants took part in the event.

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Lanterns light up sky of ancient Chinese city

Thousands of lanterns illuminated the skies of China's ancient city of Kaifeng on Monday, as it held the International Lantern Festival amid Lunar New Year celebrations.

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Sharjah and its spellbinding Light Festival

In partnership with Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority

From worldclass pyrotechnics to fairytale characters parading along a lagoon, Euronews discovers a host of spellbinding spectacles during the 9th edition of the Sharjah Light Festival.

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Thousands line streets of Viareggio to see satirical floats

Thousands of people lined the streets of Viareggio on Saturday to watch a parade of satirical floats as part of the Italian city's annual carnival.

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Estonia holds annual sauna marathon

The rules of the game are simple: teams are giving a map of all the participating saunas and have to spend at least three minutes in each one as well as nominate a team-member to jump into an ice hole at each stop

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Festival lights up Danish capital Copenhagen

In one of the darkest months of the year, the 24-day Copenhagen Light Festival aims to brighten up the mood in the Danish capital.

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The annual Sapporo snow festival kicks off

Visitors are flocking to the city of Sapporo on Japan`s northern island of Hokkaido to see snow and ice sculptures as the annual snow festival kicks off.

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Chinese revellers welcome Spring Festival with charcoal-spinning

Fire dancers in China's northern city of Taiyuan wowed crowds with their traditional charcoal-spinning performances.

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Pernik celebrates the 28th Surva festival

Every winter, folklore groups from across Bulgaria take part in the two-day Surva festival in the city of Pernik.

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From pariah to demi-god: transgender leader a star at Indian festival

Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, an Indian transgender activist and a former reality TV star, is busy blessing a constant stream of pilgrims at India's Kumbh Mela, a huge religious festival at the confluence of the holy Ganges and Yamuna rivers.

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Horses jump bonfires at Spanish festival's 'purification ceremony'

Over a hundred horses jumped through bonfires in a "purification ceremony" on Wednesday during the Spanish festival of "Las Luminarias" in a village northwest of Madrid.

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Members of India's transgender community take first Kumbh Mela swim

For decades Laxmi Narayan Tripathi has fought India's conservative laws and beliefs to bring the transgender community equal with the rest of society, and now she has notched up a new milestone.