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1/40 29 December 2017

A New York apartment fire killed at least 12 people, including a baby, with four more critically injured. Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference from the scene that 'it is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in this city in at least a quarter century.'

Reuters

2/40 28 December 2017

Afghan women mourn inside a hospital compound after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan

Reuters

3/40 27 December 2017

Pope Francis greets newlyweds during his weekly general audience at Aula Paolo VI in The Vatican

AFP/Getty

4/40 26 December 2017

Rohingya refugees walk next to a pond in the early morning at the Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

Reuters

5/40 25 December 2017

Members of ice swimming club "Berliner Seehunde" (Berlin Seals) take a dip in the Orankesee lake in Berlin as part of their traditional Christmas ice swimming session, in Berlin, Germany

Reuters

6/40 24 December 2017

Mourners carry the body of 19-year-old Mohamed Sami al-Dahdouh, a Palestinian youth from Jabalia who was killed in clashes with Israeli forces east of Gaza City

AFP/Getty

7/40 23 December 2017

Policemen evacuate a baby after the Cagayan River swelled caused by heavy rains brought by Tropical Storm Tembin. People have died and others are missing as the storm struck the southern Philippines unleashing floods and landslides across a region of 20 million people.

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8/40 22 December 2017

Carles Puigdemont gives a thumbs up after the Catalonia Regional Election results

Rex

9/40 21 December 2017

A white SUV sits in the middle of the road as police and emergency personnel work at the scene of where it ran over pedestrians in Flinders Street in Melbourne.

AFP/Getty

10/40 20 December 2017

This combination of pictures shows Syrians covering one eye with their hands, in the rebel-held town of Douma, as part of a campaign in solidarity with a baby boy, Karim Abdallah, who lost an eye, as well as his mother, in government shelling on the nearby town of Hammouria.

AFP/Getty Images

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South Korean and U.S. Marines take part in a winter military drill in Pyeongchang, South Korea

REUTERS

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Belgian police officers stand guard outside the trial of Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspects in the 2015 Islamic State attacks in Paris, at a courthouse in Brussels, Belgium

Reuters

13/40 17 December 2017

Members of the International Space Station expedition 54/55, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (C), NASA astronaut Scott Tingle (R) and Norishige Kanai (L) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) during the send-off ceremony after checking their space suits before the launch of the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan

Reuters

14/40 16 December 2017

The former wife of the late South African President Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela (R), and the candidate for the African National Congress presidency and ex-wife of the incumbent South African president, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma greet each other as they attend the 54th ANC National Conference at the NASREC Expo Centre in Johannesburg on December 16, 2017. Thousands of delegates from South Africa's ANC party gathered on December 16, 2017 for a five-day meeting to elect their new leader in a divisive race seen as a pivotal moment in the country's post-apartheid history. he winner will be well placed to be the next president, but the ANC has lost much popularity since Nelson Mandela led it to power in the euphoric 1994 election that marked the end of white-minority rule.

AFP/Getty Images

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Palestinian protesters wave the national flag during clashes with Israeli security forces near the border fence with Israel, east of Gaza City as demonstrations continue over US President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital

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Hamas supporters take part in a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Islamist movement, in Gaza City

AFP/Getty Images

17/40 13 December 2017

Democratic candidate for US Senate Doug Jones thanks supporters as he holds his wife Louise's hand

AP

18/40 12 December 2017

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gather during the funeral ceremony of prominent spiritual leader Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, who died on Tuesday at the age of 104, in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel.

REUTERS

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A Palestinian protester kicks a flaming tire during clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Ramallah

AFP/Getty

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Demonstrators set US and Israeli flags on fire during a protest against Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, in Istanbul

REUTERS

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People gather to watch the bikers' procession during the funeral ceremony in tribute to late French singer Johnny Hallyday in Paris

EPA

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A Palestinian protester uses a sling to hurl stones towards Israeli troops

REUTERS

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Firefighters monitor a section of the Thomas Fire along the 101 freeway, north of Ventura, California.

Getty Images

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Palestinians burn an Israeli and a U.S. flag during a protest against the U.S. intention to move its embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize the city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City

Reuters

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Former Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili, flashes a victory sign after he was freed by his supporters in Kiev

REUTERS

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A man exercises in a park on a winter morning in Kolkata, India

REUTERS

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A supporter of Salvador Nasralla, presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, puts a balloon on the shield of a soldier in a protest while the country is still mired in chaos over a contested presidential election in Tegucigalpa, Honduras

REUTERS

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A man dressed as Santa Claus skiis down a mountain during the Saint Nicholas Day at the Alpine ski resort of Verbier, Switzerland

REUTERS

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A nurse takes blood for a HIV test for French President Emmanuel Macron as he visits the Delafontaine Hospital on World Aids Day

Reuters

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An activist pours gasoline as an effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte and U.S. President Donald Trump burns during a protest action against Duterte's plan to set up a Revolutionary Government, along a street in metro Manila, Philippines

Reuters

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South Korea's Hyunmoo II missile is fired during an exercise at an undefined location in the east coast of South Korea

The Defence Ministry/Yonhap via REUTERS

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People fall as police fire tear gas to try control the crowd trying to force their way into Kasarani Stadium to attend the inauguration of President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi

REUTERS

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Rohingya refugee Amina Khatun, 55, rests at the bank of the Naf river after crossing it on an improvised raft to reach Bangladesh, in Teknaf. Two of her sons were killed by gun fire when her village was attacked by Myanmar military, she says

Reuters

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Mount Agung volcano is seen spewing smoke and ash in Bali

EMILIO KUZMA-FLOYD/via REUTERS

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A Pakistani protester throws a tear gas shell back towards police during a clash in Islamabad

AFP/Getty Images

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Zimbabwe's former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa arrives ahead of his inauguration ceremony to be sworn in as president in Harare

Reuters

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Comrades of missing crew members express their grief after the Argentine Navy announced that the sound detected in the missing submarine search is consistent with an explosion

AFP

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Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic shouts at the presiding judge during the verdict hearing in his genocide trial, in The Hague, Netherlands

EPA

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People and soldiers celebrate after the resignation of Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe

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Israeli security forces carry away an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrator as they disperse a protest against Israeli army conscription in Bnei Brak, a city near Tel Aviv

AFP/Getty