Home Gallery Photos of the week: Christmas in Iraq, Russia mourns aircrash victims, Abe and Obama visit Pearl Harbor by Staff writer December 28, 2016 An Iraqi odontology student dressed in a Santa Claus outfit distributes gifts to impoverished children outside their shanty home in the Iraqi city of Najaf on December 25, 2016. Photo credit: Getty Images A person mourns journalists from Channel One, NTV and Zvezda TV (pictured on photographs) who were aboard a Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 plane, at the Ostankino Technical Center on December 26, 2016 in Moscow, Russia. The plane was carrying 92 people, including 68 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, the official choir of the Russian Armed Forces, nine journalists, and eight crew, as well as several servicemen. The plane crashed en route to Syria where the Alexandrov Ensemble had been going to perform during the New Year concert. Photo credit: Getty Images A Turkish special forces soldier stands guard next to the courthouse as a vehicle transporting prisoners passes on December 27, 2016 in Istanbul. Almost 30 Turkish police went on trial charged with involvement in the July 15 coup bid, the city’s first trial of alleged putschists. With indictments prepared against over 1,200 people, and some 41,000 under arrest in total, the trials following the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are set to be the most far-reaching legal process in Turkish history. Photo credit: Getty Images US President Barack Obama (R) listens as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the USS Arizona Memorial on December 27, 2016 at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. Abe and Obama made a joint pilgrimage to the site of the Pearl Harbor attack to celebrate “the power of reconciliation.” The Japanese attack on an unsuspecting US fleet moored at Pearl Harbor turned the Pacific into a cauldron of conflict — more than 2,400 were killed and a reluctant America was drawn into World War II. Photo credit: Getty Images A model wearing a 6-meter-long red dress greets audience before the New Year’s Concert at Yichang Theatre on December 27, 2016 in Yichang, Hubei Province of China. Photo credit: Getty Images 0 Comments