Russian President Vladimir Putin flies into Syria, German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the Christmas market, Britain's Prince Harry attends 'Star Wars' London premiere. The world in pictures in a photo gallery by TASS
This week in photos: Putin’s Syria stopover, Merkel's market tour and 'Star Wars' premiere
The world in pictures in a photo gallery by TASS
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Russian President Vladimir Putin onboard a flight to Russia’s Hmeymim airbase in Syria. Putin later ordered Russian troops to start pulling out of Syria, December 11
© Mikhail Klimentyev/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS An installation artwork called Suspended, composed of items of clothing discarded by refugees on their arrival at Lesvos, by artist Arabella Dorman, at St James's Church on Piccadilly in London, December 13
© AP Photo/Tim Ireland Madame Tussaud's wax figures of British Prime Minister Theresa May and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson wearing a Christmas Jumper at Madame Tussauds in London, Britain, December
© EPA-EFE/ANDY RAIN What's Cooking! German Chancellor Angela Merkel lured to a bratwurst stall in Berlin as she visits the Christmas market on the Breitscheidplatz at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Germany, December 12
© AP Photo/Michael Sohn A woman passes by a menorah on Independence Mall in Philadelphia ahead of the second night of Hanukkah, USA, December 13
© AP Photo/Matt Rourke Indian fishermen who were arrested after allegedly straying into Pakistan's territorial waters, sit behind bars at a police station in Karachi, Pakistan, December 14. The two countries' maritime security forces often arrest each other's impoverished fishermen for allegedly violating the territorial waters where demarcation is not clear
© EPA-EFE/SHAHZAIB AKBER France's President Emmanuel Macron and Arnold Schwarzenegger take a selfie with young people in front of the Eiffel Tower illuminated in green, aboard a boat cruising on the Seine river back from the One Planet Summit, Paris, France, December 12
© AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool Military school students dance during their annual ball in Moscow, Russia, December 12
© AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko A staging of the pacification of Truck Factories (Fabryka Samochodow Ciezarowych) in Lublin on the 36th anniversary of the imposition of martial law by the communist authorities in Poland, December 13
© EPA-EFE/Wojciech Pacewicz A surfer riding a wave in the Ussuri Bay off Russky Island on the Russian Pacific Coast, December 10
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Russian space agency specialists help Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-05 space capsule about 150 km south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, December 14
© AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, Pool Britain's Prince Harry chats with an 8-year-old girl at the European premiere of 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' at the Royal Albert Hall, in central London, UK, December 12
© Eddie Mulholland/Pool Photo via AP The new and steepest funicular railway in the world, the Stoos Bahn, is ready for the opening ceremony after five years of construction, in Stoos, Switzerland, December 15
© EPA-EFE/URS FLUEELER Taronga Zoo shows giraffes enjoying Christmas-themed treats at Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia, December 14
© EPA-EFE/TARONGA ZOO The Geminids meteor shower during its peak, in the night sky over Tokarevsky Lighthouse on Egersheld Cape, Russia, December 13
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