Palestinians run to seek cover from tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against Israel's settlements in the village of Bet Dajan near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, 11 December 2020. Seven Palestinians were wounded during the clashes. (Photo by Alaa Badarneh/EPA/EFE)





Protesters attend a torchlight procession to ask the reopening of the culture sector places in Nantes, France on December 15, 2020. (Photo by Loic Venance/AFP Photo)





Refugees from the Tigray region of Ethiopia board buses to a Um Rakuba refugee camp after spending days to weeks at a UNHCR reception center located in the east Sudanese border village of Hamdayet on December 7, 2020 in Hamdayet, Sudan. Last week, the Ethiopian government declared victory in its nearly month long battle with the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which sent 45,000 people fleeing to Sudan and displaced thousands more within the Tigray Region. In recent days, Ethiopian forces have prevented even more people from crossing the border into Sudan, while a TPLF spokesman said that fighting had continued outside of Mekelle, Tigray's regional capital. (Photo by Byron Smith/Getty Images)





Supporters of opposition political party Pakistani Muslim League (Nawaz) surround the convoy of their leader Maryam Nawaz Sharif during an anti-government rally, in Lahore, Pakistan, 10 December 2020. The major opposition political parties, that have formed an alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) are gearing up for an anti-government rally in Lahore 13 December. (Photo by Rahat Dar/EPA/EFE)





A ballet dancer poses in a giant plastic bubble as she entertains Christmas shoppers in Melbourne on December 13, 2020. (Photo by William West/AFP Photo)





A postman riding through floodwater in West Derby in Liverpool after heavy rain in the region, Liverpool, United Kingdom on December 8, 2020. (Photo by Jon Super/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





An Indigenous child cries in the midst of a crowd of protesters outside the presidential house during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Alejandro Giammattei, Guatemala's Attorney General Maria Consuelo Porras and Guatemala's Interior Minister Gendri Reyes in Guatemala City, Thursday, December 10, 2020. (Photo by Oliver de Ros/AP Photo)





Medical staff members wearing protective outfits wait to test for COVID-19 passengers arriving at the Palermo harbor, Sicily, southern Italy, Tuesday, December 15, 2020. The Italian government is weighing even tighter restrictions over the Christmas holiday to avoid a new resurgence and as some regions continue to struggle with high levels of new positives. (Photo by Francesco Militello Mirto/LaPresse via AP Photo)





A picture taken on December 14, 2020 evening shows a police van illuminated by the lightshow of “Festival Lausanne Lumières” at the Riponne place in the center of Lausanne, Switzerland. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP Photo)





Saint Mikulas Day is celebrated on the eve of December 5, 2020 in Levoca, Slovakia. Municipalities and small villages usually prepare a special program for their residents. Due to the current restrictions, many mayors decide to organize a parade instead where allegorical characters of St. Mikulas, the devil, an elf, or an angel pass the streets and greet the kids giving them some sweets too. Levoca is a small town in Eastern Slovakia with medieval architecture and as such popular tourist destination. However, under current restrictions due to the Covid-19 faces loss of its visitors. (Photo by Zuzana Gogova / Getty Images)





Lorries queue on the route into Dover Port to board ferries to France on December 11, 2020 in Dover, United Kingdom. The trade deal negotiations between the EU and the UK have reached an impasse with negotiators stuck on two points: a so-called level playing field to ensure fair competition between companies and fishing quotas. Negotiators from both sides have until Sunday to reach a deal or the UK will leave the EU with no deal and will begin trading on WTO terms. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)





Dinners eat in pods set up for the pop-up restaurant Aqua Gastronomy inside Resorts World Sentosa's S.E.A. Aquarium, which runs in the evenings following the aquarium's visiting hours, in Singapore on December 3, 2020. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





President-elect Joe Biden, wearing a medical boot, raises his leg as he enters The Queen theater, Tuesday, December 1, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)





Swimmers known as the Lido Ladies pose by the pool during sunrise at Charlton Lido in Hornfair Park, London on December 2, 2020, on its first day of reopening after the second national lockdown ended and England enters a strengthened tiered system of regional coronavirus restrictions. (Photo by Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images)





Skiers and snowboarders gesture from a chairlift as La Masella ski resort re-opens observing nationwide coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions, in Masella, Spain, December 14, 2020. (Photo by Albert Gea/Reuters)





A Palestinian man dressed in a Santa Claus costume spreads happiness among the camp children amid the ongoing coronavirus COVID-19 pandemi​c, in Al Shatea refugee camp in Gaza City, 16 December 2020. (Photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA/EFE)





A robot, used to plant seeds and check the plants while growing, moves past vertical racks at the vertical plant farm “Nordic Harvest” based in Taastrup, a suburb west of Copenhagen, on November 20, 2020. A purple halo runs over racks where lettuce, herbs and kale will soon be growing: in a commonplace warehouse in an industrial zone on the outskirts of Copenhagen is one of the largest “vertical” farms in Europe, inaugurated this week. (Photo by Thibault Savary/AFP Photo)





A wooden phallus stands on the Gruenten mountain in Rettneberg, Germany on December 3, 2020 after the mysterious disappearance of a similar predecessor. (Photo by Davor Knappmayer/dpa via AP Photo)





Health volunteers try to protect themselves from water during a clash with riot police during an anti-government demonstration on International Human Rights Day on December 10, 2020 in Santiago, Chile. After the massive protests that began in October 2019, Chile prepares to rewrite its dicatatorship-era constitution. During the social unrest, that lasted until March 2020, several police abuses were denounced by international organizations. Today is also the 14th anniversary of the death of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet who ruled the country between 1973 and 1990. (Photo by Claudio Santana/Getty Images)





A motorcade follows the coffin of Rebels bikie Nick Martin to Pinnaroo Cemetery in Perth, Wednesday, December 23, 2020. Former Rebels president Nick Martin was gunned down earlier this month at the Perth Motorplex. (Photo by Richard Wainwright/AAP Image)