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BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 31: A CR450-AF high-speed bullet train, featuring an eight-car formation with four powered and four non-powered carriages, is seen on December 31, 2024 in Beijing, China. Prototypes of the CR450 bullet train, with a test speed of up to 450 kilometers per hour and an operational speed of 400 kilometers per hour, were debuted in Beijing on December 29. (Photo by Jia Tianyong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
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Ezra Frech of the United States of America competes in the Men's 100m - T63 Final at Stade de France during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, France, on September 2, 2024. (Photo by Mauro Ujetto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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France's President Emmanuel Macron (C), French Secretary of State for Francophonie and International Partnerships Thani Mohamed Soilihi (L), Director General of the Mayotte Regional Health Agency (ARS) Dr Sergio Albarello (2-R) and Mayotte's Prefect François-Xavier Bieuville (R) visit the Mayotte Hospital Centre in Mamoudzou, on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, on December 19, 2024, following the cyclone Chido's passage over the archipelago. French President Emmanuel Macron on December 19, 2024, arrived in Mayotte to assess the devastation wrought by Cyclone Chido on the Indian Ocean archipelago, as rescuers raced to search for survivors, an AFP journalist said. Macron's plane landed at 10:10 am local time (0710 GMT) with some twenty doctors, nurses and civil security personnel on board, as well as four tonnes of food and sanitary supplies. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Gisele Pelicot arrives with her lawyer Stephane Babonneau (R) at the courthouse in Avignon on December 19, 2024, as the verdict is expected in the trial of her ex-husband, with 50 others, accused of drugging her and orchestrating multiple rapes over nearly a decade. A court in the French southern town of Avignon is trying Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree, for repeatedly raping and enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife Gisele Pelicot in her own bed over a decade. Fifty other men, aged between 26 and 74, are also on trial for alleged involvement, in a case that has horrified France. (Photo by Clement MAHOUDEAU / AFP) (Photo by CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
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A man sits in the backyard of a house in the aftermath of Cyclone Chid in Pamandzi, Mayotte, France, on December 17.
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Ezra Frech of the United States of America competes in the Men's 100m - T63 Final at Stade de France during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, France, on September 2, 2024. (Photo by Mauro Ujetto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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