2024 PICTURES OF THE YEAR

This photograph provided by Jiji Press shows a Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo's Haneda Airport after apparently colliding with a coast guard aircraft on January 2, 2024. STR / JIJI PRESS / AFP

Palestinian newly-weds Afnan Jibril (C) and Mustafa Shamlakh (L) are surrounded by guests and relatives at their wedding at the UNRWA School in the al-Salam neighbourhood of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on January 12, 2024. MAHMUD HAMS / AFP

This photograph taken from a position in southern Israel shows an Israeli tank rolling along the border with the Gaza Strip with damaged buildings within Gaza in the background, on January 19, 2024. JACK GUEZ / AFP

Mourners carry the body of a Palestinian man, killed during an Israeli army military operation in Tulkarem, during his funeral on January 19, 2024. MARCO LONGARI / AFP

A Ukrainian soldier reflected in a car mirror looks on as a Swedish-made Archer Howitzer operated by Ukrainian members of the 45th Artillery Brigade fires towards Russian positions, in the Donetsk region, on January 20, 2024. ROMAN PILIPEY / AFP

Two men stand next to a body of their relative on the ground, killed as a result of a missile strike, in Donetsk on January 21, 2024. STRINGER / AFP

An Israeli tank and other military vehicles guard a position as Palestinians flee Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 26, 2024. MAHMUD HAMS / AFP

Lydie Imhoff lies on her bed in a hospital room in Belgium, on February 1, 2024 as she waits for the doctor to arrive on the day of the euthanasia. - Lydie Imhoff, a 43 year-old French citizen suffering from hemiplegia and blindness from birth due to a perinatal stroke, has been authorized to travel from Besancon, France, to Belgium to undergo euthanasia on February 1, 2024. SIMON WOHLFAHRT / AFP

This aerial photograph shows homes along Scenic Drive standing on the edge of a cliff above the Pacific Ocean after a landslide following heavy rains in Dana Point, California, on February 15, 2024. PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP

Local residents attend a memorial ceremony under a destroyed bridge in Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on February 24, 2024, on the second anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. ROMAN PILIPEY / AFP

Ten-year-old Palestinian boy, Yazan al-Kafarneh, displaced from Beit Hanun and suffering from a pre-existing condition, lies on a hospital bed at Al-Awda clinic in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on February 29, 2024. Yazan died on March 4, 2024 from severe malnourishment and insufficient healthcare with the lack of needed medication. EYAD BABA / AFP

The body of a Palestinian killed in an early morning incident when residents rushed toward aid trucks in Gaza City is carried on a donkey pulled cart on February 29, 2024. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP

The body of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen during the funeral service at the Mother of God Quench My Sorrows church in Moscow's district of Maryino on March 1, 2024. DMITRY LEBEDEV / Kommersant Photo / AFP

Mourners watch as medical personnel prepare the bodies of 47 Palestinians that were taken and later released by Israel during a mass funeral in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 7, 2024. SAID KHATIB / AFP

A Palestinian woman assists an injured man outside Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, following Israeli bombardment, in the southern Gaza Strip on March 13, 2024. SAID KHATIB / AFP

This photograph shows the skyline of Reykjavik against the backdrop of orange coloured sky due to molten lava flowing out from a fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula, the fourth eruption to hit the area since December, north of the evacuated town of Grindavik, western Iceland on March 16, 2024. HALLDOR KOLBEINS / AFP

A young Palestinian man injured in Israeli bombardment lies on the floor as he awaits medical attention at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on March 15, 2024. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP

People walk past the body of a man shot dead by unidentified armed men on the night of March 27 as gang violence intensifies in Port-au-Prince on March 28, 2024. CLARENS SIFFROY / AFP

Tanzanian driver Yasin Nasser loses control of his Ford Fiesta Mk II with Ugandan co-driver Ali Katumba as their vehicle rolls during the World Rally Championship (WRC) Safari Rally Kenya Special Stage 7 (SS7) in Naivasha, on March 29, 2024. LUIS TATO / AFP

Protesters carry placards in front of the Defence Ministry during a gathering by relatives of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attacks by Hamas militants, in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, on March 30, 2024. JACK GUEZ / AFP

Sulan, a migrant from Venezuela, is comforted by her daughter as she cries while retelling her journey to reach El Paso, in Texas on April 2, 2024. CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA / AFP

