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A year in pictures – POLITICO

By staffDecember 27, 20243 Mins Read

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Left: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump dances at a rally in Michigan days before his election
victory.
Right:
No musician had a bigger year than Taylor
Swift. Between March 2023 and December 2024 she performed
149 shows across five continents, and her tour became the first
ever to exceed $1 billion in revenue.

A Hezbollah UAV is intercepted by Israeli air forces
over a position in northern Israel.

Pigeons fly after an Israeli rocket
hits a building in Beirut.

A Palestinian
girl poses in a
wedding dress
that was found
among the
rubble following
an Israeli
bombardment
of the Gaza strip.

Women
participate in
the “Beauty
of Donbas”
pageant in
Russian occupied
Donbas.
Russian media
wrote that the
event sought
to highlight
“the grace and
talents of young
women” living
in the region.

Activists from Extinction Rebellion demonstrate outside of the SEC Armadillo where Barclays was holding its 2024 AGM.

Studies estimate that the Amazon River’s flow has been reduced by up to 90 percent due to a lack of rainfall.

Coal is sorted into piles at a port in
the Chinese province of Zhejiang.

A home that was destroyed by
Hurricane Milton in Florida.

Left:
A BMX
rider at the Paris Olympics
performs a jump in front of the Luxor Obelisk at Place de la
Concorde.
Right:

Penitents of
the La Paz
brotherhood
take part in
the Holy Week
celebrations in Seville, Spain.

Right: Indian general elections
took place over seven phases that
eventually saw Narendra Modi
elected to a third consecutive term.
They were the world’s largest ever
elections and also saw the
highest participation by women
voters, at 312 million.
Below: A citizen casts their
ballot in the European election,
which saw the EPP win the most seats.

Left:
Protesters in
Bangladesh
stormed the
palace of the
country’s now
former Prime
Minister Sheikh
Hasina, ending
her 15-year
premiership.
Hasina fled the
country and
faces numerous
charges
for murder,
crimes against
humanity and
genocide.

Left: Rishi Sunak announces to the U.K. that he is calling a general election on July 4. His Conservative Party went on to be trounced by Keir Starmer and Labour. Right: A sinking ship. The Rubymar was struck by a Houthi rebel missile attack and sunk off the coast of Yemen, taking its cargo of fertilizer down with it, posing a significant environmental risk.

Left: Police clash with protestors in Georgia after the government decided to delay EU membership talks. Right: In a lightning advance, rebels in Syria overran Damascus and ended the decades-long rule of Bashar al-Assad. It is estimated that the Syrian civil war has claimed the lives of between 470,000 and 600,000 people over 13 years.

Ukrainian troops load their weapons ahead of fighting in Bakhmut.

Left: An aircraft sits on the flooded tarmac at Porto Alegre. Around 580,000 people were displaced by the flooding. Right: Displaced Palestinians move their belongings after an evacuation order from the Israeli army.

Left: Kenyan officials attend the funeral of Kelvin Kiptum, a runner who held three of the seven fastest marathon times. Right: Cricketers from the Ship Inn Cricket Club play a match on the beach at Elie in Scotland. They have played their for over 30 years.

Photos by: Jalaa Marey, K M Asad, Miguel J. Rodriguez, Carrillo, Andy Buchanan, Bashar Taleb, Jeff Pachoud, Cristina Quicler, Luis Acosta, Thomas Kienzle, Theo Rouby, Bakr al Kassem, Gagan Nayar, Giorgi Arjevanidze, Anselmo Cunh, Luis Tato/AFP & Peter Nicholls, Kate Green, Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images

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