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Countries in the South Pacific Ocean are the first to ring in the New Year, with midnight in New Zealand striking 18 hours before the ball drop in Times Square in New York.

It was an hour before that the Pacific island nation of Kiribati celebrated the arrival of January 1 as the clock struck midnight. Since a change of clocks 20 years ago, in 1994, it has been the first nation in the world to enter the new year,