2018 in pictures
With 2018 almost out of the door, TRT World has prepared a brief excursion through the year to refresh your memory, touching upon a few key instances when the world took notice.
A child sleeps in a bag in the village of Beit Sawa, eastern Ghouta, Syria (March 15, 2018).
From Syria’s unending woes to Yemen’s peace process, from seeds of truce between the Koreas to increasing internal unrest in the United States, 2018 was a fully-lived year. Let’s hope that 2019 is full of news, but those of a positive nature.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, UN special envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths, Foreign Minister of Sweden Margot Wallstrom and other officials pose for a photo during a press conference within the closing session of Yemen peace talks in Rimbo town of Stockholm, Sweden (December 12, 2018).
Yemen peace talks ended successfully in December 2018, resulting in a much-sought after truce in the war-ravaged country.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) shakes hands with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (R) at the Military Demarcation Line that divides their countries ahead of their summit at the truce village of Panmunjom on April 27, 2018.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South's President Moon Jae-in sat down to a historic summit on April 27 after shaking hands over the Military Demarcation Line that divides their countries in a gesture laden with symbolism.
A Palestinian man argues with an Israeli soldier during clashes over an Israeli order to shut down a Palestinian school near Nablus in the occupied West Bank (October 15, 2018).
The Israeli army continued taking an aggressive stance against Palestinians, which often end with hurting the latter.
Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the US, hold up a crying baby while they struggle to cross one of the gates of the Guatemala-Mexico international border bridge in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas state, Mexico, on October 19, 2018. Honduran migrants who have made their way through Central America were gathering at Guatemala's northern border with Mexico, despite President Donald Trump's threat to deploy the military to stop them entering the United States.
Multiple caravans headed north in the Americas, with some migrants ending their journey in Mexico and some in the United States. The road was hard and dangerous, and they were not always welcome at their destination, either.
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks at an event hosted by Middle East Monitor in London, Britain (September 29, 2018).
Dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October, a few days after this photo was taken. The cold blooded killing sparked global outrage but the Saudi kingdom is yet to take any concrete steps to punish the guilty. Turkey as well as the CIA say the killing was carried out at the behest of someone powerful in the upper echelons of Saudi's power corridors.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of France Emmanuel Macron stand during the presentation during the World Cup at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia (July 15, 2018).
France won the World Cup in 2018.
Demonstrators fly a blimp portraying U.S. President Donald Trump, in Parliament Square, during the visit by Trump and first lady Melania Trump in London, Britain (July 13, 2018).
Trump remained an unpopular figure in the United States and overseas, with Londoners even going so far as to constructing an orange Trump-shaped blimp for his arrival in July.
First lady Melania Trump walks to her vehicle as she arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, after visiting the Upbring New Hope Children Center run by the Lutheran Social Services of the South in McAllen, Texas (June 21, 2018).
US First Lady Melania Trump stirred up resentment when she wore a jacket that said “I DON’T CARE, DO U?” on the back while visiting a center for refugee children in Texas.
Supporters of the National Socialist Movement, a white nationalist political group, give Nazi salutes while taking part in a swastika burning at an undisclosed location in Georgia, US (April 21, 2018).
Meanwhile in the US a neo-Nazi movement was brewing, even though the white supremacists who made up its ranks called themselves “the alt-right”.
Victims and others look on as Rachael Denhollander speaks at the sentencing hearing for Larry Nassar, a former team USA Gymnastics doctor who pleaded guilty in November 2017 to sexual assault charges, in Lansing, Michigan, US, January 24, 2018.
Women in the United States started coming forward with their stories of being sexually assaulted and taken advantage of by men of higher rank and power. The #MeToo movement soon took hold around the world, allowing solidarity between women across all walks of life.
Flood water fills the entrance to a cave hindering the search efforts for 12 boys and their soccer coach who went missing in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province in northern Thailand, Friday (June 29, 2018).
In Thailand, the boys in the soccer team and their coach were rescued without any serious injury much to the joy of their families and the world who was watching.
A Rohingya refugee boy who is among those being relocated from a camp near the Bangladesh Myanmar border looks out from the window of a bus as he is brought to the Balukhali refugee camp, 50 kilometres (32 miles) from, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh (Jan. 18, 2018). Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed that they will try to complete the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled from violence in Myanmar within two years, Bangladesh's Foreign Ministry said.
The Rohingya have started going back to Myanmar albeit reluctantly. Their camps in Bangladesh lack regular amenities and healthcare is virtually nonexistent.
Sotheby's employees pose with the newly completed work by artist Banksy entitled "Love is in the Bin", a work that was created when the painting "Girl with Balloon" was passed through a shredder in a surprise intervention by the artist, at Sotheby's auction house in London on October 11, 2018, following the work's sale.
The buyer of a work by street artist Banksy that was partially destroyed moments after it sold has gone through with the purchase, Sotheby's auction house said on October 11, 2018. The painting "Girl with Balloon" was passed through a shredder hidden in the frame just after it went under the hammer for $1.4 million. The modified version has now been certified by Banksy's authentication body Pest Control as a new piece of work in its own right, entitled "Love is in the Bin".
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