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Our world in photos: December 17

December 17, 2021 Michaela Keil
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ITALY — Alpine trek: A migrant from Guinea headed to France trekked into the mountains by the Italian border town of Claviere, in an attempt to cross the border undetected at night, on Dec. 11.
Photo: Daniel Cole/AP

 

NEW YORK — Lighting Liberty: Jeff Goldblum waved from a replica of the Statue of Liberty torch at RiseNY on Thursday, in New York.
Photo: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

 

BOSNIA — Migration fashion: Models walked on the catwalk inside the 19th century building City Hall in Sarajevo on Thursday, during the presentation of a collection dubbed “No Nation Fashion,” a migrant-made fashion brand project. At the fashion show, migrant models came out on the catwalks in designs meant to symbolize various stages of their journeys.
Photo: AP

 

CHILE — Closing rally: Republican Party presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast embraced a supporter during his closing campaign rally ahead of the presidential run-off election in Santiago, on Thursday.
Photo: Esteban Felix/AP

 

ITALY — World Cup race: Switzerland’s Ralph Weber sped down the course during an alpine ski, men’s World Cup super G, in Val Gardena, on Friday.
Photo: Gabriele Facciotti/AP

 

CONNECTICUT — Miss America: Miss Alaska Emma Broyles reacted after being crowned Miss America, on Thursday, at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville.
Photo: Jessica Hill/AP

 

KANSAS — Silhouette: The twin steeples of the Basilica of St. Fidelis were silhouetted against the rising sun on Friday, in Victoria. The historic Catholic church, built between 1908 and 1911, was nicknamed “Cathedral of the Plains” in 1912 by three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan.
Photo: Charlie Riedel/AP

 

NORTH KOREA — Anniversary: Citizens visited the bronze statues of their late leaders, Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong-Il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on Thursday, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the demise of Kim Jong-Il.
Photo: Cha Song Ho/AP

 

ISRAEL — Funeral: Mourners attended the funeral of Yehuda Dimentman, 25, who was killed in a shooting attack by a Palestinian gunman near the Jewish outpost of Homesh in the West Bank, on Friday. At least one Palestinian gunman opened fire Thursday night at a car filled with Jewish seminary students next to a West Bank settlement outpost, killing an Israeli man and lightly wounding two other people, Israeli officials said.
Photo: Moti Milrod/AP
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