Here's a look at some of this week's top news photos from around the world as selected by The Canadian Press editors.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and MP Rachel Bendayan place white roses on a table during a ceremony to honour the victims of the 1989 Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, Friday, December 6, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe is recognized by the Speaker of the House of Commons following Question Period, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre takes part in a press conference at a downtown hotel in Ottawa on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
A Palestinian boy pushes a wheelchair carrying jerrycans and plastic bottles with water at a camp for displaced people in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Firefighters battle the Franklin Fire in Malibu, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
The ancient relic that many Christians revere as Jesus Christ's "Crown of Thorns" sits in its reliquary as it returns to Notre Dame Cathedral, five years after it was saved from the flames of the cathedral's devastating 2019 fire, in Paris, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a Time magazine Person of the Year event at the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
An Indigenous Naga tribal sings during the Hornbill Festival in Kisama, on the outskirts of Kohima, capital of the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Syrians wave "revolutionary" Syrian flags during a celebratory demonstration following the first Friday prayers since Bashar Assad's ouster, in Damascus' central square, Syria, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)