A look at the best news photos from around the world in 2004.
Photos of the year 2024 - part 2
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Firefighters carry the body of a passenger from the wreckage of an aircraft that crashed after it went off the runway at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Dec. 29, 2024. At least 179 people died when the Jeju Air jet belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway, erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at the ariport. Two people, both crew members, were pulled out of the wreckage alive. The plane, carrying 181 people, was returning from Bangkok.
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The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 lays on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Dec. 25, 2024. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said on Dec. 29, 2024, that the airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally, and criticized Moscow for trying to "hush up" the issue for days. The crash killed 38 of 67 people on board.
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Volunteers use flour to clean birds following an oil spill which was caused by an incident involving two tankers damaged in a storm in the Kerch Strait, in the village of Vityazevo near the Black Sea resort of Anapa, Russia, Dec. 20, 2024.
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Fayza Hider, whose son was in Sednaya prison since 2013, which was known as a slaughterhouse under Syria's Bashar al-Assad's rule, reacts while she searches for her son there, in Sednaya, Dec. 16, 2024.