Relatives of victims of the October 7 attacks visit an installation bearing the photos of their loved ones who were killed or kidnapped during the attacks, at the site of the Nova festival, in Re'im, southern Israel on April 2, 2024. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP

A Ukrainian infantry soldier of the 23rd Mechanized Brigade sits as he waits to deploy toward the frontline in the Avdiivka direction, in the Donetsk region, on April 3, 2024. ROMAN PILIPEY / AFP

A US Border Patrol officer waits for aid for a sick person as dozens of asylum seekers wait for US Border Patrol agents near the US-Mexico border in Campo, California, on April 4, 2024. DAVID SWANSON / AFP

Local residents ride past a building damaged by an earthquake that damaged dozens of buildings and prompted tsunami warnings, in Hualien on April 4, 2024. SAM YEH / AFP

People rush to landing humanitarian aid packages dropped over the northern Gaza Strip on April 23, 2024. - / AFP

A couple sit on Tourkovounia hill, as southerly winds carry waves of Saharan dust in Athens, on April 23, 2024. ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP

Migrant's seeking asylum in the United States travel on freight cars of the Mexican train known as "The Beast" as they arrive at the border city of Ciudad Juarez, in Chihuahua state, Mexico on April 24, 2024. HERIKA MARTINEZ / AFP

Inuit professional bear hunter Martin Madsen, 28, closes his eyes as he rides his dog sled back from the ice edge, where sea ice meets the open ocean, in Ittoqqortoormiit, on the frozen Scoresbysund Fjord, on April 25, 2024. OLIVIER MORIN / AFP

A Sudanese migrant reacts on the shore after leaving a smuggler's boat, which was punctured by French police officers to prevent migrants from embarking in an attempt to cross the English Channel, on the beach of Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France on April 26, 2024. SAMEER AL-DOUMY / AFP

People travel towards a polling station to cast their ballot during the second phase of voting in India's general election, in Gashbari village, Darrang district of Assam State, on April 26, 2024. BIJU BORO / AFP

This aerial photo shows a fisherman collecting dead fish, caused by renovation works and ongoing hot weather conditions, from a reservoir in southern Vietnam's Dong Nai province on April 30, 2024. STR / AFP

Servicemen of the "Achilles" Battalion, from the 92nd assault brigade of the Ukrainian Army, check a Vampire hexacopter drone after a flight mission over a frontline near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, on May 1, 2024. GENYA SAVILOV / AFP

Demonstrators set up a barricade to block the side entrance of Georgian Parliament during a rally against a controversial "foreign influence" bill, after parliament advanced the measure that Brussels had warned would harm Tbilisi's long-standing European aspirations, in Tbilisi on May 1, 2024. GIORGI ARJEVANIDZE / AFP

An Israeli tank is stationed atop a sand mound near the border with the Gaza Strip on May 2, 2024. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP

A wounded pro-government militiaman sits in a hospital in Kanyabayonga, the last town before the front line 10 km to the south between the Congolese army and the M23 rebellion, in southern Lubero territory, North Kivu province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 4, 2024. ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP

Einav holds a sign identifying her son Matan Zangauker (24), one of the hostages taken captive by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip during the October 7 attacks, as she stands on the roof of a car during a demonstration by hostages' relatives and supporters in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on May 6, 2024. JACK GUEZ / AFP

Cadets visit the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, also known as the Victory Museum, at Poklonnaya Hill in western Moscow on May 8, 2024. NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP

A woman wades through flood waters at an inundated residential area in Garissa, on May 9, 2024. LUIS TATO / AFP

US singer Taylor Swift performs on stage at the Paris La Defense Arena as part of her 'The Eras Tour', in Nanterre, north-western France, on May 9, 2024. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP

People walk along a flooded street in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on May 9, 2024. ANSELMO CUNHA / AFP

Pope Francis reacts as he participates in the Italian conference of the general State of Natality, in Rome on May 10, 2024. ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP

Mariana (C) reacts during the funeral of her son Nazary Gryntsevych, a Ukrainian soldier of the Azov Brigade callsign "Grinka", at a cemetery in Vinnytsia, on May 10, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ROMAN PILIPEY / AFP

A woman mourns over the body of a child, who died as a result of injuries during bombardment on a displaced persons camp, at a trauma ward at the Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on May 11, 2024. BASHAR TALEB / AFP

