A protestor prepares to jump on a banner with the image of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a demonstration organised by The Kurdish Democratic Society Center in Sweden, as Sweden seeks Turkey's approval to join NATO, in Stockholm, Saturday, January 21, 2023. Demonstrations took place in Sweden that could complicate its efforts to persuade Turkey to approve its NATO accession. A far-right activist from Denmark has received permission from police to stage a protest on Saturday outside the Turkish Embassy, where he intends to burn the Quran, Islam’s holy book. (Photo by Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP Photo)





A woman and a child pose a souvenir photo with a rabbit shaped floral decoration at a pedestrian shopping street at Qianmen on the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday in Beijing, Sunday, January 22, 2023. People across China rang in the Lunar New Year on Sunday with large family gatherings and crowds visiting temples after the government lifted its strict “zero-COVID” policy, marking the biggest festive celebration since the pandemic began three years ago. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A Chinese tourist Niu Jiayi poses for a picture near a light sculpture for the Year of the Rabbit in Bangkok, Thailand on January 20, 2023. The expected resumption of group tours from China is likely to bring far more visitors. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus reacts after defeating Donna Vekic of Croatia in their quarterfinal match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday, January 25, 2023. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Men in protective suits carry a cardboard box out of a house in Castrop-Rauxel during an anti-terror operation on Sunday, January 8, 2023. German investigators are searching two garages used by an Iranian man arrested on suspicion that he could be planning an attack with deadly chemicals. The 32-year-old and his 25-year-old brother were detained on Saturday night in Castrop-Rauxel, in western Germany, following a tip from U.S. security officials. (Photo by 7aktuell.de, Marc Gruber/dpa via AP Photo)





A solider reacts as a tank approaches during a preparedness enhancement drill simulating the defense against Beijing's military intrusions, ahead of the Lunar New Year in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. China renewed its threats Wednesday to attack Taiwan and warned that foreign politicians who interact with the self-governing island are “playing with fire”. (Photo by Daniel Ceng/AP Photo)





Women walk through decorations for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, January 19, 2023. Chinese New Year falls on Jan. 22 this year, marking the start of the Year of Rabbit, according to the Chinese lunar calendar. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





Ukrainian servicemen fire an anti-aircraft gun towards Russian positions on a frontline near the town of Bakhmut, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine on January 15, 2023. (Photo by Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters)





This undated satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, shows craters in fields in East Bakhmut, Ukraine. (Photo by Maxar Technologies via AP Photo)





A supporter of presidential candidate and former chairman of the NATO Military Committee and Czech Army General Petr Pavel hands out leaflets, ahead of a direct presidential election that will start on January 13, in Prague, Czech Republic on January 5, 2023. (Photo by David W. Cerny/Reuters)





This photo taken on January 13, 2023, shows a large inflatable mannequin depicting Japanese contemporary artists Yayoi Kusama decorating the French luxury brand Louis Vuitton flagship store on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP Photo)





French gendarmes arrest environmental activists of “Derniere Renovation” (Last Renovation) group after they sprayed paint on the facade of the Hotel Matignon to draw attention to climate change and to denounce the French State failure to not honor its climate commitments, in Paris, France on January 4, 2023. (Photo by Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters)





Young Socialists Switzerland (JUSO) activists take part in a protest against the World Economic Forum (WEF), calling for a climate tax on the rich, on the eve of the WEF annual meeting in Davos, on January 15, 2022. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP Photo)





Damaged apartment blocks in the town of Lyman, Donetsk region, Ukraine, 22 January 2023. Lyman was re-captured by Ukraine's armed forces in October. Before the beginning of active combat action population of Lyman was around 41,000. After being under Russian occupation, without electricity, water and gas supply, infrastructure is slowly renewing. Russian troops entered Ukraine terriroty on 24 February 2022, starting an armed conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Oleg Petrasyuk/EPA/EFE)





Smoke rises as Donetsk's emergency employees work at a site of a shopping center destroyed following what Russian officials in Donetsk said it was a shelling by Ukrainian forces, in Donetsk, in Russian-controlled Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Monday, January 16, 2023. (Photo by Alexei Alexandrov/AP Photo)





This photograph taken on January 26, 2023, shows a church in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov/AFP Photo)





Dancers, known as Kukeri, wearing costumes perform during the International Festival of the Masquerade Games in Pernik, near Sofia on January 28, 2023. The three-day festival, which started on January 27, has participants wearing multi-coloured masks, covered with beads, ribbons and woolen tassels while the main dancer, ladened with bells to drive away sickness and evil spirits, sways like a wheat spikelet heavy with grain. (Photo by Nikolay Doychinov/AFP Photo)





Bulgarian men perform the traditional “Horo” dance in the winter waters of the Tundzha river in the town of Kalofer, as part of Epiphany Day celebrations on January 6, 2023. As a tradition, an Eastern Orthodox priest throws a cross in the river and it is believed that the one who retreives it will be healthy throughout the year as well as all those who dance in the icy waters. (Photo by Nikolay Doychinov/AFP Photo)





Shinto believers take a bath in cold water to purify their souls and bodies during a New Year ritual at Kanda Myojin Shrine in Tokyo on January 14, 2023. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP Photo)