The Day in Photos – December 10 2022
A Ukrainian serviceman patrols area near the Antonovsky Bridge which was destroyed by Russian forces after withdrawing from Kherson, Ukraine, Thursday, December 8, 2022. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)
A TV tower lies in the park after beinf blown up by Russian forces in Kherson, Ukraine, Thursday, December 8, 2022. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)
A local resident leaves his home after Russian shelling destroyed an apartment house in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, December 7, 2022. (Photo by LIBKOS/AP Photo)
A woman takes a selfie at an artwork that was made by British street artist Banksy on a building destroyed by the Russian army in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, December 6, 2022. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)
Ukrainian servicemember escorts a local resident in Bakhmut, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Donetsk region, Ukraine on December 7, 2022. (Photo by Yevhen Titov/Reuters)
Servicemen of the Carpathian Sich Battalion are seen on a tank on a frontline, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, near the town of Lyman, Donetsk region, Ukraine on December 8, 2022. (Photo by Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)
Servicemen of the Carpathian Sich Battalion are seen at their positions on a frontline, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, near the town of Lyman, Donetsk region, Ukraine on December 8, 2022. (Photo by Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)
Ukrainian soldiers fire French MO-120-RT-61 120 mm rifled towed mortar at Russian positions in the frontline near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, December 6, 2022. (Photo by LIBKOS/AP Photo)
Local resident Zlata, 6, pets a dog as she stands at a gate with holes created by shrapnel near her house, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, Kherson region, Ukraine on December 7, 2022. (Photo by Anna Voitenko/Reuters)
Ukrainian servicemen clean their rifles as they take cover in a basement on the frontline of Bakhmut City, Ukraine, December 07, 2022. (Photo by Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
This combination of files pictures created on December 8, 2022 shows US' Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) basketball player Brittney Griner waiting for the verdict inside a defendants' cage during a hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, on August 4, 2022 and Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout waiting at a detention center of criminal court in Bangkok, on March 8, 2008. Moscow confirmed on December 8, 2022 it had exchanged US basketball star Brittney Griner, who had been jailed in Russia, for notorious arms trafficker Victor Bout who was serving a 25-year sentence in the United States. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina and Saeed Khan/AFP Photo)
Cherelle Griner (C), wife of Olympian and WNBA player Brittney Griner, speaks after U.S. President Joe Biden announced her release of from Russian custody, with Vice President Kamala Harris in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on December 08, 2022 in Washington, DC. Griner was released as part of a prisoner swap that involved Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
This picture taken on December 8, 2022 shows a statue of French war hero and former President General Charles de Gaulle in front of Metz train station, after it has been stained with red painting overnight. (Photo by Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP Photo)
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) gives a fist bump with a French gendarme as he arrives at the courthouse on the third day of the appeal hearing of a corruption trial at Paris courthouse on December 8, 2022. A French court on March 1, 2021 convicted former President Nicolas Sarkozy on charges of corruption and influence peddling, handing him a three-year prison sentence of which two years are suspended. Prosecutors called for him to be jailed for four years and serve a minimum of two, and asked for the same punishment for his co-defendants – lawyer Thierry Herzog and the judge Gilbert Azibert. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP Photo)
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Protesters who support the ousted president Pedro Castillo confront the Police on the outskirts of the Prefecture of Lima, where the now former president remains detained, in Lima, Peru, 07 December 2022. A small group of supporters and detractors of ousted Peruvian President Pedro Castillo clashed this 07 December in front of the center where the former president is being held in Lima, accused of attempting to carry out a self-coup. The Peruvian National Police (PNP) have had to intervene with tear gas and detain some of the protesters in order to cleary the central Alfonso Ugarte avenue. (Photo by Aldair Mejia/EPA/EFE)
Supporters of ousted President Pedro Castillo clash with police during a protest in Lima, Peru, Thursday, December 8, 2022. Peru's Congress voted to remove Castillo from office Wednesday and replace him with the vice president, shortly after Castillo tried to dissolve the legislature ahead of a scheduled vote to remove him. (Photo by Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)
A member of the Israeli border police points his weapon during a clash with Palestinians at Beit El, near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on December 8, 2022. (Photo by Mohamad Torokman/Reuters)
Pope Francis cries while speaking about Ukraine as he attends the Immaculate Conception celebration prayer in Piazza di Spagna in Rome, Italy on December 8, 2022. (Photo by Yara Nardi/Reuters)
A worker in protective gear disinfects his gloves as residents get their routine COVID-19 throat swabs despite authorities starting to ease some of the anti-virus controls in Beijing, Thursday, December 8, 2022. China is the last major country still trying to stamp out transmission of the virus while many nations switch to trying to live with it. As they lift restrictions, Chinese officials have also shifted to talking about the virus as less threatening a possible effort to prepare people for a similar switch. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)
A British Immigration Enforcement officer (L) and an Interforce security officer (2L), escort migrants, picked up at sea by an Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat whilst they were attempting to cross the English Channel, on the shore at Dungeness on the southeast coast of England, on December 9, 2022. (Photo by Ben Stansall/AFP Photo)
Office workers in London, watch the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's controversial documentary being aired on Netflix Thursday, December 8, 2022. Britain’s monarchy is bracing for more bombshells to be lobbed over the palace gates as Netflix releases the first three episodes of a new series. The show “Harry & Meghan” promises to tell the “full truth” about Prince Harry and his wife Meghan’s estrangement from the royal family. The series debuted Thursday. (Photo by Jonathan Brady/PA Wire via AP Photo)
The art installation “Grand Mix” by Moetu Basile and David Passegand (Inook) is seen on the Musee des Beaux-Arts during the festival of lights (Fetes des Lumieres) amid a worldwide energy crisis in Lyon, France on December 7, 2022. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. (Photo by Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
A floating nativity scene designed by local greengrocer Francesco Orazio brings Christmas to Venice's lagoon, near Burano island, in Venice, Italy on December 8, 2022. (Photo by Manuel Silvestri/Reuters)
A 5-metre replica of a devil burns during the annual celebration of the “Burning of the Devil”, a festivity associated with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception which honors the city's patron saint and marking the start of the Christmas season, in Guatemala City, Guatemala on December 7, 2022. (Photo by Sandra Sebastian/Reuters)
A diver wearing a Santa Claus outfit performs during a Christmas-themed underwater show at the Aqua Planet 63 aquarium in Seoul on December 8, 2022. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP Photo)
Divers perform during a Christmas-themed underwater show at the Aqua Planet 63 aquarium in Seoul on December 8, 2022. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP Photo)
The Ferris wheel “Roda Rico”, the largest attraction of its kind in Latin America, is debuted in Candido Portinari Park, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 08 December 2022. The Ferris wheel, whose name translates to “Rich Wheel”, is 91 meters high and features 42 cabins. (Photo by Isaac Fontana/EPA/EFE)
Gibbon Kent and his pack choose food from one of the boxes depicting flags of Croatia (R) and Brazil at the Zagreb Zoo on December 9, 2022, to predict the winner of the Qatar 2022 World Cup quarter final football match between Brazil and Croatia. (Photo by Denis Lovrovic/AFP Photo)
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The last full moon of the year known as the Cold Moon rises behind Galata tower in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, December 7, 2022. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)