![]() ![]() “I don’t like the way politics is going,” said Daniel Brandt. In Berlin the mood was more somber than celebratory. Still, tourists and Brazilians enjoyed a festival of sounds, including two sets of drums from popular samba schools.įireworks light the sky above the Quadriga at the Brandenburg Gate shortly after midnight in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Jan. The event was more modest than last year due to the city’s recession. Twelve minutes of fireworks amazed many of the more than 860,000 tourists who traveled to Rio for the party. More than 2 million people have welcomed 2017 at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach. “2016 affected everyone badly,” she said. Neslihan Dogruol, a restaurant owner in a chic Istanbul neighborhood, said she hopes for peace in 2017 following a year filled with “unrest and death.” In Istanbul, 17,000 police officers were on duty, some camouflaged as street vendors.Īnkara and Istanbul have been targeted by several attacks in 2016 carried out by the Islamic State group or Kurdish rebels, killing more than 180 people. Security measures had been heightened in major Turkish cities, with police barring traffic leading up to key squares in Istanbul and the capital, Ankara. Istanbul’s governor said at least 35 people were killed and 40 others were wounded. New Year’s celebrations turned deadly when an armed assailant believed to have been dressed as Santa Claus opened fire at a nightclub in Istanbul, killing dozens of people. Wilder was also honored as the bridge lit up in a rainbow of colors while a song from Wilder’s famed film “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” played. The glittering display over Sydney’s famed harbor and bridge featured Saturn and star-shaped fireworks set to “Space Oddity,” the classic song by Bowie - one of the seemingly endless parade of beloved entertainers who died in 2016. Sydney sent up a dazzling tribute to 2016’s fallen icons with a New Year’s Eve fireworks display honoring the late singer David Bowie and late actor Gene Wilder, becoming the first major city to bid a bittersweet adieu to a turbulent year. Baltimore Sun eNewspaper Home Page Close Menuįireworks explode around the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as New Year’s celebrations get underway in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Dec. ![]()
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