Today in Pictures, Dec 17, 2024
North Koreans remembering their late leader Kim Jong Il, the launch of Malaysia’s first electric car, and more images from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Buddha statues are seen at Wat Phra That Pha Sorn Kaew temple, Khao Kho district, in Thailand's Phetchabun province, on Dec 17, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A drone view of Damascus city at night, after the ousting of President Bashar al-Assad, in Syria on Dec 16, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Members of Syria's White Helmets civil defence collecting human remains at a mass grave that was uncovered in Damascus on Dec 16, 2024. Islamist-led rebels took Damascus in a lightning offensive on Dec 8, ousting President Bashar al-Assad and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria.
PHOTO: AFP
People laying flowers and paying their respects in front of statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill to mark the 13th anniversary of the death of Kim Jong Il, the father of current leader Kim Jong Un, in Pyongyang on Dec 17, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
A worker checking on a production line of high-end threads in a factory in Zaozhuang, eastern China's Shandong province, on Dec 15, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
Relatives and supporters of the hostages kidnapped during the deadly Oct 7, 2023, attack by Hamas holding a protest performance promoting a deal that would bring the hostages home, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Dec 17, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Visitors checking Malaysia's first electric car, the Proton e.MAS 7, during a launch ceremony in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 16, 2024.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Cuban pilgrims participating in the San Lazaro procession at El Rincon church in Havana on Dec 16, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
French gendarmes working with locals to clear a road blocked by an uprooted tree on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, after the cyclone Chido hit the archipelago, on Dec 15, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
An aerial view showing thick smog from air pollution shrouding Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, on Dec 16, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
Silhouettes of a military vehicle and a soldier are seen near the Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, in Israel on Dec 16, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