This aerial view shows visitors walking around portraits of people who were taken hostage or killed in the Hamas attack on the Supernova music festival on October 7, at the site of the festival near Kibbutz Reim, in southern Israel on May 13, 2024. JACK GUEZ / AFP

Crews conduct a controlled demolition of a section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge resting on the Dali container ship, in Baltimore on May 13, 2024. ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky poses for a photograph prior to an interview with AFP, at the Presidential Office in Kyiv, on May 17, 2024. ROMAN PILIPEY / AFP

This aerial view shows an aircraft on the tarmac of the flooded Salgado Filho International Airport, in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, on May 20, 2024. ANSELMO CUNHA / AFP

Argentine President Javier Milei (C) dances during the presentation of his new book "Capitalism, Socialism, and the Neoclassical Trap" at the Luna Park stadium in Buenos Aires on May 22, 2024. LUIS ROBAYO / AFP

Two people ride a motorcycle as a Taiwanese Air Force Mirage 2000 fighter jet approaches for landing at an air force base in Hsinchu after China encircled Taiwan with naval vessels and military aircraft in war games exercises, in northern Taiwan on May 23, 2024. YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP

A Palestinian woman holds the shrouded body of child killed in Israeli bombardment, at a health clinic in the area of Tel al-Sultan in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 26, 2024. EYAD BABA / AFP

Spain's Rafael Nadal gestures to the public as he leaves the court after losing against Germany's Alexander Zverev in their men's singles match on Court Philippe-Chatrier on day two of The French Open tennis tournament at The Roland Garros Complex in Paris on May 27, 2024. ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT / AFP

Palestinians who returned briefly to the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip to check on their homes, run for cover after a school was hit by an Israeli strike on May 30, 2024. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP

A person throws a drink in the face of newly appointed leader of Britain's right-wing populist party, Reform UK, and the party's parliamentary candidate for Clacton, Nigel Farage, during his general election campaign launch in Clacton-on-Sea, eastern England, on June 4, 2024. BEN STANSALL / AFP

Tsavora Fencing Mtaani Club members take part in a fencing bout during a 'fencing mtaani', meaning 'fencing in the streets' in Swahili, training session in the Mathare informal settlement of Nairobi, on June 9, 2024. LUIS TATO / AFP

Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales, rides the Glass State Coach at Horse Guards Parade during the King's Birthday Parade "Trooping the Colour" in London on June 15, 2024. BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP

France's paralympic triple jumper Arnaud Assoumani poses in front of The Louvre Pyramide, designed by Ieoh Ming Pei, in Paris on April 20, 2024, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games. FRANCK FIFE / AFP

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (Center-R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) walk past children during a welcoming ceremony at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on June 19, 2024. VLADIMIR SMIRNOV / POOL / AFP

A child plays as women rest on a bench in front of residential buildings destroyed by shelling in Kostyantynivka, eastern Donetsk region, on June 22, 2024. ROMAN PILIPEY / AFP

The body of a dead man is seen inside a car following shelling in Pokrovsk, eastern Donetsk region, on June 24, 2024. ROMAN PILIPEY / AFP

A mother bids farewell to the body of her child who was killed in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment in al-Maghazi in the central Gaza Strip, at the morgue of the Aqsa Martyrs hospital, in Deir el-Balah on June 25, 2024. BASHAR TALEB / AFP

Kenyan Police officers and security personnel take positions to protect the Kenyan Parliament as protesters try to storm the building during a nationwide strike to protest against tax hikes and the Finance Bill 2024, in downtown Nairobi, on June 25, 2024. LUIS TATO / AFP

A tear gas canister explodes as protesters try to help injured people outside the Kenya Parliament during a nationwide strike to protest against tax hikes and the Finance Bill 2024, in downtown Nairobi, on June 25, 2024. LUIS TATO / AFP

Military police officers stand guard outside Quemado Palace at Plaza Murillo after an attempted "coup d'etat", in La Paz on June 26, 2024. JORGE BERNAL / AFP

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (C) raises his fist upon arrival at Canberra Airport in Canberra on June 26, 2024, after he pleaded guilty at a US court in Saipan to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate US national defence information. DAVID GRAY / AFP

Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, on June 27, 2024. JALAA MAREY / AFP

Demonstrators take part in a rally after the announcement of the results of the first round of French parliamentary elections, at Place de la Republique, in Paris on June 30, 2024. DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP

