World in focus - best photos for December 23, 2019

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

View of the snow-covered mountains of Bcharre, in northern Lebanon, 1,450 metres above sea level. AFP

A competitor grooms his Shih-Tzu dog as they take part in the 52nd and 53rd All Breed Championship Pointed Dog Show in Amritsar. AFP

Mayor Charlie McMillan, the youngest mayor in America in the unincorporated Grimes County community of Whitehall, gets washed off in the sink after getting some of his breakfast on himself in Whitehall, Texas. The honorary mayoral role was auctioned off to the highest bidder during the Whitehall Volunteer Fire Department's annual BBQ fundraiser. This year, 7 month old Charlie McMillan was the highest bidder, thereby "electing" him the youngest mayor in America. AFP

A man checks the door of a house next to a dog staning on a footbridge over the flooded streets on the centre of Guipry-Messac, western France, after La Vilaine river bursts its banks due to heavy rains. AFP

Demonstrators gather at the Quddus Saheb Eidgah grounds to take part in a rally against India's new citizenship law in Bangalore. AFP

Rowers pull boats from Montemor-o-Velho Nautical Center, flooded and isolated due to rising water from the Mondego River, caused by rain and bad weather, in Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal. EPA

French President Emmanuel Macron (C) is greeted as he arrives to attend a ceremony to lay the first brick of the future Bouake market, which had burnt down 20 years prior in Bouake, as part of a three-day visit to West Africa. AFP

Huge waves break on the cliffs of the coast of Llanes, Spain. REUTERS

A Lebanese protester dressed in a Santa suit plays the trumpet in front of Mohammed al-Amin Mosque during ongoing anti-government protests in downtown Beirut. AFP

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