24 hours in pictures, 12 October 2023

Flowering jacaranda trees are seen in Pretoria, 12 October 2023. Pretoria is known as the Jacaranda City, for the purple blossomed trees that line its streets, however the plants were imported from South America and are classified as an alien invasive-problem. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen A street vender selling fruit walks along a street in Hanoi, Vietnam, 12 October 2023. Picture: EPA-EFE/LUONG THAI LINH A Former President Donald Trump’s supporter stand near an old towing truck with the President Biden’s image and name before the beginning of the Club 47 USA event at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA, 11 October 2023. Trump and U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz, are scheduled to speak during the Club 47 USA event. Club 47 USA, Inc is a corporation formed to support the agenda and re-election of Trump. Picture: EPA-EFE/CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH Republican Representative of California and former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy walks down the East Front steps of the US House of Representatives after attending a vigil for Israel with a bipartisan group of members of the House, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, 12 October 2023. The US House has been unable to pass a resolution condemning Hamas with the position of House Speaker vacant after Kevin McCarthy was removed as speaker in a historic vote forced by hard-right conservatives. Picture: EPA-EFE/MICHAEL REYNOLDS Runners taking part in the Soweto Marathon: Jacques Ferreira (centre front), with from left to right, Sipho Marima, Boitumelo Mpete, Boipelo Marima and Dalingebo Phama pose for a photograph wearing the new African Bank Soweto Marathon T-shirt, 12 October 2023, at the T-shirt unveling in Midrand. The marathon will take place on 5 November with 15 000 runners already registered. Organisers are hoping to entice 30 000 runners to the event. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen Zimbabwe's main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party leader Nelson Chamisa addresses the media in Harare, Zimbabwe, 11 October 2023. Chamisa gave the press conference after all the 15 Members of the Parliament from the party were suspended. Picture: EPA-EFE/AARON UFUMELI This pool photograph distributed by Russian state owned agency Sputnik shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his Kyrgyz counterpart Sadyr Japarov attending a welcoming ceremony prior to their talks in Bishkek on October 12, 2023. (Photo by Sergei KARPUKHIN / POOL / AFP) People with Israeli flags demonstrate in support of Israel in front of Parliament building, in Bucharest, Romania, 12 October 2023. Hundreds of people attended the demonstration organized by the Jewish Community of Bucharest, Israeli embassy in Bucharest and Laude-Reut High School of Bucharest after the Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalated. Thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have died since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October 2023, leading to Israeli retaliation strikes on the Palestinian enclave. Picture: EPA-EFE/ROBERT GHEMENT A shell goes off in the water off the beach of Gaza during an Israeli air strike, 12 October 2023. More than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed and over 6,000 others injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, after Israel started bombing the Palestinian enclave in response to attacks carried out by the Islamist movement Hamas on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October. More than 4,000 people, including 1,500 militants from Hamas, have been killed and thousands injured in Gaza and Israel since 07 October, according to Israeli military sources and Palestinian officials. Picture: EPA-EFE/MOHAMMED SABER A dozen young people climb the statue with the flags of different arab countries at the banned demonstration in support of the Palestinian people on Republic Square in Paris, France, 12 October 2023. Several hundred people took part in the vigil that had been banned by the police prefecture on 11 October. Thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have been killed since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, prompting Israeli retaliatory strikes against the Palestinian enclave. Picture: EPA-EFE/TERESA SUAREZ Prisoners at the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) in Tecoluca, El Salvador, 12 October 2023. The Salvadoran mega-prison, inaugurated last February to house 40,000 gang members convicted or detained under an exceptional regime, is operating at 30% of its capacity and has not registered any deaths inside, according to prison authorities. Picture: EPA-EFE/Rodrigo Sura A woman stands behind the rubble of a building in earthquake-hit Zenda Jan district of Herat, Afghanistan, 12 October 2023. Afghanistan's government officials on 11 October lowered the death toll of a series of earthquakes that struck the country’s western districts to about 1,000, revising their initial figure of more than 2,000 casualties. Picture: EPA-EFE/SAMIULLAH POPAL IN PICTURES: Isicathamiya choirs find their voice in Durban

24 hours in pictures, 12 October 2023

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