• Children look at lights from inside their family car as they visit Luminna Fest, a drive-through Christmas light festival, during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Reuters
    Children look at lights from inside their family car as they visit Luminna Fest, a drive-through Christmas light festival, during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Reuters
  • A protester, surrounded by smoke of tear gas, gestures during a demonstration for 'social rights' and against the 'global security' draft law, which Article 24 would criminalise the publication of images of on-duty police officers with the intent of harming their 'physical or psychological integrity', in Paris. AFP
    A protester, surrounded by smoke of tear gas, gestures during a demonstration for 'social rights' and against the 'global security' draft law, which Article 24 would criminalise the publication of images of on-duty police officers with the intent of harming their 'physical or psychological integrity', in Paris. AFP
  • A man disguised as Santa Claus, suspended from the Sugar Loaf's Cable car, waves at visitors upon arrival to the Sugar Loaf mountain, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. AFP
    A man disguised as Santa Claus, suspended from the Sugar Loaf's Cable car, waves at visitors upon arrival to the Sugar Loaf mountain, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. AFP
  • A farmworker sits in the middle of the road near a blockade along the Pan-American South Highway, on the sixth day of protests by farmworkers, in Villacuri, Ica province, Peru. Farmworkers are demanding better pay and protesting clauses in a law that exempts them from benefits given other workers, including annual bonuses and vacations. AP Photo
    A farmworker sits in the middle of the road near a blockade along the Pan-American South Highway, on the sixth day of protests by farmworkers, in Villacuri, Ica province, Peru. Farmworkers are demanding better pay and protesting clauses in a law that exempts them from benefits given other workers, including annual bonuses and vacations. AP Photo
  • People walk by the Christmas tree that was placed in Piazza Venezia (Venice Square), downtown Rome. AP
    People walk by the Christmas tree that was placed in Piazza Venezia (Venice Square), downtown Rome. AP
  • US President Donald Trump gestures next to first lady Melania Trump after speaking at a campaign event for Republican US senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in Valdosta, Georgia, US. Reuters
    US President Donald Trump gestures next to first lady Melania Trump after speaking at a campaign event for Republican US senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in Valdosta, Georgia, US. Reuters
  • An Indonesian soldier evacuates a boy following floods in Lhokseumawe, Aceh, Indonesia. Reuters
    An Indonesian soldier evacuates a boy following floods in Lhokseumawe, Aceh, Indonesia. Reuters
  • People watch a performance on the eve of Saint Nicholas Day from their cars at a drive-thru theater amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Prague, Czech Republic. Reuters
    People watch a performance on the eve of Saint Nicholas Day from their cars at a drive-thru theater amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Prague, Czech Republic. Reuters

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World in focus - best photos for December 6, 2020

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

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