Paris: Shaken by a year of militant attacks, Europeans will ring in 2016 in subdued fashion, with soldiers on the streets of Paris, a heightened police presence at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and silence across the vast cobbled emptiness of Moscow's Red Square. Bookended by deadly Islamist assaults on Paris, the departing year limped to a close with security forces on raised alert in many capitals and Belgian authorities announcing a series of terrorism-related arrests. The plot to carry out an attack on Brussels on New Year's Eve led to the complete cancellation of the city's traditional December 31 fireworks display. In Russia, officials said the closure of Red...
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