An aerial view of a remaining pool at the edge of a hillside landslide brought on by heavy rains, which caused four ocean view apartment buildings to be evacuated and red-tagged due to unstable conditions, on March 16, 2023 in San Clemente, California. Weeks of rains loosened the soil in Orange County which tumbled down near railroad tracks that run next to the beach below. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
As 2023 comes to a close and before 2024 is upon us, we look back at the year in photos.
Construction workers climb onto the roof of a destroyed church in the village of Bohorodychne, Donetsk region on January 4, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Bohorodychne came under heavy attack by Russian forces in June 2022. On August 17, 2022, the Russian forces captured the village. The Armed Forces of Ukraine announced on September 12, 2022, that they took back the control over the village. A few residents came back to restore their destroyed houses. (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)Supporters of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro invade Planalto Presidential Palace while clashing with security forces in Brasilia on January 8, 2023. Hundreds of supporters of Brazil’s far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro broke through police barricades and stormed Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court, in a dramatic protest against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s inauguration the week prior. (Photo by SERGIO LIMA/AFP via Getty Images)Protesters march in Paris during a rally on a second day of nationwide strikes and protests over the government’s proposed pension reform on January 31, 2023. France braced for major transport blockages, with mass strikes and protests hitting the country for the second time in a month in objection to the planned boost of the age of retirement from 62 to 64. On January 19, some 1.1 million voiced their opposition to the proposed shake-up — the largest protests since the last major round of pension reform in 2010. (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images)Travis Kelce (87) and Patrick Mahomes (15) of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrate after defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium on February 12, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona. Kelce would later make headlines again for his relationship with Taylor Swift. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)A destroyed building is seen in on February 13, 2023 in Nurdagi, Turkey. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Gaziantep, Turkey, followed by another 7.5-magnitude tremor. The quakes caused widespread destruction in southern Turkey and northern Syria and killed more than 50,000 people. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)An aerial view of a remaining pool at the edge of a hillside landslide brought on by heavy rains, which caused four ocean-view apartment buildings to be evacuated and red-tagged due to unstable conditions on March 16, 2023, in San Clemente, California. Weeks of rains loosened the soil in Orange County, and it tumbled down near railroad tracks that run next to the beach below. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Candles are lit during a vigil outside Mexican immigration facilities where at least 38 migrants died in a fire in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, on March 28, 2023. A fire believed to have been started by migrants protesting against their deportation killed at least 38 people at the detention center near the U.S. border, authorities said on March 28, 2023, prompting demands for justice. The blaze broke out late March 27 at the National Migration Institute (INM) facility, prompting the mobilization of firefighters and dozens of ambulances. (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images)Former U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom with his attorneys Joe Tacopina and Boris Epshteyn (R) during his arraignment at the Manhattan Criminal Court April 4, 2023, in New York City. Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts stemming from hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election and making false statements to cover up other crimes. With his indictment, Trump became the first former U.S. president in history to be charged with a criminal offense. Trump faced a total of 91 indictments in 2023. (Photo by Andrew Kelly-Pool/Getty Images)Samuel Altman, CEO of OpenAI, appears for testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on May 16, 2023, in Washington, DC. The committee held an oversight hearing to examine artificial intelligence. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Angelina Kopayeva, 12, shows a picture of her family on June 7, 2023,in Kherson, Ukraine. The Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power plant, on the Dnipro river in the southern Kherson region, were destroyed, forcing downstream communities to evacuate due to risk of flooding. The cause of the dam’s collapse had not been confirmed, with Russia and Ukraine accusing each other of its destruction. The Dnipro river has served as a frontline between the warring armies following Russia’s retreat from Kherson and surrounding areas last autumn. The dam and plant had been under the control of Russia, which occupies a swath of land south and southeast of the river. (Photo by Alex Babenko/Getty Images)Smoky haze from wildfires in Canada diminishes the visibility of the Empire State Building on June 7, 2023, in New York City. New York topped the list of most polluted major cities in the world that night, as smoke from the fires blanketed the East Coast, setting the stage for a hot summer across North America. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)In this U.S. Coast Guard handout image, a Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina HC-130 Hercules airplane flies over the French research vessel L’Atalante, approximately 900 miles east of Cape Cod during the search for the 21-foot submersible Titan June 21, 2023, in the Atlantic Ocean. The unified command was searching for five people after the Canadian research vessel Polar Prince lost contact with the submersible during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic on June 18, 2023. The story gripped the U.S. for weeks in the summer. (Photo by U.S. Coast Guard via Getty Images)U.S. actor Jason Sudeikis joins members of the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild as they walk a picket line outside NBC Universal in New York City on July 14, 2023. Tens of thousands of Hollywood actors went on strike at midnight July 13, 2023, effectively bringing the giant movie and television business to a halt as they joined writers in the first industry-wide walkout for 63 years. The strikes went on for months before the parties reached deals. