Celebrations on New Year’s Eve are being scrapped in cities around the world as local authorities fear terror threats in cities from Sydney to Paris. Thousands of people looking to celebrate the start of 2026 have had their plans thwarted as reports of planned attacks have caused parties, fireworks and live events to be cancelled just days away from December 31.
Many events started to be axed after the FBI uncovered a planned bombing attack in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. Agents managed to arrest the four suspects during a planned rehearsal of their attack in the Mojave Desert just outside the city. Speaking at a press conference earlier in the month, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli showed surveillance footage taken by a drone, in which the suspects could be seen trying to assemble a bomb in the desert.
The attorney named the four suspects as Audrey Illeene Carroll, 30; Zachary Aaron Page, 32; Dante Gaffield, 24; and Tina Lai, 41, all from the Los Angeles area.
According to the Mirror US, despite the terror threat, Los Angeles has yet to officially cancel any of its New Year’s Eve events.
However, elsewhere around the world, the same cannot be said.




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