A look at the best photos from around the world today.
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A Syrian child, who fled with his family from rebel-held areas in the city of Aleppo, reacts as he holds a sandwich on December 1, 2016, at a shelter in the neighbourhood of Jibrin, east of Aleppo. Youssef Karwashan / Agence France-Presse -
Indonesian Muslims attend a rally on December 2, 2016, calling for the arrest of Jakarta’s Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, who is accused of insulting the Quran. Darren Whiteside / Reuters -
The North Korean Korean People’s Army artillery units go through a drill in Pyongyang on December 2, 2016. KCNA / via Reuters -
An burqa-clad woman carries containers of milk over her shoulder to sell in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan on December 2, 2016. Farshad Usyan / Agence France-Presse -
Smoke rises from the chimneys as the tower of the Saint Michel church is seen in the distance in the mist-covered southwestern French city of Bordeaux on December 2, 2016, where temperatures are around the freezing point. Georges Gobet /Agence France-Presse -
Collection care manager Rob Ewart poses with some of the tapes in the BFI film archive on December 1, 2016, in Berkhamsted, England. The British Film Institute has announced that, as part of a five-year strategy for 2017-2022, thousands of British TV programmes will be digitised for future generations. With many programmes being unseen since broadcast, episodes of classic children’s shows such as Basil Brush and Tiswas are set to be restored. Leon Neal / Getty Images -
Anaheim Ducks’ Shea Theodore, Ryan Kesler, Andrew Cogliano, Kevin Bieksa and Jakob Silfverberg, of Sweden, from left, celebrate Cogliano’s goal against the Vancouver Canucks during the third period of an NHL hockey game on December 1, 2016, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press via AP -
Native American activists, JP Pacodas, left, Patty Sam Porter and Virginia Redstar of the Colville tribe in Washington state discuss their journey on December 1, 2016 outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota, after travelling from the headwaters of the Missouri River in a dugout canoe to join activists at Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. Native Americans and activists from around the country have been gathering at the camp for several months trying to halt the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. The proposed 1,172-mile-long pipeline would transport oil from the North Dakota Bakken region through South Dakota, Iowa and into Illinois. Scott Olson / Getty Images / Agence France-Presse -
Passengers are seen through the windows of a bus during heavy rain on December 1, 2016, in the Turkish Cypriot breakaway area of the divided capital of Nicosi, Cyprus. Petros Karadjias / Associated Press -
Roberto D’Machi, a relative of Nilson Junior Folle, one of the players of Brazilian football team Chapecoense Real killed in a plane crash in the Colombian mountains, mourns next to his coffin at the San Vicente mortuary in Medellin on December 1, 2016. The pilot of a charter plane carrying the Brazilian football team Chapecoense Real radioed frantically that he was out of fuel minutes before slamming into a hillside near Medellin with 77 people on board, an audio recording revealed. Luis Acosta / Agence France-Presse
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