Britain's Labour Party leader Keir Starmer kisses his wife Victoria during a victory rally at the Tate Modern in London, early on July 5, 2024. JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP

French far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party's President Jordan Bardella speaks during the party's election night following the first results of the second round of France's legislative election, in Paris, on July 7, 2024. DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP

Ukrainian doctor Ihor Kolodka (C) stands amid the rubble of the destroyed building of Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital following a Russian missile attack, in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on July 8, 2024. ROMAN PILIPEY / AFP

Emergency and rescue personnel retrieve a wounded woman from the rubble of a residential building destroyed following a Russian aerial attack, in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, on July 8, 2024. ANATOLII STEPANOV / AFP

Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event after an apparent assassination attempt at Butler Farm Show Inc., in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. REBECCA DROKE / AFP

A Cuban fisherman prepares to fish on a makeshift raft in Havana Bay, on July 16, 2024. YAMIL LAGE / AFP

A Palestinian man carries the body of a child killed by Israeli bombardment outside the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis following strikes east of the city, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 22, 2024. BASHAR TALEB / AFP

Palestinians rush casualties to Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, following Israeli bombardment in the east of the city, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 22, 2024. BASHAR TALEB / AFP

The moon rises behind the Olympic rings displayed on the Eiffel Tower, in Paris on July 22, 2024, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. LOIC VENANCE / AFP

Women injured during Israeli bombardment arrive at the emergency ward at al-Nassr hospital in Khan Yunis, on the southern Gaza Strip on July 23, 2024. BASHAR TALEB / AFP

Rescuers paddle their boats along a flooded street amid heavy rains brought by Typhoon Gaemi, in Manila, on July 24, 2024. TED ALJIBE / AFP

Fireworks in the French national colours explode over Pont d'Austerlitz during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Paris, on July 26, 2024. DAMIEN MEYER / AFP

This photograph taken from an helicopter on July 26, 2024 in Paris shows an aerial view of the Eiffel Tower and the Olympics Rings illuminated during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. LIONEL BONAVENTURE / POOL / AFP

Torchbearers, French former sprinter Marie-Jose Perec and French judoka Teddy Riner, stand as the cauldron, with the Olympic flame lit, lifts off while attached to a balloon during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, at the Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries Garden), in Paris, on July 26, 2024. MOHD RASFAN / AFP

Brazil's Gabriel Medina reacts after catching a large wave in the 5th heat of the men's surfing round 3, during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Teahupo'o, on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti, on July 29, 2024. JEROME BROUILLET / AFP

Argentina's Jose Torres Gil takes part in a BMX freestyle training session during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Concorde, in Paris, on July 29, 2024. JEFF PACHOUD / AFP

Bronze medalist South Korea's Lim Jonghoon (L) takes a selfie picture with his mobile as he celebrates on the podium with: gold medalists China's Wang Chuqin (rear R) and China's Sun Yingsha (front L), silver medalists North Korea's Ri Jong Sik (2nd L), and North Korea's Kim Kum Yong (C) and bronze medallist and teammate South Korea's Shin Yubin (rear R) at the end of their mixed table tennis doubles competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, at the South Paris Arena in Paris, on July 30, 2024. JUNG YEON-JE / AFP

Athletes compete in the swimming race in the Seine during the women's individual triathlon at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in central Paris, on July 31, 2024. MARTIN BUREAU / AFP

France's Leon Marchand celebrates after winning the final of the men's 200m breaststroke swimming event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, west of Paris, on July 31, 2024. MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP

US' Simone Biles competes in the artistic gymnastics women's balance beam final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena in Paris, on August 5, 2024. LOIC VENANCE / AFP

This photograph taken from the Musee des Arts Decoratifs (MAD) shows the crowd pointing their phones towards the cauldron of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games during its takeoff as it is attached to a balloon, in the Tuileries garden in Paris, with the Eiffel tower in the background, on August 8, 2024. JOEL SAGET / AFP

Poles light flares during a rally to mark the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupiers, in Warsaw, Poland on August 1, 2024. SERGEI GAPON / AFP

Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, on August 4, 2024. JALAA MAREY / AFP

Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace in Dhaka on August 5, 2024. K M ASAD / AFP

