Best photos of December 25: A charitable haircut in Buenos Aires to 'Ice Floating' in Mongolia

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

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  People take part in a Christmas solidarity dinner called 'No Families Without Christmas', organized to support those affected by poverty, in front of the National Congress, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 24, 2025. REUTERS / Mariana Nedelcu

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  A girl lights a candle during a Christmas Eve service at the Syriac Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Iraq's southern city of Basra. AFP

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  Downtown Los Angeles in the heavy rain. A winter storm crossed California, forcing hundreds of evacuations while threatening flooding and travel delays throughout the Christmas period for much of the Golden State. AFP

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  Supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party join a rally in Dhaka to welcome acting chairman Tarique Rahman after his return from London following exile of 17 years. Reuters

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  The bodies of US Staff Sergeant Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar of Des Moines and Staff Sergeant William Nathaniel Howard of Marshalltown, Iowa National Guardsmen killed in an attack in the Syrian desert, are repatriated at Des Moines International Airport. AP

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  US President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Viktor Knavs, Mrs Trump's father, attend a Christmas Eve dinner in the ballroom of the President's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. Reuters

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  North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits the fabrication shed of an 8,700-tonne nuclear-powered guided missile submarine somewhere in North Korea. AFP

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  Tourists attired for the conditions float in the ice of the Erguna section of the Jirbugan River, experiencing 'ice floating' at minus 40°C in Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. AFP