A lioness opens up Christmas presents in her enclosure in Hagenbeck’s zoo in Hamburg, Germany.
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A dancer performs on a tree in temperatures below minus 37 degrees Celsius (minus 34.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in Mohe, Heilongjiang province, China.
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A Palestinian protester, dressed as Santa Claus, holds a Palestinian flag during a protest against the Israeli barrier, in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah.
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Journalists and police observe the destruction of about one ton of fireworks confiscated from illegal vendors before the Christmas and New Year holidays, in Lima, Peru.
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A man dressed as Santa Claus rides a Christmas decorated vehicle in Jiyeh, south Lebanon.
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Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer (C) attends a meeting with Brazil’s Senate President Renan Calheiros (centre, R) and Planning Minister Romero Juca (centre, L) in Brasilia, Brazil.
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Anti-government demonstrators gesture atop a press car of Tv Record as they attend a demonstration against a constitutional amendment, known as PEC 55, that limits public spending, in front of Brazil’s National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil.
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Akram Abu al-Foz decorates a Christmas tree with empty shells which he painted, in the rebel held besieged city of Douma, in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria.
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An Indian girl fishes with bare hands on the dried bed of the River Tawi in Jammu, India. The river is considered holy, as are most rivers in India.
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People are silhouetted as they walk through a light installation titled “Universal Journey” comprising of 824,961 light bulbs at the Universal Studios Singapore as part of celebrations in the lead up to Christmas in Singapore.
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An Indian farmer walks in his field enveloped by thick fog near Hisar, India.
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Kayaks, 7, poses for a picture holding toy gun in a camp where Christians displaced by Islamic State militants are living, in Irbil, Iraq.
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