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2022: A year in pictures

A visual timeline of key events defining the past 12 months.

ukraine war — Ukrainian emergency workers and volunteers carry a wounded pregnant woman from a maternity hospital damaged by an air attack in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]

From the horrors of war in Ukraine and major natural disasters to the reopening of the world after pandemic lockdowns and the World Cup in Qatar, photographers around the world have captured historic moments of the year 2022.

Go through our gallery below to see some of the most powerful photographs defining the last 12 months.

covid vaccine india — Arsha Begum receives the Covishield vaccine for COVID-19 from Fozia, a healthcare worker, during a COVID-19 vaccination drive in Budgam, southwest of Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, on January 11. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]

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china olimpics — Matej Svancer of Austria trains ahead of the men's freestyle skiing big air qualification round of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing on February 7. [Matt Slocum/AP Photo]

palestine — A Palestinian woman gestures in front of Israeli troops during a protest in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on February 9. [Mussa Qawasma/Reuters]

Evacuees cross a destroyed bridge as they flee the city of Irpin — Evacuees cross a destroyed bridge as they flee the city of Irpin, northwest of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, on March 7. [Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP]

Shireen Abu Akleh — A makeshift memorial at the site where Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on May 11. [Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo]

USA Texas shooting — Twenty-one empty chairs are seen outside a daycare centre as a memorial for the victims killed in an elementary school shooting in Uvalde, in the US state of Texas, on May 27. [Dario Lopez-Mills/AP Photo]

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abe shooting japan — A man, believed to be a suspect fatally shooting former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is held by police officers at Yamato Saidaiji Station in Nara, Nara Prefecture on July 8. [The Yomiuri Shimbun/via Reuters]

sri lanka protests — Sri Lankans throng President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's official residence in Colombo on July 11, the day after protesters stormed the building demanding his resignation amid the country's worst economic crisis in recent memory. [Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo]

california wildfire — Flames engulf a chair inside a burning home as the Oak Fire burns in Mariposa County, in the US state of California, on July 23. [Noah Berger/AP Photo]

China drought — People sit in a shallow pool of water in the riverbed of the Jialing river, a tributary of the Yangtze, in southwestern China's Chongqing municipality, on August 20. The landscape of Chongqing, a megacity that also takes in surrounding farmland and picturesque mountains, has been transformed by drought. [Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo]

Danube low levels — A kayaker paddles by the wreckage of a World War II German warship in the Danube river near Prahovo, Serbia, on August 26. The hulks of dozens of German battleships have been exposed on the river near the town of Prahovo after severe drought hit most of Europe this summer. [Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo]

Pakistan floods — Men carry children on their shoulders and wade along a flooded road following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Nowshera, Pakistan, on August 29. [Fayaz Aziz/Reuters]

USA Wildfires — Firefighters battling the Mosquito blaze in Placer County, California, on September 13. [Noah Berger/AP Photo]

Pakistan floods — Women from flood-affected areas in Pakistan wait to get free food distributed by a charity in Chachro, near Tharparkar, a district of southern Sindh province, on September 19. [Pervez Masih/AP Photo]

Queen funeral — Britain's King Charles and members of the royal family follow behind the coffin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II as it is carried out of Westminster Abbey after her state funeral in London on September 19. [Danny Lawson/Pool via Reuters]

ukraine war — Catherine, 70, holds a candle in the window of her home during a power outage in Borodianka, in Ukraine's Kyiv region, on October 20, two days after Russian air attacks cut power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. [Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo]

iran protests US — Protesters in Los Angeles stage a rally against the ruling system of Iran on October 22, following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the Islamic republic's so-called 'morality police'. Chanting crowds have rallied in Berlin, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles in solidarity with protesters in Iran facing a violent crackdown. [Richard Vogel/AP Photo]

brazil elections — Supporters cheer during a campaign rally for former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio 'Lula' da Silva, pictured in a life-size cutout in the background, in Sao Paulo, on October 29. Lula beat Jair Bolsonaro to return to the presidency. [Matias Delacroix/AP Photo]

world population 8 billion — People crowd the Juhu beach on the Arabian Sea coast in Mumbai, India, on November 13. The world's population hit an estimated eight billion people on November 15, according to a United Nations projection. [Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo]

ukraine war — Ukrainian soldiers fire artillery at Russian positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, on November 20. [Libkos/AP Photo]

ye 2022 sports — Argentina's Lionel Messi celebrates with the World Cup trophy after his team won the final against France at the Lusail Stadium in Qatar on December 18. [Showkat Shafi/Al Jazeera]

China covid — Workers in protective clothing prepare to receive passengers from a flight coming from outside China to be quarantined at a resort on the outskirts of Beijing, on December 22. [Ken Moritsugu/AP Photo]