People hold placards as they take part in a protest calling for the ouster of South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol outside the National Assembly in Seoul. (Photo: AFP)
China's chess grandmaster Ding Liren (L) and India's grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju (R) compete in game 14 of the 2024 FIDE World Championship in Singapore. (Photo: AFP)
This photograph taken in Moscow on December 9, 2024, shows front pages of some of Russia's national newspapers, dominated by stories about the fall of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. (Photo: AFP)
Japanese director Kenji Kamiyama poses on the red carpet upon arrival for the World premiere of the animated film "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim". (Photo: AFP)