January 12, 2024

Police officers use shovels to work through the ruins of a popular shopping area that was destroyed by fire in the city of Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, after a major 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck the region on New Year's Day. 

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Vice Chief of the Defence Staff, Major General Gwyn Jenkins, left, are shown damaged buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, ahead of meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to announce a major new package of military aid to Ukraine.

Carpenters and workers stand for a picture during the ceremony of the traditional bouquet of flowers to celebrate the end of the rebuilding of the medieval choir framework of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, which was badly damaged by a fire in 2019, in Paris, France.

Team Nasser Racing's Qatari driver Nasser Al-Attiyah and his French co-driver Mathieu Baumel steer their car in the dunes during the second part of the 48h-chrono stage of the Dakar rally 2024, between Shubaytah and Shubaytah, Saudi Arabia.

Pro-Palestinian protesters gather near the International Court of Justice (ICJ), on the day judges hear a request for emergency measures by South Africa to order Israel to stop its military actions in Gaza, in The Hague, Netherlands.

This image from above shows terraced hills at Helin village in Anqing, in eastern China's Anhui province.

Sergei Udaltsov, Russian left-wing political activist and critic of President Vladimir Putin, stands in a cage in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia.

Indian Air force Surya Kiran aerobatics team rehearses for an air show over Marine Drive in Mumbai, India.

People shop for meat at a market in Shenyang in northeastern China's Liaoning province.

Houthi fighters brandish weapons during a protest following U.S. and British forces strikes, in the Houthi-controlled capital of Sanaa, during the ongoing battles between Israel and the militant Hamas group in Gaza.

Members of the Army search a man during a patrol in the Lucha de los Pobres neighborhood in southern Quito, as Ecuador is in a "state of emergency" since the prison escape of one of the country's most powerful drug bosses.

Monkeys climb on a lamp post at Pashupatinath in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Ukrainian civilians take part in the final exercise of a five-day basic military training, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near Kyiv, Ukraine.