World in focus - best photos for December 3, 2019

Take a look at our pick of the images from around the world during the past 24 hours

An eruption of Volcan de Fuego, or Chi Q'aq, volcano as seen from the campsite of Acatenango volcano in Acatenango, Guatemala. EPA

A worker cuts fir trees for the Christmas season in La Petite-Pierre, northeastern France. AFP

Thai tour guide points at a map of Bangkok at the Patpong Museum in Bangkok, Thailand. EPA

A labourer uses a piece of cloth as a mask to avoid dust while working at a cotton gin workshop in Peshawar, Pakistan. Reuters

Chandler Moore, 7, is struck off his surfboard by what looks like a black tip shark at New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Reuters

A tiger that narrowly survived a gruelling journey across Europe is pictured in his temporary enclosure at the Animal Advocacy and Protection animal refuge near Alicante, Spain. AFP

Volunteers collect a rusted shopping cart from the sea near the Ionian island of Zakynthos, during an operation to protect Aegean biodiversity from waste. AFP

French President Emmanuel Macron attends a tribute ceremony at the Invalides monument, in Paris, for the 13 French soldiers killed in Mali. AFP

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