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Transcript
00:00The preparations for the New Year's Eve ball drop are ongoing in New York Times Square in America.
00:07And other news, in other countries, the UV Express is about to pass overseas.
00:155, 4, 3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!
00:21Oh, it's just a practice.
00:23They are preparing for the celebration of the New Year in Times Square in New York in America.
00:28More than a kilo of confetti will be thrown from the stage
00:32and neighboring houses to the audience for the ball drop on New Year's Eve.
00:37The confetti will also include the wishes of residents and tourists for the year 2025.
00:43According to some of them, they want to leave behind negative thoughts,
00:48unstable jobs, bad relationships, and being lazy.
00:53The New Year's Eve ball will be used.
00:56It has 12 sticks in diameter and weighs more than 5 kilos.
01:00It has 2,688 crystal triangles of different sizes.
01:08In Peru, the participants exchanged punches in the two-day Takanakuy Festival
01:12that started on Christmas Day in Chumbivilcas Province.
01:17Takanakuy means to hurt or hit each other.
01:20This is the year of the festival where people solve their problems one by one
01:25to strengthen their relationship.
01:27Traditional costumes are worn in the kickboxing style of the festival.
01:32It usually ends in the following sumali.
01:39In Brazil, many people gather at the iconic Copacabana Beach
01:43to pay tribute to the Afro-Brazilian sea goddess, Yemanja.
01:47It is the first year of this tradition that is held before the New Year.
01:51It is full of songs and dances of celebration.
01:54They also offer flowers, meat, alcoholic drinks, and beauty products
01:58as gifts to the sea goddess.
02:00They believe that they will also receive blessings.
02:03May the people of the sea goddess have peace for the year 2025.
02:07This is the first news.
02:08I'm Bam Alengre for GMA Integrated News.
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