Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev speaks during a meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Dec. 28, 2024, in connection with the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 that crashed near the Kazakhstan's airport of Aktau. Kazakhstan's Presidential Press Office via AP
This aerial view shows the remains of a destroyed monument to Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar al-Assad who died in 2000, in Deir Atiyah in the countryside of Damascus on Dec. 28, 2024. Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images
