Marina Bay in Singapore had tens of thousands of floating “whishing spheres”, each wish representing a belief that the New Year will bring new possibilities.
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Around 23,000 tonnes of fireworks were used in the show, Sky News reported.
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The precautions reflected a world rattled by the November attacks in Paris, which left 130 people dead, as well as the December killing of 14 people at an office party in San Bernardino, Calif. The Paris attacks are believed to have been directed by the Islamic State, while the group has claimed it inspired the couple behind the California killings.
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Among the 44 floats are works in homage to the City of Hope, whose float was built by and will feature athlete cancer survivors. A New Year’s Day no-fly zone over the parade and the Rose Bowl has been imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The fireworks display will be aired over BBC1 starting at 8:30 p.m. from the Sydney Opera House.
More than 1 million people clung to vantage points on Sydney Harbour to watch Australia’s largest New Year’s Eve fireworks.
Kraus said police had indications that the terror threat was connected to Islamist extremists, but he could not immediately give any further details.
But shortly before the clocks turned midnight, police in Munich urged people to avoid train stations due to an “imminent threat”.
Metropolitan Police spokeswoman Superintendent Jo Edwards said: “Around 3,000 officers will be on duty as part of our policing operation for the central London fireworks display, to play our part in ensuring that people see in 2016 safely”.
“The people of Paris and France need this symbolic passage into the New Year”, said Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo.
“It was the classic thing where you would expect people to let women and children off first, but no, there was people shoving each other down the stairs and climbing over each other”, he said.
In the United Arab Emirate of Dubai, a fire broke out at the five-star Address hotel about two hours before a massive fireworks display at the nearby Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building.
But up to a million revelers were expected at Berlin’s annual New Year’s Eve party at landmark Brandenburg Gate.
As one of the world’s first cities to celebrate the New Year, Sydney’s fantastical New Year’s Eve lightshow is renowned around the world.
Major celebrations and a giant fireworks display are expected in London later tonight despite a terror threat that is listed as “severe”.
Fifteen thousand fireworks are set and ready to go for the countdown to 2016.
More than two million people are believed to have converged on the beach.
This year’s festivities will were being attended by almost 6,000 police officers, including members of a specialized counterterrorism unit.
Officials in Las Vegas have urged party-goers to leave bags, backpacks and buggies at home to help security.
Although officials won’t release the number of officers and guards hired, it will be in the hundreds.
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Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman lamented the prospect that fear might keep people from celebrating New Year’s Eve. “Even though I tell her to look at how pretty the fireworks are, she becomes scared”.
