Official New Year’s celebrations in Belgium were also canceled.
Advertisement
Hillary’s old emails classified: US govt
The photo of Clinton looking at her phone was taken while she was on a flight to Tripoli, Libya, in October 2011. Thursday’s dump – coming the afternoon of New Year’s Eve – is the seventh of eight court-ordered releases.
Participants get ready before taking part in the London New Year’s Day Parade.
FSU QB Maguire returns after injury scare in Peach Bowl
Later in the third quarter, Stewart added another interception when Maguire tried a deep pass for Whitfield between two defenders. Dalvin Cook hasn’t gotten the touches he needs, but he isn’t getting the space to run he needs to warrant those touches.
Simultaneous fireworks displays erupted along Sydney’s famed harbor, where people crowded onto balconies, into waterside parks and onto boats as they jockeyed for the best view, clinking glasses and whooping with joy as the first pyrotechnics exploded. The French are still recovering from the deadly November terror attacks.
Chicago Police Will Double Number Of Tasers, Get De-Escalation Training
About 20 people turned out Tuesday afternoon, the same day Emanuel was scheduled to return home from a vacation to Cuba. On Tuesday night, a small group of protesters gathered at Emanuel’s house, calling for his removal.
USA authorities said they were monitoring overseas communications to detect any threats, pledging to be vigilant following the recent terror attacks in San Bernardino, California and Paris.
The arrival of the New Year was greeted by silence in Moscow as the fireworks display was five minutes late.
(160101) – DUBAI, Jan. 1, 2016 (Xinhua) – Fireworks explode as smoke billows from the nearby Address Downtown Hotel which caught on fire hours earlier, near the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, on December 31, 2015.
Last year, more than 13million people tuned in to watch the BBC’s annual fireworks display. Traditionally Filipinos welcome the New Year with firecrackers, fireworks, midnight snacks known as “media noche” and nearly anything to make the loudest noise possible.
Security was increased in Malaysia’s biggest city, Kuala Lumpur, where fireworks rang in the New Year at a historical square as well as at the Petronas Twin Towers, one of the world’s tallest towers.
German police warned people to stay away from two of Munich’s railway stations and avoid large gatherings after “indications that a terror attack” was being planned by terrorists in the southern German city.
Lutchman, who was arrested a day earlier, has a criminal record dating back almost a decade and served about five years in prison for robbery, federal officials said.
Photographers prepare to take photos of fireworks at the Taipei 101 skyscraper on New Year’s Eve in Taipei, Taiwan.
Russian Federation is the first major European city to welcome 2016, held a fireworks display over Red Square in Moscow.
“Normally I go out to the bars on the Asian side of Istanbul but this year, because of the danger of ISIS (Islamic State), I will spend New Year’s Eve in my home”, said Seyda Yilmaz, a 26-year old IT expert.
Meanwhile in Edinburgh, 75,000 people saw in the New Year at the Scottish capital’s Hogmanay street party, which draws revellers from around the world.
Paris, still reeling from the November 13 slaughter of 130 people, has also canceled its main fireworks display on the Champs Elysees avenue.
The men’s lawyers said their full names are Said Saouti and Mohammed Karay, whose arrests were announced Tuesday following police raids in and around Brussels and the eastern city of Liege.
Rio de Janeiro kicked off its Olympic year with a fiesta on Copacabana Beach attended by more than 2 million people, according to police estimates.
About 6000 uniformed and undercover police officers, 500 more than previous year, were expected to flood the area, the force bolstered by mounted patrols, bomb-sniffing dogs, radiation detectors and hundreds of surveillance cameras.
Advertisement
In New York City, despite a pledge of tight security for Times Square, another million people are expected to turn out to see the ball descend. “Happy New Year!” he said in front of a British flag, before spinning over backwards.
