World in focus - best photos for December 11, 2020

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

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  Navy soldiers warm up before taking part in a rehearsal for upcoming India's Republic Day parade near India Gate in New Delhi. AFP

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  Austria's Philipp Aschenwald jumps during the second trial round of the Men Flying Hill Individual World event of FIS Ski Flying World Championship in Planica. AFP

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  Danish climber Mikkel Frederiksen are on the 85m long climbing wall at the outdoor structure CopenHill in Copenhagen on December 6, 2020. CopenHill is an urban mountain placed on top af a state-of-the-art waste-to energy plant, ARC, which is one of the most unique architectural designs in the world. The plant produces environmental-friendly energy with the newest technology by burning waste and turning the exhaust into energy which yearly provides the city of Copenhagen with electricity for 30,000 households and central heating for 72,000 households. The structure has a ski hill, a hiking track and a climbing wall. / AFP / Olivier MORIN

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  A homeless man, name given Rafael, wears a Santa Claus outfit as he prepares to have dinner by the side of a road, in Milan, Italy. AP Photo

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  A body is carried on an firetruck aerial ladder after it was found in a warehouse where up to 200 migrants lived in squalid conditions, in Badalona, near Barcelona, a day after a fire broke killing at least two people and injuring 17. AFP

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  A winter swimming enthusiast is seen after taking a swim in the partially frozen Neva river at sunset in central Saint Petersburg. AFP

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  A pro-democracy protester takes part in a rally to denounce the use of the lese majeste law, under section 112 of the penal code, in Bangkok. AFP

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  Workers are seen on top of an under-construction bridge in Vadodara, Gujarat. AFP

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  People stand in the "Mill", a 20m long natural ice cave created by melted water accumulated during the summer and by a siphon effect leaves in the autumn giving way to an ice cathedral, at the Glacier 3000 ski resort in Les Diablerets, Switzerland. REUTERS

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  Haitians demonstrate in Port-au-Prince, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, demanding their right to live in the face of an upsurge in kidnappings perpetrated by gangs. AFP

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  An aerial view shows the Christmas tree farm of farmer Heiko Tacke in Halver, western Germany. AFP

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  An African penguin swims in a large overhanging water tank called "Penguin in the sky" at Sunshine Aquarium in Tokyo. AFP

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