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Many refugee shelters in Germany have banned firecrackers and pyrotechnics on New Year’s Eve for safety reasons and to protect asylum seekers from reliving...
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Brussels cancelled New Year’s Eve celebrations due to terrorism fears as Europe prepared to see in 2016 under tight security, while in Turkey police...
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Peru warned the public Tuesday against its popular New Year tradition of burning national hate figures in effigy, saying the smoke poses a cancer...
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A seven-month-old tiger fell to its death from a Chinese high-rise building, state media reported Wednesday, apparently frightened by Lunar New Year fireworks. A...
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Fireworks illuminated the skies across China as millions around Asia ushered in the Year of the Sheep on Thursday, kicking off festivities with an...
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The Year of the Horse brought catastrophic international air accidents, brutal terror attacks, global political upheaval, a resurgent Ebola virus and war — and,...
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As hundreds of millions in China flock home to celebrate the Year of the Sheep, the world’s biggest human migration places extraordinary pressure on...
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The bitter pain of bereavement turned to tears of anger Friday for relatives of the 36 killed in a New Year’s Eve crush in...
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko promised to defeat the “cruel-hearted foe” trying to break his former Soviet republic apart, in a traditional New Year’s message....
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A New Year’s stampede on Shanghai’s historic waterfront killed at least 36 revellers and injured dozens more, mostly women, as one police officer said...