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Copenhagen's three-week light festival attracts artists from all over the world. Installations and pop-up shows are created throughout the Danish capital.

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A masked festival has been held in Bulgaria to mark the end of winter. People gathered in vibrant costumes to ward off evil at the Surva festival.

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Towering ice sculptures and fireworks feature once again as China kicks off its annual ice festival in the northern city of Harbin

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Several cars destroyed by the war in Ukraine are on display at the Lux Light Festival in Helsinki, Finland.

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Watch: Bahrain festival season opens celebrating art, food, and music

The festival took place at the Bahrain Fort built over 5,000 years ago.

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Pomegranates are the stars in Tehran for the fruits' festival

The pomegranate festival organised with the slogan "one hundred rubies" continues in Tehran, the capital of Iran. The 11th Pomegranate Festival, which started on 19 November, can be visited between 16.00-21.00 until 2 December.

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The €138m eight-month festival attracted only three million visitors in-person and 15 million online, way short of the 66 million organisers had hoped for.

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The southern Indian state boasts some 1,000 festivals, most of which are centuries old.

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People gathered in the hills of central Myanmar to enjoy the annual Tazaungdaing light festival that marks the end of the rainy season in a fiery nighttime display of exploding hot air balloons.

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