Shop attendants watch as a medic washes the eyes of a protester who was pepper sprayed inside a shopping mall in the Sheung Shui in Hong Kong, China, 28 December 2019. Protests flared up in malls in the outlying districts on Hong Kong as the new year approaches. (Photo by Vivek Prakash/EPA/EFE)





A demonstrator writes a message on a memorial timeline banner during an anti-government rally at Edinburgh Place in Hong Kong, China, December 29, 2019. (Photo by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)





Protesters and “Gilets Jaunes” (Yellow Vests) throw scooters into a burning fire barricade during a demonstration against pension reforms lead by French Unions in Paris, France, 28 December 2019. Unions representing railway and transport workers and many others in the public sector have called for a 24th days consecutive general strike and demonstration to protest against French government's reform of the pension system. (Photo by Christophe Petit-Tesson/EPA/EFE)





Members of the security forces hold a man dressed as a clown during a protest against Chile's government in Santiago, Chile on December 27, 2019. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)





A prisoner (L) makes fists next to an Ukrainian police officer prior to a prisoner exchange between Ukrainian and pro-Russian rebels sides, not far from the Maiorske checkpoint, Donetsk area, Ukraine, 29 December 2019. According to media reports, the Ukrainian side will swap prisoners who were captured in Ukrainian-controlled territory for Ukrainian citizens, including prisoners of war (POW) that were held hostages in occupied Donbas at the Maiorske crossing checkpoint, on the contact line between the warring parties near the pro-Russian militant-occupied town of Horlivka in Donetsk region. The agreement, reached during the summit of the Normandy Four leaders in Paris on 09 December 2019, sets the exchange between Kyiv and Donbas to be carried out before the end of the year. (Photo by Yevgen Honcharenko/EPA/EFE)





Jewish seminary students light hanukkiyot as they mark Hanukkah at the entrance to their dormitories in Bnei Brak, Israel on December 28, 2019. As sun set on Sunday, Jews across Israel marked the last night of the Hanukkah festival of lights. Hanukkah, Hebrew for “dedication”, commemorates the 2nd century BC victory of Judah Maccabee and his followers in a revolt in Judea against armies of the Seleucid Empire and the ensuing restoration of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. (Photo by Nir Elias/Reuters)





Jewish people try to reach the area where 5 people were stabbed at a Hasidic rabbi's home in Monsey, New York, U.S., December 29, 2019. An assailant who stabbed five people attending a party at an Hasidic rabbi's home in what New York's governor called an act of domestic terrorism appears to have been acting alone, police said on Sunday. Grafton Thomas, 37, is accused of attempted murder after bursting in to the Hanukkah celebration on Saturday night in Rockland County, about 30 miles north of New York City. Police said he fled and was later arrested in Manhattan by two officers who were on the lookout for his car. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)





A sign is seen half burnt after bushfires ravaged the town of Bilpin, 70km west of Sydney on December 29, 2019. A heatwave is due to sweep across parts of New South Wales in the coming days, with deteriorating bushfire conditions expected to hit on New Years Eve on December 31. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP Photo)





A koala receives water from a cyclist during a severe heatwave that hit the region, in Adelaide Hills, South Australia, Australia December 27, 2019 in this image taken from social media. The animal was nearly run over by the team of cyclists who came to its aid as it sat on the road to Adelaide in baking 40C heat. (Photo by @BIKEBUG2019/Instagram via Reuters)





Revellers dressed in mock military garb throw eggs as they take part in the “Els Enfarinats” battle in the southeastern Spanish town of Ibi on December 28, 2019. During this 200-year-old traditional festival participants known as Els Enfarinats (those covered in flour) dress in military clothes and stage a mock coup d'etat as they battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers outside the city town hall as part of the celebrations of the Day of the Innocents, a traditional day in Spain for pulling pranks. (Photo by Jaime Reina/AFP Photo)





Revellers take part in the Els Enfarinats festival, in the town of Ibi near Alicante, Spain, Saturday December 28, 2019. For about 200-years the inhabitants of Ibi annually celebrate with a battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers, outside the city town hall. (Photo by Alberto Saiz/AP Photo)





Revellers dressed in mock military garb throw eggs as they take part in the “Els Enfarinats” battle in the southeastern Spanish town of Ibi on December 28, 2019. (Photo by Jaime Reina/AFP Photo)





Revellers take part in the Els Enfarinats festival, in the town of Ibi near Alicante, Spain, Saturday December 28, 2019. For about 200-years the inhabitants of Ibi annually celebrate with a battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers, outside the city town hall. (Photo by Alberto Saiz/AP Photo)





Believers of Afro-Brazilian religions pay tribute to Yemanja during a traditional celebration ahead of New Year's eve on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December 28, 2019. (Photo by Pilar Olivares/Reuters)