【特集】AFPのベストショット：12月21日～12月26日

Mourners hug in front of a makeshift memorial of flowers and candles for the victims of a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on December 23, 2024. (c)RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP

Mourners place candles on the beach at the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Park in the southern Thai province of Phang Nga on December 26, 2024. (c)Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP

Mgr. Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, Priest of the Diocese of Paris, celebrates the traditional Christmas mass in the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral in Paris on 24 December 2024, for the first time since the fire in 2019. (c)JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP

A girl looks on in the town of Vahibe, on the outskirts of Mamoudzou, on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, on December 24, 2024, a week after the cyclone Chido's passage over the archipelago. (c)PATRICK MEINHARDT / AFP

Men work on ice sculptures during the 37th Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo in Harbin, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province on December 25, 2024. (c)AFP

Britain's King Charles III (C) talks with Reverend Canon Paul Williams after attending the Royal Family's traditional Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, Norfolk, eastern England, on December 25, 2024. (c)Oli SCARFF / AFP

Hawaiian surfer Noah Beschen catches a wave at the Pe'ahi Jaws Surf Break on the island of Maui, Hawaii, on December 21, 2024. (c)Brian Bielmann / AFP

A rebel fighter walks past a defaced picture of toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in a military base in the capital Damascus on December 26, 2024. (c)Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP

This photograph shows a general view of damaged shelters and houses in the town of Vahibe, on the outskirts of Mamoudzou, on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, on December 24, 2024, a week after the cyclone Chido's passage over the archipelago. (c)PATRICK MEINHARDT / AFP

This photograph shows damaged homes in the city of Mamoudzou on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, after the cyclone Chido hit the archipelago on December 22, 2024. (c)PATRICK MEINHARDT / AFP

French President Emmanuel Macron and firstlady Brigitte Macron observe a minute of silence as part of a national day of mourning in tribute to the vicitms of the cyclone Chido's passage over the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, at the Elysee presidential Palace, in Paris, on December 23, 2024. (c)Thomas Padilla / POOL / AFP

Women light candles during a ceremony held on the 20th anniversary for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, at Pattinapakkam beach in Chennai on December 26, 2024. (c)R.Satish BABU / AFP

Flowers are scattered on the beach after women performed rituals during a ceremony held for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, at Pattinapakkam beach in Chennai on December 26, 2024. (c)R.Satish BABU / AFP

Syafriani, 41, whose mother is still missing after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, cleans in front of her house where two patrol boats washed ashore and remain preserved at the community's wish, in Banda Aceh on December 25, 2024, on the eve of the tsunami's anniversary. (c)Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP

Emergency specialists work at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet near the western Kazakh city of Aktau on December 25, 2024. (c)Issa Tazhenbayev / AFP

Believers light candles during a Christmas service in St. Michael's Cathedral in Kyiv, on December 24, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (c)Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP

A protester has her mouth closed with a piece of tape reading "Silence kills" as relatives and friends of Ukrainian prisoners of war from the Azov Brigade and sub-units take part in a rally to call for their exchange with Russian prisoners in the center of Kyiv on December 22, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (c)Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP

Mozambican security forces are seen next to a burning barricade in Maputo on December 24, 2024. (c)Amilton Neves / AFP

A protester holds a machete as he gestures next to a burning barricade in Maputo on December 23, 2024. (c)Amilton Neves / AFP

Civilians check the site of an Israeli strike in a residential area in the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, on December 26, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (c)Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP

A woman reacts during the funeral of members of the press who were killed in an Israeli strike, at the al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on December 26, 2024. (c)Eyad BABA / AFP

Palestinians greet one another after Israeli strikes in Gaza City's al-Zaitoun neighbourhood on December 26, 2024, as the war between Israel and Hamas militants continues. (c)Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP

People inspect a damaged vehicle at the site of reported Israeli bombardment on tents sheltering Palestinians displaced from Beit Lahia at a camp in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 25, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (c)BASHAR TALEB / AFP

A rebel fighter walks in a military base in the capital Damascus on December 26, 2024. (c)Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP

People wave an independence-era flag bearing the image of late rebel fighter and famous chanter Abdel-Basset al-Sarout at Aleppo's Saadallah al-Jabri Square as they take part in the "Liberation Festival", celebrating the fall of president Bashar al-Assad on December 21, 2024. (c)Aaref WATAD / AFP

A couple watches the sunrise from a spot on Mount Qasioun overlooking Damascus on December 25, 2024. (c)Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP

A surfer dressed as Santa Claus participates in the 16th annual "Surfing Santas" event on Christmas Eve in Cocoa Beach, Florida, December 24, 2024. (c)Giorgio VIERA / AFP

Pope Francis (R) opens the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica, during a special ceremony to mark the launch of the Jubilee 2025, a year of Catholic celebrations set to draw more than 30 million pilgrims to Rome, at the Vatican, on December 24, 2024. (c)Remo Casilli / POOL / AFP

People ride a Luna Park's Sledgehammer in front of the International Financial Centre (IFC) tower in Hong Kong on December 26, 2024. (c)Mladen ANTONOV / AFP

A man takes a photograph of thousands of students and citizens attending a protest over the collapse of a train station roof that killed 15 people last month, amid a widespread blockade of higher education institutions in downtown Belgrade on December 22, 2024. (c)OLIVER BUNIC / AFP

Posters of missing people hang on a monument in the centre of Marjeh Square in Damascus on December 26, 2024. (c)Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP