An Israeli APC maneuvers near the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, Friday, December 29, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (Photo by Ariel Schalit/AP Photo)





This photograph taken on December 7, 2023 in Monaco shows a general view of the Christmas illuminations. (Photo by Valery Hache/AFP Photo)





In this photo provided by Kharkiv Regional Administration, a man clears broken glass in a storefront after a Russian missile attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, December 31, 2023. (Photo by Kharkiv Regional Administration via AP Photo)





Tourists pose in front of the Eiffel Tower, Wednesday, December 27, 2023 in Paris. The Eiffel Tower was shut down to visitors Wednesday because of a strike over contract negotiations, the day the Paris monument marks 100 years since the death of its creator, Gustave Eiffel. Tourists can still access the glass-enclosed esplanade beneath the tower, but access to the 300-meter (984-foot) landmark itself is closed until further notice, (Photo by Lewis Joly/AP Photo)





Men light fireworks for the celebration honoring Saint Thomas, the patron saint of Chichicastenango in Guatemala, Thursday, December 21, 2023. (Photo by Moises Castillo/AP Photo)





People watch a light show projected on the Arc de Triomphe as they celebrate New Year's on the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, Sunday, December 31, 2023. (Photo by Aurelien Morissard/AP Photo)





Children run next to a paraglider wearing Santa Claus costume landing to deliver gifts to refugee children from Karabakh region, near the village of Akunk, outside Yerevan, on December 26, 2023, as part of “ParaSanta”, an event organised by the Armenian Paragliding Club. (Photo by Karen Minasyan/AFP Photo)





An Israeli army self-propelled artillery howitzer fires rounds from a position near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on December 7, 2023 amid battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP Photo)





Armed with M16 automatic guns, Ultra-orthodox Jewish men of the Ger Hasidic dynasty and part of the first-response tactical team of their community, stand guard during a wedding event in Jerusalem on December 27, 2023. Amid Israel's war in the Gaza Strip against the Palestinian militant group Hamas following the deadly October 7 attacks the Ultra-Orthodox society crated first-response tactical teams to protect their community in a possible deadly attack. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP Photo)





A Serbian opposition supporter is restrained by fellow protesters trying to avoid a violent escalation during a protest joined by several thousand people, outside the country's electoral commission in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, December 18, 2023. An early official vote count of Serbia's weekend election on Monday confirmed victory for the ruling populist party in a parliamentary vote in the Balkan country, but political tensions rose over reported irregularities in the capital, Belgrade. (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)





Dancers perform during a New Year's celebration on the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, Sunday, December 31, 2023. (Photo by Aurelien Morissard/AP Photo)





Local residents stand among debris on the street outside a house destroyed as a result of a drone attack in Tairove (alternatively spelled “Tayirove”), Odesa region, on December 17, 2023. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov/AFP Photo)





A photograph taken on December 6, 2023 from Les Avants, above Montreux shows the 2,042 meters high Rochers-de-Naye alpine mountain illuminated with a giant Santa during a show by Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter to promote a Christmas Market. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP Photo)





In this aerial view, the landmark Kuwait Towers and other skyscrapers pierce through the cloud cover over Kuwait City on December 10, 2023. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP Photo)





A man surfs the waves on the Eisbach river, one day after heavy snowfall hit Bavaria and its capital Munich, Germany on December 3, 2023. (Photo by Louisa Off/Reuters)





Eduardo Rodriguez, 34, a Spanish police officer, known as Edu Balboa, dressed up as Spiderman, waves at a girl and her aunt as he visits children with cancer to try to make them smile through the windows as he hangs from the facade of the Materno Infantil hospital in Malaga, Spain on December 18, 2023. (Photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters)





People enjoy festivities at the central Ala-Too Square, decorated to mark the upcoming New Year holiday, in Bishkek on December 20, 2023. New Year, which was the biggest informal holiday of the year in the former Soviet Union, is also very popular in predominantly Muslim Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan. (Photo by Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP Photo)





A woman removes shards of glass from broken windows of a building housing a beauty salon, following recent shelling in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine on December 3, 2023. (Photo by Valery Melnikov/Reuters)





Zoltan Kereszteny, an activist of the Hungarian civil society organization “Ujratervezes” (Redesigning), holds his hand next to a Russian uniform with an “Orban” name label on it, in front of the protocol entrance of the Hungarian government's lounge at the Budapest Airport on December 12, 2023, during the group's flash mob. Activists staged the protest against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Ukraine and Russia policy, prior to a summit of the European Union (EU). According to Kereszteny's facebook page, the activists wanted to symbolically hand over the uniform to Orban, so that he could wear it “when he represents (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's interests at the EU meetings”. Leaders of the 27 European Union members meet on December 14, 2023 to decide the fate of a promised 50 billion-euro ($54 billion) aid package for Ukraine, additional funds for weapons shipments and opening Ukraine's path to join the bloc. (Photo by Attila Kisbenedek/AFP Photo)