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Photos of the day — December 21, 2016

Yahoo News Photo Staff

December 21, 2016 at 7:10 PM

Window cleaners in Toyko, Japan

Flowers and candles are placed near the Christmas market in Berlin

Pope Francis arrives to lead his Wednesday general audience at the Vatican

A man hangs Christmas decorations in Islamabad, Pakistan

A protester is accidentally set ablaze In Bathinda, India

Winter solstice revelers hug at Stonehenge near Amesbury, Britain

Jordanians mourn during a funeral in Shajara Village

Robert Durst appears in a Los Angeles court

A fireworks market lays in ruins in Tultepec, Mexcio

Police places concrete blocks at the entrance of a Christmas market in Berlin

Oilfields burn in Qayyara, Iraq

A Yazidi refugee child in Agios Athanasios, Greece

Migrants stand in a food line in Belgrade, Serbia

Changing the Guard ceremony outside Buckingham Palace in London

Outside the house of a suspected militant in Serpong, Indonesia

Peace rally in Karachi, Pakistan

Soldiers train in extreme cold in Heihe, China

Christmas light sculpture in Singapore

Multiple launch rocket system batteries firing contest in North Korea

A sea lion licks a treat at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo in Australia

Monument to the anti-communist resistance in Bucharest, Romania

Smog in Beijing, China

Philippine troops march in Quezon city

A Ring-tailed lemur sunbathes at the Melbourne Zoo, Australia

Father Christmas in London, England

Window cleaners dressed as Santa Claus and a reindeer pose for photographers while cleaning windows at a shopping mall in Tokyo’s Daiba bay area, Japan; flowers and candles are placed near the Christmas market in Berlin, Germany, after a truck plowed through a crowd at the Christmas market on Dec. 19; and Pope Francis arrives to lead his Wednesday general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican. (AP/Reuters)

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