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)Cosplayers hold ‘Barbenheimer’ signs outside the convention center during San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California, on July 21, 2023. (Photo by Chris Delmas / AFP) (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images)Protesters gesture during a demonstration on Niger’s Independence Day in Niamey on August 3, 2023. Security concerns built ahead of planned protests in coup-hit Niger, with France demanding safety guarantees for foreign embassies as some Western nations reduced their diplomatic presence. Military coups including the one in Niger and another in Gabon, plus contested elections elsewhere, had Africa on edge in 2023. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)U.S. singer-songwriter Taylor Swift performs during her Eras Tour at Sofi stadium in Inglewood, California, August 7, 2023. Swift and Beyoncé both found massive success on tour in 2023. (Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)An aerial view shows destroyed homes and buildings that burned to the ground around the harbor and Front Street in the historic Lahaina Town in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui on August 10, 2023. Fast-moving wildfire turned Lahaina to ashes with 100 confirmed deaths. The fires began burning early August 8, 2023, scorching thousands of acres and putting homes, businesses and 35,000 lives at risk on Maui, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency said in a statement. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)Spanish players celebrate after the team’s victory in the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 Final match between Spain and England at Stadium Australia on August 20, 2023, in Sydney, Australia. Spain won its first Women’s World Cup 1-0, though the accomplishment was partially overshadowed by the Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales grabbing his crotch near Spain’s Queen Letizia and her 16-year-old daughter, Princess Sofia, then kissing Spain midfielder Jenni Hermoso on the lips without consent. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)National Disaster Response Force personnel search for victims at the site of a landslide after a temple collapsed due to heavy rains in Shimla on August 14, 2023. At least 24 people were killed, nine of them in the collapse, and dozens more were feared missing after intense rains caused floods and landslides in India, officials said. The 2023 monsoon season brought a number of devastating landslides to India. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)Flames from a wildfire are seen behind the Parthenon Temple atop the Acropolis hill in Athens on August 23, 2023. Hundreds of wildfires across Greece caused death and destruction, forcing evacuations and polluting the air. (Photo by ANDREA BONETTI/SOOC/AFP via Getty Images)In this handout image provided by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, former U.S. President Donald Trump poses for his booking photo at the Fulton County Jail on August 24, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump was booked on 13 charges related to an alleged plan to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Trump and 18 others facing felony charges were ordered to turn themselves in to the Fulton County Jail. (Photo by Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images)A woman sits among the rubble of her village that was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake on September 11, 2023, in Douzrou, Morocco. Nearly 3,000 people were reported dead following the large quake that struck below villages in the High Atlas mountains south of Marrakesh. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)Overturned cars lay among other debris caused by flash floods in Derna, eastern Libya, on September 11, 2023. Flash floods and two dams collapsing devastated the region, killing more than 4,000. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)Family and friends of fallen Israel Defense Forces soldier Afik Rozental, who died in a battle with the Hamas terrorist group, attend his funeral on October 9, 2023, in Kfar Menachem, Israel. On October 7, Hamas, which has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada and the European Union, launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza by land, sea and air, killing 1,200 people and wounding more than 2,800. Israeli soldiers and civilians were also kidnapped by Hamas and taken into Gaza. The attack prompted a declaration of war by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ongoing retaliatory strikes by Israel on Gaza, killing hundreds. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)Palestinian emergency services and local citizens search for victims in buildings destroyed during Israeli air raids on October 18, 2023, in Khan Yunis, Gaza. Gazans were evacuating to the south as advised by the Israeli government, ahead of an Israeli ground offensive. Israel sealed off Gaza, leaving the entire population without fuel, water or aid, and launched sustained retaliatory air strikes, which killed more than 2,000 people and displaced some 400,000, after a large-scale attack by Hamas. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)(L-R) Adam Jones, Sadie Huntley, and Skylar Meserve attend a candlelight vigil to honor the victims of mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, on October 28, 2023. Eighteen people were killed at a bowling alley and a restaurant; the gunman, Robert Card, was later found dead. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Survivors sit in front of their damaged house in Khalanga of Nepal’s Jajarkot district on November 6, 2023. At least 157 people were killed in isolated western districts of the Himalayan country when the 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit late November 3. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)Newly elected President of Argentina, Javier Milei of La Libertad Avanza, speaks after the polls closed in the presidential runoff on November 19, 2023, in Buenos Aires. The presidential election runoff to succeed Alberto Fernandez came as Argentina has been hit hard by inflation. (Photo by Tomas Cuesta/Getty Images)Palestinian children queue to receive a portion of food at a make-shift charity kitchen in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 8, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. (Photo by SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)Former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger attends the ceremony for the Henry A. Kissinger Prize on January 21, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. Kissinger died on Nov. 29. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)
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