In Images | 24 moments that defined 2024 the best possible way
It’s time to look back at the year that was. Here are the top moments that shaped the world in 2024
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Lava crosses the main road to Grindavík and flows on the road leading to the Blue Lagoon, in Grindavík, Iceland, on February 8, 2024. A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted for the third time since December and sent jets of lava into the sky. AP
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Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Alexey Navalny, stands in a queue with other voters at a polling station near the Russian embassy in Berlin on March 17, 2024. Vladimir Putin won the polls, unsurprisingly, cementing his grip on power. AP
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The collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge lays on top of the container ship Dali, in Baltimore. The 1.6-mile bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River. Six construction workers were killed as they were repairing potholes on the bridge early in the morning. Reuters
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A police officer stands guard near a partially collapsed building a day after a powerful earthquake struck in Hualien City, eastern Taiwan in April. It was the island’s strongest earthquake in 25 years. AP
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Pro-Palestinian protesters barricade themselves inside Hamilton Hall, an academic building at Columbia University in New York, on April 30. Dozens of protesters were occupying the building, which law enforcement later cleared. Columbia was the epicenter of college demonstrations that began in April. AP
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi prostrates before Lord Ram at the Ram temple, in Ayodhya. It was in 2024 that the Ram Temple was finally thrown open to the crowds. PTI
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Britain’s Kate, Princess of Wales travels along The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony at Horse Guards Parade, London on June 15, 2024. This was the Princess of Wales’ first public appearance since her cancer diagnosis early this year. AP
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is greeted by supporters as he arrives at BJP headquarters in New Delhi. The BJP-led NDA gained victory in the national elections held in June. AP
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures after landing at RAAF air base Fairbairn in Canberra, Australia, on June 26 2024. Assange has returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing US military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga. AP
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Relatives mourn during the last rites of three members of their family who died in the stampede at the ‘satsang’ of Baba Narayan Hari alias Saakar Vishwa Hari Bhole Baba, in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh on July 2. More than 100 people were killed. PTI
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Britain’s Labour Party Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria waves to the crowds of supporters and media from the doorstep of 10 Downing Street in London, on July 5, 2024. Labour leader Starmer won the general election on July 4, and was appointed Prime Minster by King Charles III at Buckingham Palace, after the party won a landslide victory. AP
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After being shot during a campaign rally, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lies on the ground bleeding while being covered by US Secret Service on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania. AFP
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The moon is pictured with the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower ahead the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, France. Reuters
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Biden addresses the nation from the White House Oval Office on July 24, explaining his decision not to seek re-election. It’s the first time a one-term US president has dropped out of a re-election run in decades. AP
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Anti-government protesters display Bangladesh’s national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s palace in Dhaka on August 5. Hasina resigned and fled to neighbouring India. AFP
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A man falls down to death from a burning apartment window after Russia’s guided air bomb strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine on August 30, 2024. This year saw the Russia-Ukraine war completing 1,000 days with no signs of it ending anytime soon. AP
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A Palestinian walks past the rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli strikes, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 4, 2024. More than 45,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the war began on October 7, 2023. Reuters
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Protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, stand in front of the billboard showing late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as they rally to show support to Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen. Reuters
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A man walks through a street affected by floods in Valencia, Spain late October. Deadly flash floods ripped across southern and eastern Spain, where some areas received up to 12 inches of rain in just a few hours. The majority of deaths were in the Valencia region, which saw its heaviest rainfall in 28 years. AP
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A woman walks near the entrance as Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech for the 2024 presidential election on November 6, 2024, on the campus of Howard University in Washington. AP
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Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson, arrives at a helicopter pad after being extradited from Pennsylvania, as Mayor Eric Adams walks behind him, in New York. Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a manhunt that lasted several days. Reuters
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Children step on a toppled statue of former president Hafez al-Assad as people gather on a street in Sweida on December 13, to celebrate the collapse of his son Bashar al-Assad’s rule. Islamist-led rebels took Damascus in a lightning offensive on December 8, ousting president Bashar al-Assad and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. AFP
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A woman holds a placard “Thank you Gisele” outside the Palace of Justice during a women’s rights demonstration on December 14 in Avignon, southern France, where the trial of dozens of men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and rendered unconscious by her husband took place. AP
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays last respects to former prime minister Manmohan Singh during the latter’s state funeral, at the Nigambodh Ghat, in New Delhi on December 28. PTI
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