Today In Pictures, Dec 9, 2016

Russian participants at the Kremlin Cadet Ball in Moscow, Russia, Kashmiri boatmen in the River Jhelum, and survivors fleeing the eastern districts of Aleppo. These and more from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Dec 09, 2016, 02:22 PM

Russian participants preparing for the Kremlin Cadet Ball in Moscow on Dec 8, 2016. PHOTO: EPA

A man sitting in a tent made of burlap during a traditional festival in Doha as part of the celebrations ahead of Qatar's National Day, which falls on Dec 18, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS

Chad Le Clos of South Africa won the 100m Butterfly final at the 13th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Windsor Ontario, Canada, on Dec 8, 2016. He set a new world record with a timing of 48.08sec. PHOTO: AFP

Pastor Matthias Linke of the Evangelisch-Freikirchliche Gemeinde church baptising a newly converted Muslim refugee during a ceremony in Berlin on Nov 27, 2016. PHOTO: AFP

Kashmiri boatmen extracting sand from the River Jhelum at Sangam, south of the Indian city of Srinagar, on Dec 8, 2016. PHOTO: AFP

Rescue workers surveying the site of a plane crash near the village of Saddha Batolni, near Abbotabad city in Pakistan on Dec 8, 2016. All 48 passengers were killed after the plane crashed into a mountain on Dec 7. PHOTO: REUTERS

Men fixing a pinata of US President-elect Donald Trump as a devil at the traditional Burning Of The Devil festival in Guatemala City on Dec 7, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS

People reacting as Iraqi police fire shots in the air to control a crowd of people overrunning an aid distribution point run by United Nations agencies at Zahra district, east of Mosul, Iraq on Dec 8, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS

People, who left the eastern districts of Aleppo, carrying their belongings as they walk in a government held area of Aleppo, Syria, on Dec 8, 2016.

Survivors in a makeshift tent of an evacuation centre in Meureudu Pidie Jaya, Aceh, Indonesia, on Dec 9, 2016. Two days earlier, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake had rocked the province, leaving thousands of people homeless. PHOTO: EPA

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