Thousands of police, including extra firearms officers, are on duty for New Year’s Eve celebrations in central London amid heightened security in Europe’s capital cities.
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When the lighted ball drops at midnight to usher in 2016, it will hover over an area patrolled by 6,000 NY police officers, and thousands of others will be scattered across the Big Apple, officials said. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told a French publication that France needs its symbolic passage into the new year, to “send a signal to the world” as it continues to recover from the attacks.
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Vienna police said Saturday that it had received a warning from an unnamed, “friendly” intelligence service that terrorist attacks were possible in the days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve in multiple European cities, but did not name which had been mentioned.
Celebrations away from the palm-fringed beaches will be muted, however, as people remember nearly 4,000 victims of the epidemic.
Standing nearby, Stuart O’Donnell, a British intensive care nurse who works in Dubai, said he was anxious for those inside the building as it was in a prime location to watch the fireworks display.
Fireworks explode in front of Malaysia’s landmark building, Petronas Twin Towers, during the New Year’s Eve celebration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Jan. 1, 2016.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman lamented the prospect that fear might keep people from celebrating New Year’s Eve, or any event. Brussels was home to four of the radical Islamic attackers who killed 130 people in Paris on November 13.
In Berlin, police presence is at its largest for New Year celebrations, according to Deutsche Welle.
NY was also under heavy guard as a million people were awaited.
As many as 75,000 revellers, from more than 80 countries, are expected to attend a street party in the city.
The last to ring in new year 2016 will be islands like Baker Island and Howard Island – at a time when it is evening in India and Day 1 of the new year is already over for many nations.
And a number of other cities around the world have been put on high alert or called up additional police officers, including Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur and New Delhi, where police and anti-terror squads have conducted mock terror drills this week.
New Zealand and Australia then set the tone with spectacular celebrations.
Turkish authorities said their festivities would go ahead as planned, despite detaining two suspected Islamic State militants believed to be planning suicide bombings. Thousands of people, including North Korean refugees, are expected to gather at a town near the border with rival North Korea to watch one of the ceremonies and wish for peaceful Korean unification.
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In Britain, Scotland Yard said there would be about 3,000 police officers across central London in what was reported to be an unprecedented anti-terror security effort.