This photograph shows veiled mannequins dressed in women's attire, at a shop in Kabul, on July 22, 2024. In Afghanistan's capital, shop windows display dazzling ball gowns and three-piece wedding suits with the face of each mannequin covered. WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP

Palestinians mourn over the body of a relative killed in an Israeli strike, ahead of their funeral in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 12, 2024. BASHAR TALEB / AFP

A Ukrainian military vehicle drives from the direction of the border with Russia carrying blindfolded men in Russian military uniforms, in the Sumy region, on August 13, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ROMAN PILIPEY / AFP

This photograph shows a Hezbollah UAV intercepted by Israeli air forces over northern Israel on August 25, 2024. JALAA MAREY / AFP

A man takes cover behind a column as an explosion propagates smoke and dust during an Israeli strike which reportedly targeted a school in the Zeitoun district on the outskirts of Gaza City, on September 1, 2024. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP

Palestinians receive cooked food rations as part of a volunteer initiative in a makeshift displacement camp in Mawasi Khan Yunis, in the besieged Gaza Strip, on September 3, 2024. BASHAR TALEB / AFP

Smoke billows from the Airport Fire in Rancho Santa Margarita, California on September 9, 2024. Wildfires fueled by soaring temperatures in the western United States have scorched thousands of acres, forcing hundreds of families to flee, US officials said September 9, 2024. PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP

A man rides a handmade raft through a flooded street following the passage of Hurricane Helene in Batabano, Mayabeque province, Cuba, on September 26, 2024. YAMIL LAGE / AFP

People look through the rubble of buildings which were levelled on September 27 by Israeli strikes that targeted and killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut's southern suburbs, on September 29, 2024. - / AFP

People take cover behind vehicles under a bridge along the side of a highway in Tel Aviv as sirens sounded in central Israel a day after the army launched ground operations into southern Lebanon, in Tel Aviv on October 1, 2024. JACK GUEZ / AFP

Relatives and friends mourn by the grave of Israeli soldier Eitan Itzhak Oster, killed in fighting in the northern border area with Lebanon, during his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on October 2, 2024. AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP

People stand on top of the remains of an Iranian missile in the Negev desert, near Arad, in the aftermath of an Iranian missile attack on Israel, on October 2, 2024. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (R) jumps on stage as he joins former US President and Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) during a campaign rally at the site of the former President's first assassination attempt, in Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5, 2024. JIM WATSON / AFP

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs, late on October 6, 2024. FABIO BUCCIARELLI / AFP

Palestinians walk on a dirt road lined with rubble from destroyed buildings in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City on October 7, 2024, on the first anniversary of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP

A portrait of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah sits amidst debris in the Rouweiss neighbourhood of Beirut's southern suburb on October 10, 2024, following overnight Israeli strikes. - / AFP

Starship's Super Heavy Booster is grappled at the launch pad during the Starship Flight 5 test in Starbase, near Boca Chica, Texas, on October 13, 2024. SERGIO FLORES / AFP

An injured Ukrainian soldier lies in a bed onboard a military evacuation train transporting Ukrainian servicemen wounded in frontline areas to hospitals, in an undisclosed location, on October 18, 2024. ROMAN PILIPEY / AFP

A rocket fired by an Israeli war plane approaches a building in Beirut's southern suburb of Shayah on October 22, 2024. (Photo by AFP) - / AFP

Gisele Pelicot poses for a photograph in Avignon on October 23, 2024, during the trial of her former partner accused of drugging her for nearly ten years and inviting strangers to rape her at their home in the small southern town of Mazan. CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP

Pedestrians stand next to piled up cars following deadly floods in Sedavi, south of Valencia, eastern Spain, on October 30, 2024. JOSE JORDAN / AFP

King Felipe VI of Spain (CR) is heckled by angry residents who throw mud and objects during his visit to Paiporta  in the aftermath of devastating deadly floods, in the region of Valencia, eastern Spain, on November 3, 2024. MANAURE QUINTERO / AFP

Supporters of US Vice President and Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris react during an election night event at Howard University in Washington, DC, on November 5, 2024. CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP

Former US President and Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures at supporters as he holds hands with former US First Lady Melania Trump during an election night event at the West Palm Beach Convention Center, in West Palm Beach, Florida, early on November 6, 2024. JIM WATSON / AFP

US Vice President Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris waves at supporters at the end of her concession speech at Howard University in Washington, DC, on November 6, 2024. SAUL LOEB / AFP