Top Shots: Compelling Images From Our Region

A firework explodes amid clashes between police and opposition protesters in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. 

People look at Christmas decorations in front of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria. 

Firefighters try to extinguish a blaze that broke out at the Rimpa Plaza commercial building in Karachi, Pakistan, on December 3. 

People with red paint on their hands, symbolizing blood, leave imprints on the pavement during a protest about the collapse of a concrete canopy at the railway station in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, which killed 15 people last month.