New Year's Day
Belgrade streets still decorated "48 days after New Year's"
The opposition SDS party on Wednesday criticized the city authorities in Belgrade for not removing decorative lights installed for New Year's.
The party said that Belgrade "continues to be decorated even 48 days after the holiday."
Seven Sacred Species
At sundown yesterday it was once again the start of the New Year. The sun dawn marked the beginning of the one-day festival of Tu BiShvat, otherwise known as the New Year of Trees, one of the four Jewish celebrations that are considered as the New Year. Four New Years in a single year, now that really sounds confusing!
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France will continue to support Greece, French ambassador says
French Ambassador to Greece Christophe Chantepy sent a message of support and hope that Greece will exit the crisis in 2016, at an event held on Tuesday at the ambassador’s residence to celebrate the New Year.
Number of women assaulted in Cologne reached 400
Cologne police have said that the number of women claiming that they were assaulted on New Year’s Eve has risen to 379 with half of the cases reported involving crimes of a sexual nature.
Police said on Saturday that the number of cases reported to them had reached 379 and about 40 % of which involved allegations of sexual offences.
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Germany shocked by mass sexual assaults on women in Cologne (pics+vid)
About 90 women have reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested at New Year celebrations outside Cologne’s cathedral.
The police said the attackers were young, mostly drunk, men, describing the attacks as ‘a new dimension in crime’, as Reuters reports.
Hurriyet: ISIS fighters planning Munich attack entered EU through Greece
Germany obtained information on possible terrorist attacks in Munich on New Year’s Eve from the Turkish security service, according to the newspaper Hurriyet.
Apart from Germany, Turkish officials had also informed France, Austria, Italy and Belgium about the possibility of terrorist attacks, Hurriyet says in an article.
Turkey increases bridge, highway tolls 16 pct in 2016
Bridge and highway toll prices in Turkey have been added to the new year's price hikes for the first time since 2012, with an increase of 16 percent. The new prices were effective as of Jan. 3.
In Photos: Cities across the world celebrate New Year
The world has celebrated the arrival of a new year with festivities and fireworks as people gathered in squares to bid farewell to 2015
PM: Bulgaria Maintained Stability Despite Last Year's Global Challenges
In a Facebook publication on the occasion of the new year, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov noted that Bulgaria had managed to maintain stability despite the dynamic events taking place around the world in 2015.
Borisov identified 2015 as a year full of work and new challenges, when many projects had been fulfilled and the foundations for the long-awaited reforms had been laid.
Unusual New Year’s traditions from around the world
Most people celebrate the arrival of the new year gathered with friends and family while drinking some champagne and eat delicious food or watching spectacular firework shows in the central squares of their cities.