These images show some of the big events that defined 2023.
PHOTO PACKAGE: Year-Ender 2023: Biggest News Events In Pictures
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Taliban fighters check the site of an explosion, near the Interior Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 1, 2023. A bomb exploded near a checkpoint at Kabul's military airport Sunday morning killing and wounding several people, a Taliban official said, the first deadly blast of 2023 in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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A cartoon of French President Emmanuel Macron is seen, during a protest to condemn the French magazine Charlie Hebdo for republishing cartoons insulting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in front of the French Embassy in Tehran, Iran, January 8, 2023. (West Asia News Agency/Majid Asgaripour)
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Houses destroyed by Russian forces are seen from above, near the the blowed-up bridge across Siverskiy-Donets river in the recently liberated village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, January 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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Waste floating in the Drina river near Visegrad, Bosnia, January 20, 2023. Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the rivers across three Western Balkan countries end up accumulating during high water season in winter and spring, behind a trash barrier in the Drina River in eastern Bosnia. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
