This week a volcano erupted in New Zealand killing up to 16 people, Boris Johnson's Conservatives won the election in the UK, the climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year 2019 and France's transport strike and disruption to continue over the holiday period. Here's a look on this week in pictures carefully selected for you.

Iraqi demonstrators perform a somersault as they practice parkour during ongoing anti-government protests, near the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq. December 9, 2019.
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