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24 hours in pictures, 19 June 2025
24 hours in pictures, 19 June 2025 Through the lens: The Citizen's Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world. A racegoer attends Royal Ascot on Ladies Day in Ascot, Britain, 19 June 2025. The horse race meeting and social event runs daily from 17 to 21 June 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/NEIL HALL Nurses walk along a balcony corrider past a first responder filming with a phone as smoke billows from a building at Soroka Hospital following an Iranian missile attack in Beersheba in southern Israel on June 19, 2025. Soroka Hospital and two towns near Tel Aviv were struck after a barrage of Iranian missiles early on June 19, with rescuers reporting at least 47 people injured in the latest attacks. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP) A man dressed as a Dancing Devil of Chuao stands for a picture on a cocoa plantation during the second day of the Corpus Christi celebration in Chuao, Venezuela, on June 19, 2025. The Venezuelan Dancing Devils of Corpus Christi were recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2012. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP) Female artists speak with visitors at an exhibition organized by the Union of Women Painters in Kabul, Afghanistan, 19 June 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/SAMIULLAH POPAL Former MK Party SG Floyd Shivambu briefs the media at Mhulu Luxury Boutique Hotel on June 19, 2025 in Midrand, South Africa. This comes after Floyd Shivambu was removed from his position as uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party Secretary-General a few weeks back. (Photo by Gallo Images/Fani Mahuntsi) Palestinians leave their cars to seek cover from tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during a military operation in the Balata refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus, 19 June 2025. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, at least 30 Palestinians were wounded during the second day of the Israeli operation in the camp. Picture: EPA-EFE/ALAA BADARNEH Members of ActionSA during a protest demanding the removal of National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Head , Advocate Shamila Batohi outside the offices of the Department of Justice And Constitutional Development on June 19, 2025 in Pretoria, South Africa. Opposition parties have slammed the NPA for failing to successfully prosecute those implicated in state capture and botched extradition matters. (Photo by Gallo Images/Frennie Shivambu) People attend the Corpus Christi procession, which, in addition to Roman Catholics, also included Greek Catholics with their clergy, in Przemysl, Poland, 19 June 2025. Celebrations of the Feast of the Holy Body and Blood of Christ are taking place throughout Poland, one of the most important holidays in the Catholic Church. Picture: EPA-EFE/Darek Delmanowicz Fans collect autographs from the South Africa men's Cricket Team players during a meet and greet event, 19 June 2025, at the Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton after the team won the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Test Championship at Lord's over the weekend. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen Vehicles travel through a flooded street in Juchit Mexico, 19 June 2025. Hurricane Erick, the first of the 2025 season in the Mexican Pacific, made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane and weakened to a tropical storm after passing through the state of Guerrero, in southern Mexico, causing material damage but no casualties. Picture: EPA-EFE/LUIS VILLALOBOS Cuban artist Daldo Marto performs at the launch of the 'Art Brut' exhibition, as part of the 'Grand Palais d'Ete' (Summer of the Grand Palais) in Paris, France, 19 June 2025. The event gives the public free access to the exhibitions of the fully restored monument and runs from 11 June to 21 September 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON A person holds flags during a demonstration for peace in Iran and Gaza; in Caracas, Venezuela, 19 June 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/MIGUEL GUTIERREZ MORE: 24 hours in pictures, 18 June 2025
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- General
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24 hours in pictures, 17 June 2025
24 hours in pictures, 17 June 2025 Through the lens: The Citizen's Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world. A race-goer during Royal Ascot in Ascot, Britain, 17 June 2025. Royal Ascot is the United Kingdom's most valuable horse race meeting and social event running from 17 to 21 June 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/NEIL HALL An Israeli firefighter douses bus carcasses at the impact site of an Iranian missile at a bus depot in Herzliya near Tel Aviv on June 17, 2025. Israel's military said air raid sirens sounded in several areas of the country on June 17 after identifying missiles launched from Iran, as AFP journalists reported booms over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) This photograph shows Airbus Helicopters' unmanned reconnaissance helicopter (drone) VSR700 on display at the Paris International Air Show (Salon international de l'aeronautique et de l'espace – SIAE) at the Paris–Le Bourget Airport, north of Paris, on June 17, 2025. (Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP) People sit by the Sarawak river in Kuching, capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo, on June 17, 2025. (Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP) An aircraft from the Gol airline company prepares to land at Santos Dumont airport with the Christ the Redeemer statue in the background in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 16, 2025. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP) A boy is silhouetted against the setting sun at a neighborhood in Sana'a, Yemen, 16 June 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/YAHYA ARHAB Construction workers are carrying out glass curtain wall construction on the spherical building facade without any obstruction in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, China on June 17, 2025. (Photo by Gu Huaxia / CFOTO via AFP) Children participate as firefighters simulate how to handle a fire during a safety simulation for school children at a fire disaster management center in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 17 June 2025. The training and simulation are held by the Indonesian Fire Fighter Agency as part of a disaster awareness education program for school students on how to respond quickly to a fire disaster. Picture: EPA-EFE/HOTLI SIMANJUNTAK Visitors stand by 'Stone triptych with snails, body fragments and sewing machine' a 2025 work by British-French artist duo Daniel Dewar and Gregory Gicquel displayed at the Unlimited section of the Art Basel fair for Modern and contemporary art, in Basel, Switzerland, on June 17, 2025. The fair will open to the public from June 19 to June 22, 2025, featuring over 290 leading galleries and more than 4,000 artists from five continents. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) The artwork 'Os Comedores de Terra / The Earth Eaters' (2025) by Brazilian artist Luiz Zerbini is on display at the show Art Unlimited in the context of the international art show Art Basel 2025, in Basel, Switzerland, 16 June 2025. Unlimited is Art Basel's exhibition platform for projects that transcend the limitations of a classical art-show stand, including out-sized sculpture and paintings, video projections, large-scale installations, and live performances. Picture: EPA-EFE/GEORGIOS KEFALAS A view inside of the inner courtyard of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, 17 June 2025. The current European Parliament plenary session runs from 16 to 19 June 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/RONALD WITTEK Bangladeshi boatmen cover themselves from the rain during a downpour, at Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16 June 2025. According to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) forecast, the monsoon is active over the southern part of the country and fairly active elsewhere, remaining moderate over North Bay. Picture: EPA-EFE/MONIRUL ALAM MORE: 24 hours in pictures, 16 June 2025
