Today in Pictures, Jan 3, 2025
Fervent Vietnamese football supporters, aftermath of the Syrian civil war, and more images from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Vietnamese football supporters holding a portrait of Ho Chi Minh before the start of the 2024 Asean Electric Cup final first leg football match between Vietnam and Thailand at the Viet Tri Stadium in Phu Tho province in Vietnam on Jan 2.
PHOTO: AFP
Destruction in the Damascus district of Assali in Syria on Jan 2. The fall of the longstanding Assad regime that ruled Syria for more than 50 years became a global turning point in 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
Strollers walk between pancake ice on the frozen Lake des Rousses in Les Rousses, France, on Jan 1. This phenomenon occurs when slushy ice in water clumps into round, pancake-like shapes due to waves or currents.
PHOTO: AFP
An aerial shot of people trying to salvage items from the remains of a secondhand clothing market at Kantamanto in Accra, Ghana, on Jan 2. The fire began in the early morning hours, destroying a large part of the area and displacing thousands of traders.
PHOTO: AFP
A vendor waits for customers behind fish for sale at a market in Surabaya, Indonesia, on Jan 2.
PHOTO: AFP
A woman with a child walks amid destroyed houses in the shanty town of Cavani, which was damaged by Cyclone Chido in Mamoudzou city, in the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, on Jan 2.
PHOTO: AFP
This picture of the aurora borealis taken from the France village of La Roquebrussanne early on Jan 1.
PHOTO: AFP
An Afghan street vendor prepares local fritters known as pakawra during the first heavy snowfall this winter in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan 2.
PHOTO: AFP
High-speed trains on stabling tracks in Nanjing, China's Jiangsu province, on Jan 2. China aims to expand the length of its operating high-speed rail tracks to around 60,000km by 2030, up from 48,000 km at the end of 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
