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Syrians hold a copy of the Quran next to a Christian cross during a demonstration in support of unity among minorities and the ousting of the Bashar Assad government in Umayyad Square, in Damascus.
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World of photos, December 29, 2024

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

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Take care of your selfie, or you’ll go in Seine

Athletes shouldn’t splash on ceremony.

A dancer adjusts his costume before taking part in a procession honoring St. Thomas, the patron saint of Chichicastenango in Guatemala.
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World of photos, December 23, 2023

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

Hobbitenango, surrounded by cloud-ringed Mount Dooms.

Oh Lord: I visited a bizarre, fake Hobbit-theme park in a cloud forest

Who wouldn’t, given the chance, travel to a kooky cloud-forest amusement park trying its heart out to authentically rip off a movie-set-cum-theme park thousands of kilometres away?

  • Steve Madgwick
Emergency workers at the scene of the fire in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Migrants start fire at Mexico detention centre, killing 40

Fearing deportation, migrants started a fire that killed at least 40 people, in one of the deadliest events ever at a Mexican immigration lockup.

  • Maria Verza
US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a roundtable with government leaders and private sector representatives about migration on Monday.

Kamala Harris flags bid to keep Central American migrants at home

The US vice president is working with companies like Nestle and Target to create jobs and a more attractive life in crisis-hit countries.

  • Michael D. Shear
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US Vice-President Kamala Harrishas been handed a problem multiple US presidents have failed to solve.

‘It will not be easy’: Biden hands Kamala Harris problem he couldn’t fix

Biden’s decision gives a high-profile assignment to his Vice-President, a daughter of immigrants who has forged a reputation as an ally of immigration advocates.

  • Andrea Shalal, Steve Holland and Nandita Bose
Migrants enter Guatemala after breaking a police barricade at the border checkpoint on January 16, 2021 in El Florido, Guatemala.

Guatemala cracks down on migrant caravan bound for United States

Thousands of Hondurans, many of them families with children, are travelling in a migrant caravan headed for the United States as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take power.

  • Sofia Menchu and Gustavo Palencia
In a small village in Colombia, a farmer picks Coca leaves.

Washington 'war on drugs' in Latin America needs overhaul: report

It is the result of 18 months of research into the "war on drugs" that has cost billions of American taxpayers' dollars without ending violence and corruption.

  • Patricia Zengerle
An official photo of former Congress President Eduardo Meyer is thrown out from the Congress building after protesters set a part of the building on fire, in Guatemala City, on Saturday, November 21.

Protesters in Guatemala set fire to Congress building

The demonstrations in Guatemala City rocked a nation still recovering from back-to-back hurricanes that displaced thousands of people, destroyed homes and obliterated infrastructure.

  • Nic Wirtz and Natalie Kitroeff

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