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Millions of people around the world have welcomed in the year 2016 on high security alert, with train stations in Germany evacuated over an "imminent threat" and fireworks canceled in Paris and Brussels, while huge fires ripped through a Dubai hotel and destroyed 1,000 homes in the Philippines.

Only hours before the New Year celebration in Germany, police shut down two main train stations in the city of Munich after receiving "very concrete information" from the intelligence service of a friendly country that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group had planned to carry out "suicide attacks" in the southern city on New Year's Eve.