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A man dressed as Santa Claus walks with children through the streets of Havana on December 21, 2023. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP)
The Great Belt Bridge seen from Zealand as waves crashes ashore, on December 22, 2023. – The Great Belt Bridge was closed earlier in the day in connection with storm Pia and a traffic accident. (Photo by Thomas Traasdahl / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP)Displaced people fleeing from al-Jazirah state arrive in Gedaref in the east of war-torn Sudan on December 22, 2023. – The brutal conflict broke out in mid-April 2023 between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), killing more than 12,000 people and displacing millions. (Photo by AFP)Palestinians help a relative injured following Israeli bombardment walk out of hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on December 20, 2023, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by AFP)Coordinator of the Del Carmen Alto Museum, Maria Gabriela Mena, holds a figure depicting a biblical and everyday scene from Colonial Quito, during the assembly of the manger at the Del Carmen Alto Museum in Quito, on December 14, 2023. – A hunchback suffering from goiter, a decapitated child in the hands of a soldier, a woman with a bloody face and other unusual images make up a peculiar manger in Quito, preserved for three centuries in a cloister monastery. (Photo by Cristina Vega RHOR / AFP)Well wishers light candles as people mourn at a makeshift memorial for the victims outside the Charles University in central Prague, on December 22, 2023, as police investigators kept working on the campus the day after a deadly mass shooting. – The gunman who opened fire at Prague’s Charles University killed 13 people and then himself, Czech authorities said, revising the toll from 14 victims. Czech authorities sought a motive in the a student’s gun attack at the Charles University’s Faculty of Arts. The gunman, a 24-year-old student, died during the attack on December 21, 2023. (Photo by Michal Cizek / AFP)Palestinians transport shrouded bodies of people killed following Israeli bombardment, at a hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on December 20, 2023, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by AFP)Protesters hold a banner during a solidarity march for the defence of immigrants against France’s new immigration law at Republique Square, in Paris, on December 22, 2023. – Following 18 months of wrangling over one of the French Government’s flagship reforms of Macron’s second term, both chambers of parliament backed the controversial legislation on December 19, 2023 as the government sought to quell a party revolt over the passing of the tough new immigration legislation. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)A well wisher lights a candle as people mourn at a makeshift memorial for the victims outside the Charles University in central Prague, on December 22, 2023, as police investigators kept working on the campus the day after a deadly mass shooting. – The gunman who opened fire at Prague’s Charles University killed 13 people and then himself, Czech authorities said, revising the toll from 14 victims. Czech authorities sought a motive in the a student’s gun attack at the Charles University’s Faculty of Arts. The gunman, a 24-year-old student, died during the attack on December 21, 2023. (Photo by Michal Cizek / AFP)A surfer rides a wave as a Fire and Rescue helicopter collects water in the sea to water bomb a line of wildfire above the residential neighborhood of Glencairn, near Simon’s Town, on December 22, 2023. (Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP)An Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle flies over the northern Gaza Strip near the border with southern Israel on December 22, 2023 amid continuing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)Smoke billows from the Simon’s town area on December 22, 2023. (Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP)Palestinians transport shrouded bodies of people killed following Israeli bombardment, at a hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on December 20, 2023, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by AFP)People are silhouetted against the setting sun at a beach in Banda Aceh on December 22, 2023. (Photo by Chaideer MAHYUDDIN / AFP)
