A statue depicting the late Syrian President Hafez Assad is seen destroyed on the top of a mount in Dayr Atiyah.

Teams salvage an engine of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft which crashed and burst into flames Dec. 29, 2024, killing nearly everyone onboard, at Muan International Airport, in Muan.

A man breaks ice to move his boat on the partially frozen Dal lake in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir.

Revelers take part in a New Year's day swim in Lake Geneva with its 7.3 degree celsius waters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge during New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 31, 2024.

Firefighters carry the body of a passenger from the wreckage of an aircraft that crashed after it went off the runway at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Dec. 29, 2024. At least 179 people died when the Jeju Air jet belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway, erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at the ariport. Two people, both crew members, were pulled out of the wreckage alive. The plane, carrying 181 people, was returning from Bangkok.

Police use water cannon to disperse ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocking a street during a protest against army recruitment in Jerusalem, June 30, 2024. Israel's Supreme Court ordered the government to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men into the army, a landmark ruling seeking to end a system that has allowed them to avoid enlistment into compulsory military service.

Hindu priests perform prayers on the banks of the Ganges River at Assi Ghat on a foggy winter morning in Varanasi, India. (Photo by Niharika KULKARNI / AFP)

Aisha Rana Zhafirah reacts while visiting the Ulee Lheue mass grave, where victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami are buried, in Banda Aceh, Aceh, Indonesia. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi message and blessing to the city and the world from the main balcony of St. Peter's basilica as part of Christmas celebrations, at St. Peter's square in the Vatican, Dec. 25, 2024.

Pope Francis opens the Holy Door to mark the opening of the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, or Jubilee, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.

Researchers stand behind glass fencing as they show the carcass of a baby mammoth, which is estimated to be over 50,000 years old and was found in the Siberian permafrost in the Batagaika crater in the Verkhoyansky district of Yakutia, in the laboratory of the Mammoth Museum at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia. REUTERS/Roman Kutukov

Syrians look at photos of people reported to be missing, by members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's army or a pro-government militia, at the Marjeh square in Damascus.

Lawmakers from the main opposition Kuomintang, in white, try to break into Parliament where the Democratic Progressive Party occupied the night to avoid the passing of controversial bills at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei.

France's president Emmanuel Macron embraces a woman as he speaks with local residents during his visit at the kavani district in Mamoudzou, on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, aftermath of the cyclone Chido.