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.
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“Our policing plan remains under constant review and the public can expect to see additional police officers in central London, which includes an increased number of firearms officers”.
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However, it is learnt that Mr Salodia was never a favourite for the highest office of the state bureaucracy because of an ongoing anti corruption bureau case against him.
The UK and Ireland have welcomed in 2016, with spectacular firework displays lighting up the River Thames – and thousands enjoying Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh.
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But the video showed that the young man, although carrying a knife, was moving away from the officers when he was shot repeatedly. He’s come under increasing pressure since the November release of dashcam video showing the officer shooting McDonald.
It is not clear if any New Year’s Eve festivities will be cancelled.
Thousands of police officers, in New York City, have been deployed for traditional New Year’s celebrations in Times Square, which draws more than a million people. “But this year, because of the danger of ISIS (Islamic State), I will spend New Year’s Eve in my home”.
‘Across London my colleagues will be on duty providing our usual policing service.
“It doesn’t matter if they deploy me to Sinai or throw me in the western desert”, he said. This year is no different.
Revellers in central London during the New Year celebrations. Armed police stood guard in Beijing’s commercial districts.
Rochester, New York state, United States: Rochester city cancels its fireworks show and adds police officers to patrols after a man is accused of an alleged Islamic State-inspired plot to attack a restaurant and bar.
The festivities were cancelled by mayor Yvan Mayeur, who said on Wednesday evening it would have been impossible to administer adequate security checks to all of the 100,000 people expected to attend.
The French capital will also have 11,000 officers patrolling the city compared with 9,000 a year ago. Evidence that two of the November 13 attackers had entered the continent under cover of a wave of Middle Eastern refugees has heightened anxieties over the migration crisis and emboldened right-wing nationalist parties across the European Union who want a halt to the influx.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman lamented the prospect that fear might keep people from celebrating New Year’s Eve.
And fire engulfed a 63-storey skyscraper in Dubai on Thursday night, but with the block evacuated and only minor injuries reported authorities went ahead with a New Year’s fireworks display at the world’s tallest building a few hundred metres away.
Today, more than 8,500 performers representing 20 countries will take part in the annual New Year’s Day parade through London.
Ashley Watters, 18, a freshman at Temple University hailing from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, called the threat of terrorism “the elephant in the room”.
Additional security measures were also being taken in other major cities.
Superintendent Jo Edwards, of the Metropolitan Police, said their plans remained “under constant review” and were “purely precautionary and not as a result of any specific intelligence”. We’ve been policing at the threat level of severe for some time now, we are very experienced in London policing large-scale events.
As 2016 finally reaches the Americas, up to a million people are expected to converge on Times Square in NY, amid tight security, to watch the famous ball descend.
Elsewhere, New Zealand counted down the seconds to midnight with a giant digital clock on Auckland’s Sky Tower as it become the first nation with a sizeable population to welcome in 2016.
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At the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, organisers expect more than one million people to gather to watch a fireworks display at midnight. “After what our city has lived through, we have to send a signal to the world”.
