• US. Army Paratroopers assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, deploy from Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina. AFP
    US. Army Paratroopers assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, deploy from Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina. AFP
  • Residents push a motorcycle among submerged taxis on a flooded street in Jakarta, Indonesia. EPA
    Residents push a motorcycle among submerged taxis on a flooded street in Jakarta, Indonesia. EPA
  • Boats are pulled ashore as smoke and wildfires rage behind Lake Conjola, Australia. AP
    Boats are pulled ashore as smoke and wildfires rage behind Lake Conjola, Australia. AP
  • Netherlands' Mathieu Van Der Poel competes during the men's elite race of the GP Sven Nys, the sixth stage in the DVV Trophy Cyclocross competition in Baal, Belgium. AFP
    Netherlands' Mathieu Van Der Poel competes during the men's elite race of the GP Sven Nys, the sixth stage in the DVV Trophy Cyclocross competition in Baal, Belgium. AFP
  • A Kashmiri man fishes near a frozen waterfall in the Drang area of Tangmarg, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. EPA
    A Kashmiri man fishes near a frozen waterfall in the Drang area of Tangmarg, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. EPA
  • A worker places incense sticks on a wooden platform to dry at the Fujian Xingquan Incense Factory in the city of Quanzhou in China's Fujian Province. AFP
    A worker places incense sticks on a wooden platform to dry at the Fujian Xingquan Incense Factory in the city of Quanzhou in China's Fujian Province. AFP
  • The first sunrise of 2020 brings deep orange and pink colors over the Duluth Harbor North and South Breakwater Lighthouses in the US. AP
    The first sunrise of 2020 brings deep orange and pink colors over the Duluth Harbor North and South Breakwater Lighthouses in the US. AP
  • A surfer on his board at the Praia de Cruz beach in Sal Rei on Boa Vista island, Cape Verde. AFP
    A surfer on his board at the Praia de Cruz beach in Sal Rei on Boa Vista island, Cape Verde. AFP
  • Austria's Philipp Aschenwald in action at a ski-jumping tournament in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Reuters
    Austria's Philipp Aschenwald in action at a ski-jumping tournament in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Reuters

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World in focus - best photos for January 2, 2020

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