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  1. A member of the hospital team wearing navy blue clothes and blue sterile gloves using the hand crank to make the washing machine work. The washing machine is like a big metal drum on its side with the Washing Machine Project written on it.

  2. A shark in the Red Sea surrounded by fish.

  3. HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa speaking into a blue microphone

  4. Zak Hajjaj, Abu Finiin, Kayum Miah sitting down smiling facing Abu who is holding up a glass of tea

  5. An armed and masked man stands inside a gate, while a crowd of other men press against the gate.

  6. Two men wheel an injured man on a bed with a drip

  7. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus looks on during a press conference

  8. A man in a blue shirt sits next to a woman in a headscarf, her hand on his shoulder.

  9. Armed Houthi supporters take part in a protest against Israel and the US in Sanaa, Yemen (27 December 2024)

  10. Noam Glukhovsky stands outside in a park wearing a beige T-shirt

  11. Gaza's civil defence members tackle a fire in a van with "Press" written on the back door following an Israeli strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp (26/12/24)

  12. World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus shot from chest height up, holding his left hand to his chin, with a UN flag in background

  13. Armed fighters of Syria's new rebel-led government. Photo: December 2024

  14. The damaged exterior of an air traffic control tower

  15. Tedros

  16. The six hostages (clockwise left to right): Alex Lobanov, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Master Sgt Ori Danino, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat

  17. Reverend Munther Isaac lights a candle near a pile of rubble with baby Jesus figure lying on top inside the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethleham

  18. men in damascus carrying crosses during protest

  19. A blue Russian ship lists to starboard in the Mediterranean

  20. Police in riot gear guard a Dutch bus in Amsterdam

  21. Ismail Haniyeh speaking into a microphone with the Palestinian flag in the background.

  22. Bashar al-Assad, left, smiles and waves wearing a dark suit. His wife Asma al-Assad smiles more widely beside him, and wears a grey striped jacket.

  23. A pre-teen boy stands amongst grey rubble and burned out cars, squinting up towards the camera

  24. Men carry the coffin of a Hezbollah member who was killed in a pager blast (18/09/24)