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PHOTO PACKAGE Year-Ender 2021: Biggest News Events In Pictures

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These images show some of the big events that defined 2021.

(27 PHOTOS BY AFP, AP, EPA-EFE, REUTERS)
The U.S. Capitol Building is stormed by a pro-Trump mob on Jauary 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
1 The U.S. Capitol Building is stormed by a pro-Trump mob on Jauary 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
Ela Gubbiotti hugs her partner Giancarlo Vannimartini, an anesthesiologist who has been hospitalized for 10 days, in a safe room where patients and relatives can hug each other protected by a plastic film screen set up inside the COVID-19 ward of the Ospedale dei Castelli Hospital in Ariccia, near Rome, Italy, on January 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) 
2 Ela Gubbiotti hugs her partner Giancarlo Vannimartini, an anesthesiologist who has been hospitalized for 10 days, in a safe room where patients and relatives can hug each other protected by a plastic film screen set up inside the COVID-19 ward of the Ospedale dei Castelli Hospital in Ariccia, near Rome, Italy, on January 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) 
Migrants and refugees of various African nationalities wait for assistance aboard an overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean Sea 122 miles off the coast of Libya as aid workers on the Spanish search and rescue vessel Open Arms approach on February 12, 2021.  (AP Photo/Bruno Thevenin)  Migration crises continued all over the world, from Honduras to Turkey, to Belarus and the Mediterranean. Migration crises continued all over the world, from Honduras to Turkey, to Belarus and the Mediterranean.
3 Migrants and refugees of various African nationalities wait for assistance aboard an overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean Sea 122 miles off the coast of Libya as aid workers on the Spanish search and rescue vessel Open Arms approach on February 12, 2021.  (AP Photo/Bruno Thevenin) 

Migration crises continued all over the world, from Honduras to Turkey, to Belarus and the Mediterranean. Migration crises continued all over the world, from Honduras to Turkey, to Belarus and the Mediterranean.
People draw hearts with their cellphones flashlights in support of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny and his wife Yulia Navalnaya, in Moscow, February 14, 2021. When the team of jailed Russia opposition leader Aleksei Navalny announced a protest in a new format, urging people to come out to their residential courtyards on Sunday and shine their cellphone flashlights, many responded with jokes and skepticism. After two weekends of nationwide demonstrations, the new protest format looked to some like a retreat. But not to Russian authorities, who moved vigorously to extinguish the illuminated protests planned for Sunday. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin) 
4 People draw hearts with their cellphones flashlights in support of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny and his wife Yulia Navalnaya, in Moscow, February 14, 2021. When the team of jailed Russia opposition leader Aleksei Navalny announced a protest in a new format, urging people to come out to their residential courtyards on Sunday and shine their cellphone flashlights, many responded with jokes and skepticism. After two weekends of nationwide demonstrations, the new protest format looked to some like a retreat. But not to Russian authorities, who moved vigorously to extinguish the illuminated protests planned for Sunday. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin) 

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