December 18, 2020

Palestinian protesters use slingshots against Israeli soldiers during clashes, at the outskirts of the West Bank village of Mughayer, north of Ramallah.

The hand of an activist is glued to a revolving door of one of the entrances to Schiphol Airport, near Amsterdam, Netherlands.

A group of schoolboys is escorted by Nigerian military and officials following their release after they were kidnapped last week, in Katsina, Nigeria.

Newborn conjoined twins lie in an incubator at the child intensive care unit of al-Sabeen hospital in Yemen's capital Sanaa. The boys, born in war-ravaged Yemen, are in critical condition and in need of treatment abroad, according to the hospital.

A mask-clad Egyptian policeman rides a camel in front of the Giza Pyramids on the southwestern outskirts of the Egyptian capital Cairo.

People push a half-submerged tricycle through a flooded street due to heavy rains caused by tropical depression Vicky in San Francisco town, Agusan del sur province on the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines.

An elderly woman sits in the living room of a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain. Some of Spain's regions are tightening health restrictions for the holidays with new cases already on the rise after remitting in recent weeks.

Austria's Tamara Tippler is engulfed in snow as she gets to the finish line after completing an alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill, in Val d'Isere, France.

Sikh youth perform "Gatka," an ancient form of Sikh martial arts, during a religious procession on the eve of martyrdom day of the ninth Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur in Amritsar, India.

Volcanic lightning over Mount Sakurajima is pictured from Tarumizu city, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan, Dec. 17, 2020.