On Dec. 26, Vienna police said a “friendly” intelligence service had warned European capitals of the possibility of a shooting or bomb attack before New Year, prompting police across the continent to increase security measures.
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Britain sees in 2016 with massive London police presence
In Bangkok, thousands of police were present as revelers rang in 2016 at the site of a deadly bombing that occurred in October. Up to 5,000 police officers were in the area, with explosive ordnance disposal experts sweeping the area ahead of time.
In Britain, Scotland Yard said around 3,000 officers were deployed across central London in what was reported to be an unprecedented anti-terror security effort.
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Fire engulfed the luxury building near the world’s tallest skyscraper in Dubai on Thursday as tens of thousands of people were gathering at its base for one of the world’s largest New Year’s fireworks displays.
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But shortly before the clocks turned midnight, police in Munich urged people to avoid train stations due to an “imminent threat”.
Fireworks at the London Eye herald the arrival of 2016.
At the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, organisers expect more than one million people to gather to watch a fireworks display at midnight.
AFP PHOTO / MATTHIEU ALEXANDREMATTHIEU ALEXANDRE/AFP/Getty Images French police cars are parked along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées boulevard in Paris on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2015.
Superintendent Jo Edwards said she wanted the 100,000 attendees “to be reassured, not frightened by the number of police officers they see”. Crowds thronged to vantage points to see the displays which are expected to draw one million people, ahead of the chimes of midnight moving across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and finally the Americas.
Major celebrations and a giant fireworks display are expected in London later tonight despite a terror threat that is listed as “severe”.
In Belgium’s capital, tourists are enjoying New Year festivities, despite authorities being on alert after thwarting what they say was a holiday terror plot.
Despite the never-ending specter of terror attacks around the globe and a fire that raged in a mega-high-rise Dubai hotel, the world’s revelers drank, cheered and partied their way toward 2016 in New Year’s celebrations from Sydney to Saskatchewan.
An ex-con seeking to prove he was worthy of joining the Islamic State group planned to carry out a New Year’s Eve attack at an upstate NY bar using a machete and knives provided by an FBI informant, federal authorities announced Thursday. Brazil’s most popular New Year’s Eve show was illuminated by 24 tons of fireworks fired for almost 16 minutes. Police used two monitoring trucks to follow suspicious movements during the party. Up here we work on Greenwich Mean Time, which means we will be celebrating at the same time as everybody else in the UK.
Others were heartened by the massive security presence for the party to send off 2015 that featured musical acts by Carrie Underwood, Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato and temperatures that, to the relief of the bundled-up spectators, stayed well above freezing.
This year’s festivities were attended by almost 6,000 police officers, including members of a specialized counterterrorism unit.
The government this year staged celebrations in front of the pyramids near the Egyptian capital, with ambassadors, artists and intellectuals all invited.
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