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A United States Customs and Border Protection officer searches immigrants before transporting them from the US-Mexico border on December 8, 2023, in Lukeville, Arizona. (John Moore via Getty Images)

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A Ukrainian soldier is placed in trenches retaken from the Russian army on the Vuhledar front line as the war between Russia and Ukraine continues in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on December 1, 2023. (Marek M. Berezowski/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Communal workers walk next to a crater and destroyed houses following a Russian shelling in Kyiv on December 11, 2023. (Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images)

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Escondida Copper Mine, Chile. (Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2021 via Getty Images)

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A Chinese Coast Guard ship sails near a Philippine vessel that was part of a convoy of civilian boats in the disputed South China Sea on December 10, 2023. (Photo by Ted Aljibe via Getty Images)