World in focus - best photos for December 1, 2020

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

A giant Christmas tree stands at the Galeries Lafayette department store where lights were switched on for the festive season in Paris, France. Reuters

Workers prepare to arrange lanterns on a tree to celebrate the upcoming New Year at the Jogyesa Buddhist temple in Seoul, South Korea. AP Photo

A child affected by tropical storms Eta and Iota eats on the side of a street in La Guadalupe, Honduras. EPA

Mitree Chitinunda, a former ultra-royalist who once got a haircut of King Maha Vajiralongkorn's portrait on the back of his head with words "Long Live the King" last year, changes his haircut after the protests emerged, to the three-fingers salute, a symbol of anti-government protest that is demanding curb for monarchy's power in Bangkok, Thailand. Reuters

Children play inside a polling station during the second phase of the District Development Council and Panchayat by-elections in Najan Sumbal area of Bandipora district. AFP

Kids bathe next to a destroyed house in Haulover in the Northern Caribbean Autonomous Region, Nicaragua. AFP

A storm moves up the East Coast near Wollongong, Australia. EPA

Papuan activists attend a protest in Surabaya to mark the Free Papua Organization anniversary. AFP

Newly arrived Asian elephant Kaavan, left, touches trunks with another elephant in his new enclosure at the Kulen Prom Tep Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey province. AFP

Mount Semeru spews volcanic materials during an eruption in Lumajang, East Java, Indonesia. EPA

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