Annual festivities and fireworks in Brussels were canceled as the Belgian capital – home to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the European Union – remains on high alert.
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The mayor’s fireworks display is ticketed for the second year and has sold out.
New Year eve saw some spectacular display of fireworks around the world. “This New Year’s Eve I am going to bop and party till the cock crows”, stated 35-yr-previous Franklyn Smith.
Meanwhile, thousands of police officers, some armed with long guns, radiation detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs, will be guarding the massive New Year’s celebration in New York City’s Times Square.
Security was beefed up in Malaysia’s biggest city, Kuala Lumpur, where fireworks greeted the new year at a historic square and at the Petronas Twin Towers, one of the world’s tallest buildings.
Two railway stations in the Bavarian city were evacuated after police were tipped off by a foreign intelligence service that Islamic State was planning attacks with up to seven suicide bombers, according to German media.
On Wednesday, Turkish police detained two suspected Islamic State members they believe to have been plotting New Year’s Eve suicide attacks in the capital Ankara, where less than three months ago a double suicide bombing killed more than 100 people.
Newcastle’s Winter Carnival Parade returns to ring in the New Year, culminating in a fireworks finale.
An army of council workers has swept the streets of London to clear up the mess left behind by the tens of thousands who flocked to the banks of the Thames to see in the New Year.
In China an official celebration was planned near Beijing’s Forbidden City, which will include performances and fireworks.
Belgian police were holding five people over an alleged New Year attack plot in Brussels, as well as arresting a 10th suspect over the Paris attacks.
Horns blared and crowds cheered as the tower was lit up with fireworks, with colours shifting from green to red to white.
Pakistanis celebrated the new year in Karachi with many expressing their hopes for a more peaceful year ahead.
And US officers stated that they had arrested and charged a 25-yr-previous American Muslim convert over an alleged try and launch a New Year’s Eve assault in upstate NY within the identify of the Islamic State group.An estimated two million individuals watched fireworks over the ocean at at Copacabana seashore in Rio de Janeiro which can later this yr host the Olympics.
Revellers during the Hogmanay New Year celebrations in Edinburgh.
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People, basically the youths had geared up for their own unique ways to welcome and celebrate the New Year by organising fun fiestas at cultural theatres thereby creating their own platforms to exhibit their talents with the advent of another fresh year. The New Year’s Eve fireworks display and all official events were canceled in the Belgium’s capital due to threats of an extremist attack.
