These images show some of the big events that defined 2020.
PHOTO PACKAGE Year-Ender: 2020: Biggest News Events In Pictures
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Mourners attend a funeral ceremony for Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and his comrades, who were killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike on Friday, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square in Tehran, January 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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Adelaide wildlife rescuer Simon Adamczyk is seen with a koala rescued at a burning forest near Cape Borda on Kangaroo Island, southwest of Adelaide, Australia, January 7, 2020. Experts fear Australia's bushfires could lead to half a billion animal deaths. (AAP Image/David Mariuz/via REUTERS)

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A member of a rescue team walks among debris from a plane belonging to Ukraine International Airlines, that crashed after a take-off from Iran's Imam Khomeini airport, on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran, January 8, 2020. (Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA)

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Excavators are seen at the construction site of a new hospital being built to treat patients from a deadly virus outbreak in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province, January 24, 2020. - China is rushing to build a new hospital in a staggering 10 days to treat patients at the epicentre of a deadly virus outbreak that has stricken hundreds of people, state media reported on January 24. (AFP)