24 hours in pictures, 14 October 2020
News in pictures
Officers of the Johannesburg Metro Police broke up a large church gathering on Sunday. Picture: Michel Bega
A selection of some of the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world
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- A pedestrian walks past an poster image of a 1930s protest against prohibition depicting protestors holding “We Want Beer” placards, outside a pub in Liverpool, north west England on October 14, 2020, as new local lockdown measures come in to force to help stem a second wave of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The northwest city of Liverpool — the only place put into the highest category — will see a ban on household mixing and pub closures from Wednesday for at least four weeks. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)
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- Officers of the Johannesburg Metro Police broke up a large church gathering on Sunday. Picture: Michel Bega
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- A pro-democracy protester takes part in an anti-government rally in Bangkok on October 14, 2020. (Photo by Jack TAYLOR / AFP)
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- File picture: Former Bosasa chief operating officer Angelo Agrizzi appears in court. Picture: Nigel Sibanda
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- The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 64 crew of NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov blasts off to the ISS from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 14, 2020. (Photo by Andrey SHELEPIN / Russian Space Agency Roscosmos / AFP)
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- Residents in Olievenhutbosch Ext 60 received 700 food parcels distributed by the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation, 14 October 2020, Centurion. Picture: Jacques Nelles
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- A young Palestinian, wearing a protective mask due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, rides his donkey-cart on the coastal road in Gaza City on October 14, 2020. Gaza, under an Israeli-enforced blockade since 2007, was uniquely protected against a wide spread of coronavirus since access was already tightly controlled before the outbreak. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
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- A resident shows the level of water in his cellar area at an apartment following heavy rains in Hyderabad on October 14, 2020. (Photo by NOAH SEELAM / AFP)
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- A child embraces his mother who holds hands with other women taking part in a special mass prayer meeting in Senekal, on October 14, 2020. Dozens of Christian faithfuls gathered to pray for peace and unity in the small South African farming town of Senekal that is at the centre of tensions after white farmers last week stormed a courthouse during the hearing of two Black suspects accused of killing a 22-year-old farm manager. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)
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- A woman walks past a building with a painting of the Azerbaijani flag on its wall in Baku on October 14, 2020, amid the ongoing military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. (Photo by TOFIK BABAYEV / AFP)
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- Picture – Ina Fassbender / AFP)
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