A Ukrainian serviceman fires an NLAW anti-tank weapon during an exercise in the Joint Forces Operation, in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, February 15, 2022. An independent watchdog says many Western arms companies failed to ramp up production in 2022 despite a strong increase in demand for weapons and military equipment. Labor shortages, soaring costs and supply chain disruptions were exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or SIPRI. It said the arms revenue of the world’s 100 largest arms-producing and military services companies last year was $597 billion – a 3.5% drop from 2021. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





An Israeli artillery unit fires, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near the Israel-Gaza border, in southern Israel on December 27, 2023. (Photo by Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters)





Ukrainian service members of the 4th Ivan Vyhovskyi Separate Tank Brigade fire a 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer toward Russian troops near the front line town of Kupiansk, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on a Christmas Eve in Kharkiv region, Ukraine on December 24, 2023. (Photo by Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)





In this photo released by the Romanian Emergency Services Prahova (ISU Prahova), a guesthouse is in flames, in Tohani, Romania, Tuesday, December 26, 2023. A huge fire at a guesthouse in Romania on Tuesday morning has left several people dead, including a child, and some people are missing, authorities said. (Photo by Romanian Emergency Services – ISU Prahova via AP Photo)





Firemen work to extinguish fire after a blast at an oil terminal in Conakry, Guinea on December 18, 2023. (Photo by Souleymane Camara/Reuters)





This handout image shows an Icelandic Coast Guard helicopter overflying an volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula 3 km north of Grindavik, western Iceland on December 19, 2023. A volcanic eruption began on Monday night in Iceland, south of the capital Reykjavik, following an earthquake swarm, Iceland's Meteorological Office reported. (Photo by Icelandic Coast Guard/AFP Photo)





In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters work on a site of a building damaged after a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, December 29, 2023. (Photo by Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP Photo)





Craftsmen perform molten iron fireworks at a tourist attraction during the three-day New Year's Day holiday on December 30, 2023 in Feidong County, Hefei City, Anhui Province of China. (Photo by Ruan Xuefeng/VCG via Getty Images)





In this image made from video, residents watch a plume of smoke from a burning oil depot, in Conakry, Guinea, Monday, December 18, 2023. An explosion and inferno at Guinea’s main fuel depot in the capital of Conakry has left several people dead or injured. Guinea’s presidency says the fire broke out at the Guinean Petroleum Company depot shortly after a massive explosion past midnight Sunday. (Photo by AP Photo)





A Christmas Tree goes up in flames in a controlled-setting demonstration by the Glendale Fire Department on December 13, 2023, in Glendale, California. Firefighters showed how quickly a dried-out tree can ignite. According to the National Fire Protection Administration, Christmas trees account for hundreds of fires each year, often ignited by shorts in electrical lights or open flames from candles, lighters or matches. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP Photo)





A general view of fire at an oil refinery in Birjand, Iran on December 10, 2023. Despite two explosions, there have been no reported injuries. All 18 reservoirs at the refinery are said to have caught fire, while the initial stages of the blaze “consumed 1.5 million litres of fuel”, the news agency Fars said. (Photo by Mohsen Noferesti/IRNA/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





People take part in the Los Escobazos (Large Brooms) Festival in Jarandilla de la Vera, Extremadura, Spain on December 07, 2023. Tradition of “los escobazos” in Jarandilla de la Vera, a small town in Extremadura, Spain, dedicated to the Mary, mother of Jesus in which thousands of neighbors light bonfires and burn brooms, the celebration is a party declared “Party of Interest Regional Tourist of Spain”. (Photo by Pablo Garcia Sacristan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Firefighters try to extinguish a burning garbage bin, lit by protesters following an anniversary rally marking the 2008 police shooting of 15-year-old student Alexandros Grigoropoulos, in Athens, Greece on December 6, 2023. (Photo by Louiza Vradi/Reuters)





A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off with a crew of six, including Laura Shepard Churchley, the daughter of the first American in space Alan Shepard, for whom the spacecraft is named, from Launch Site One in west Texas, U.S. December 11, 2021. (Photo by Joe Skipper/Reuters)





A figure depicting a devil is shown burning as part of the traditional “Burning the Devil” event in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 07 December 2023. Thousands of Guatemalans celebrate the “Burning of the Devil” tradition, which is several centuries old, and some people used their ingenuity to give it a political nuance and protest against officials accused of trying to reverse this year's electoral results. (Photo by Edwin Bercián/EPA/EFE)