In a year of contrasting extremes, Europe witnessed scorching heatwaves but also catastrophic flooding, withering droughts, violent storms and its largest wildfire (Photo: AFP)
Cars drive on the Bismarckstrasse road, a main entrance road in the German capital during rush hour time in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. (Photo: AP/Markus Schreiber)
Elite police officers from the BRI (Brigade de recherche et d'intervention) or Research and Intervention Brigade, leave after an operation near the Iranian consulate, April 19, 2024, in Paris. (Photo: AP)
An aerial view taken from a rescue helicopter, of migrants onboard a fishing vessel in the waters off the Peloponnese coast of Greece on June 13, 2023. (Photo: The Hellenic Coastguard/ AFP)
Visitors in front of the painting "Les Dindons" (The Turkeys - 1876) by French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926), at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris on March 22, 2024. (Photo: MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP)
Migrants rest after arriving at the border between Austria and Hungary near Heiligenkreuz, about 110 miles south of Vienna, Austria, Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. (Photo: AP)
French prosecutors have charged a 26-year-old schoolteacher on suspicion he translated religious chants into French for the Daesh group, the national anti-terror prosecutor's office said this week. (Photo: AFP)
Police investigators stand next to a crashed car that was carrying migrants in Morahalom, a town on the Hungary-Serbia border, Dec. 14, 2021. (Photo: AFP)
An aerial view taken from a rescue helicopter, of migrants onboard a fishing vessel in the waters off the Peloponnese coast of Greece on June 13, 2023. (Photo: The Hellenic Coastguard/ AFP)
South Africa's Ambassador to Palestine Shaun Byneveldt (3L) attends with Palestinians a live projection of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearing of the case brought by his country against Israel, Jan. 26, 2024 (Photo: ZAIN JAAFAR
