World in focus - best photos for January 1, 2020

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

Skiers pause near restaurants at a ski resort that has had to close a number of slopes because of a lack of snow in Minamiuonuma, Japan. Getty Images

Migrant men carry firewood to their tent set up by a former railway station in Belgrade, Serbia. EPA

A general view shows the crowd and shops at Al Ataba, a popular market in central Cairo, Egypt. TPX

A US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet flies past Mount Fuji, Japan. Reuters

US Border Patrol agents conduct a training exercise in the Anapra area, in front of the wall that divides Sunland Park, New Mexico, US. AFP

Tourists wearing protective respiratory masks tour outside the Colosseo monument in downtown Rome, Italy. AFP

Officials remove the British flag at European Union Council in Brussels, Belgium. Reuters

A mural of jazz great Louis Armstrong is reflected in raindrops on a window, in Lexington, Ky. AP

Mourners pray on their knees around the coffin of environmental activist Homero Gomez Gonzalez at his wake in Ocampo, Michoacan state, Mexico. AP Photo

An Indian elderly commuter sits rides on a local train in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, Eastern India. EPA

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