Up to 25,000 people had been expected to turn up for the festivities.In Australia, fireworks lit up Sydney harbour at midnight (13:00 GMT).
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Security is being heightened in major European cities ahead of the New Year celebrations, with officials wary of possible terror plots, the media reported on Thursday.
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Friends, fellow country musicians and fans rallied around Strickland and his family on social media , using #PrayersForCraig. Just before leaving for the trip, the late Morland tweeted an ominous message uncannily foreshadowing the subsequent events.
Authorities in the Belgian capital said a fireworks display and festivities that attracted 100,000 people a year ago would not go ahead after revealing the alleged jihadi plot. We’ve been policing at the threat level of severe for some time now, we are very experienced in London policing large-scale events.
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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.
“People who are in London tonight will probably see more police officers visible, including firearm officers, but that’s been the case since those awful attacks in Paris”.
Turkish police have detained two Islamic State suspects allegedly planning to stage attacks in the centre of the capital Ankara which is expected to be packed on New Year’s Eve.
Samoa was the first nation to see in 2016, with New Zealand the first nation with a sizeable population to celebrate the New Year.
In Paris, a New Year fireworks display has been abandoned, but the traditional gathering on the Champs-Elysees will take place amid tight security.
New York: Around 1 million people were expected to converge on New York City’s Times Square for the annual celebration.
Police in Italy have confiscated large quantities of illegal fireworks, including powerful devices nicknamed “Isis” after the terrorist network and “the Paris Bomb” after last month’s attacks on the French capital.
A 63-story luxury hotel was engulfed in flames even as a massive New Year’s fireworks display kicked off at the world’s tallest skyscraper nearby, while tens of thousands of people whistled and cheered at early Friday’s pyrotechnics.
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“The people of Paris and France need this symbolic passage into the New Year”.
140-w-37-(Sagar Meghani (SAH’-gur meh-GAH’-nee), AP national security correspondent, with sound of New Year celebration in Sydney, Australia and and NY police counterterror chief James Waters)-Terror fears form the backdrop as the world celebrates the new year.
The mayor’s fireworks display was ticketed for the second year and has sold out.
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Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said the “noble and decent” show will be aimed at “sending the world the message that Paris is standing, proud of its lifestyle and living together”.
