Moments that defined 2024

Members of the Abu Sinjar household mourn their relatives killed successful an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, astatine their location successful Rafah, confederate Gaza, connected January 5. [Fatima Shbair/AP Photo]

Yulia Navalnaya, centre, widow of Alexey Navalny, stands successful a queue with different voters astatine a polling presumption adjacent the Russian embassy successful Berlin connected March 17, during the Russian statesmanlike elections. [Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo]

Supporters of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi deterioration masks of his face, arsenic they be an predetermination run rally successful Meerut, India, March 31. The largest electoral process successful the world, involving 7 phases, took spot successful India betwixt April and May with Narendra Modi winning the Prime Minister position. [Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters]

Debris surrounds a tilted gathering a time aft a almighty earthquake struck, successful Hualien City, eastbound Taiwan, April 4. A 7.4 magnitude tremor, Taiwan’s astir almighty successful 25 years, killed 10 radical and injured much than 1,000. [Chiang Ying-ying/AP Photo]

Student protesters stitchery wrong their encampment connected the Columbia University campus, connected April 29, successful New York. Dozens of US assemblage campuses saw protests against the Israeli genocide successful Gaza. [Stefan Jeremiah/AP Photo]

A pistillate with 2 children carries their belongings arsenic residents of the Lower Delmas fly their homes owed to pack violence, successful Port-au-Prince, Haiti connected May 2. Key authorities sites were attacked successful an detonation of unit that included a wide flight from the country’s 2 biggest prisons. [Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters]

Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) enactment co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla respond to results aft the polls closed successful the European Parliament elections, successful Berlin, Germany, June 9. [Annegret Hilse/Reuters]

Emergency services enactment astatine the tract of Okhmatdyt children's infirmary deed by Russian missiles, successful Kyiv, Ukraine, July 8. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]

Republican statesmanlike campaigner and erstwhile US President Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents aft an assassination effort astatine a run rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13. Trump won the November predetermination against Democrat Kamala Harris, securing his 2nd mandate astatine the White House. [Evan Vucci/AP Photo]

Antigovernment protesters show Bangladesh's nationalist emblem arsenic they tempest Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace successful Dhaka connected August 5. Hasina was deposed and fled to India, ending 15 years of her "authoritarian" regime. [KM Asad/AFP]

Athletes vie during the men's 10km marathon swimming contention astatine the 2024 Summer Olympics successful Paris, France, connected August 9. [Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo]

A Palestinian walks past the rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli strikes, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, successful Khan Younis successful confederate Gaza Strip, September 4. More than 45,000 Palestinians person been killed by Israel successful astir 15 months of genocide. [Hatem Khaled/Reuters]

People stitchery successful beforehand of destroyed buildings deed by an Israeli aerial onslaught successful cardinal Beirut, Lebanon, connected October 10. [Bilal Hussein/AP Photo]

Syrians chant slogans and question the caller Syrian emblem arsenic they stitchery for archetypal Friday prayers aft the autumn of the Syrian government, astatine the Umayyad mosque successful Damascus, Syria, December 13. [Leo Correa/AP Photo]

People deterioration accepted Ukrainian apparel arsenic they people Christmas Day with a carol singing event, amid Russia's onslaught connected Ukraine, successful Kyiv, Ukraine, December 25. [Thomas Peter/Reuters]