Attack on the Capitol, Vaccines and Natural Disasters: Summary of 2021

This year, too, we continued to deal with the corona virus that changed our lives, but at the same time, other dramatic events grabbed the headlines - and the pictures.

From the US President who changed, through volcanic eruptions to the departure of American forces from Afghanistan | Watch photos

Guy Elster

31/12/2021

Friday, December 31, 2021, 9:30 p.m.

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Attack on the Capitol, January (Photo: Reuters)

US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamla Harris Regal before entering the Capitol, January (Photo: GettyImages)

Myanmar army forces block access to parliament building in capital, February (Photo: AP)

Photo of Mars taken by the United Arab Emirates' Tikva spacecraft, February (Photo: AP)

Satellite images of the ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal, March (Photo: Reuters)

U.S. Border Patrol agents try to stop immigrants on border with Mexico, September (Photo: AP)

Mexican refugee camp in Del Rio, Texas, September (Photo: Reuters)

American Chinook helicopter in the skies of the American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, August (Photo: AP)

A woman with a burqa carries a child at Kabul airport, Afghanistan, August (Photo: Reuters)

A man watches a fire approaching a beach near the town of Limani, Greece, August (Photo: AP)

Immigrants from Haiti in Rio Grande Texas, Mexico, September (Photo: AP, / Felix Marques)

Immigrants on the Belarusian side of the border between Belarus and Poland, November (Photo: Reuters)

Cremation of Corona patients in New Delhi, India, April (Photo: AP)

Lava from the island of La Palma reaches the Atlantic Ocean, September (Photo: Reuters)

A house covered in ash after a volcanic eruption on the island of La Palma, Spain, October (Photo: AP)

Firefighter battles Dixie fire near Greenville, California, USA, August (Photo: Reuters)

Search among the ruins of a candle factory that collapsed after a tornado in the town of Mayfield, Kentucky, USA, December (Photo: AP)

The ruins of a building that collapsed in the town of Surfside in the Miami area, Florida, June (Photo: AP)

T-shirt cows flooded in British Columbia, Canada, November (Photo: Reuters)

Armed with RPG in Beirut, Lebanon, October (Photo: Reuters)

Gymnast Simon Bailes in Tokyo, July (Photo: Reuters)

Queen Elizabeth at St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle at the funeral of her husband, Prince Philip, April (Photo: Reuters)

Trump waves goodbye as he leaves the White House, January (Photo: AP)

The carcasses of six giraffes in the Savoli Nature Reserve, Kenya, December (Photo: GettyImages)

Ruins in the town of Shuld flooded by floods in West Germany, July (Photo: Reuters)

Cinema in Mayfield, Kentucky, damaged by tornado, December (Photo: Reuters)

A 7-year-old boy receives a vaccine from the Pfizer company at Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital, November (Photo: AP)

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