• Members of the "Castellers de Villafranca" Human Tower team form a "castell" during an exhibition to celebrate the 75th anniversary of their foundation at the Zocalo square in Mexico City on November 21, 2023. (Photo by Rodrigo Oropeza / AFP)
    Members of the "Castellers de Villafranca" Human Tower team form a "castell" during an exhibition to celebrate the 75th anniversary of their foundation at the Zocalo square in Mexico City on November 21, 2023. (Photo by Rodrigo Oropeza / AFP)
  • Employees install Christmas decorations in central Frankfurt. AFP
    Employees install Christmas decorations in central Frankfurt. AFP
  • Voting at the Dutch parliamentary elections in Amsterdam. Reuters
    Voting at the Dutch parliamentary elections in Amsterdam. Reuters
  • The winter's first snowfall in Kyiv. Reuters
    The winter's first snowfall in Kyiv. Reuters
  • Workers battle to extinguish a fire in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Reuters
    Workers battle to extinguish a fire in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Reuters
  • Villagers gather around a well to draw water in Telamwadi, north-east of Mumbai, India. AP
    Villagers gather around a well to draw water in Telamwadi, north-east of Mumbai, India. AP
  • A man prays under the watchful eye of armed security in Bosaso, Somalia. EPA
    A man prays under the watchful eye of armed security in Bosaso, Somalia. EPA
  • Excavators’ boots are seen at a shelter house, during a rescue operation to free workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in Uttarkashi. AFP
    Excavators’ boots are seen at a shelter house, during a rescue operation to free workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in Uttarkashi. AFP
  • An elderly woman rests outside a home in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province, 38km north of Seoul. AFP
    An elderly woman rests outside a home in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province, 38km north of Seoul. AFP
  • Barracuda among a school of surgeonfish off the coast of Indonesia’s West Papua region. AFP
    Barracuda among a school of surgeonfish off the coast of Indonesia’s West Papua region. AFP
  • A funeral in Beirut for two journalists killed by an Israeli air strike on Tuesday in southern Lebanon. Reuters
    A funeral in Beirut for two journalists killed by an Israeli air strike on Tuesday in southern Lebanon. Reuters
  • Edema Bibi, 66, has her registration card checked during a door-to-door verification drive for undocumented Afghans, in a camp on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. Reuters
    Edema Bibi, 66, has her registration card checked during a door-to-door verification drive for undocumented Afghans, in a camp on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. Reuters
  • Newly arrived Rohingya refugees rest on a beach on Sabang island, Aceh province, Indonesia. AFP
    Newly arrived Rohingya refugees rest on a beach on Sabang island, Aceh province, Indonesia. AFP
  • Participants make kimchi at an event where US and South Korean soldiers joined residents to make food for members of the local community in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province. AFP
    Participants make kimchi at an event where US and South Korean soldiers joined residents to make food for members of the local community in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province. AFP

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