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24 hours in pictures, 16 November 2023

Our Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and worldwide to give you a visual snapshot of the day's events.

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This photo taken on November 16, 2023 shows autumn leaves in a public park in Bordeaux, south-western France. (Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP)

This photo taken on November 16, 2023 shows autumn leaves in a public park in Bordeaux, south-western France. (Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP)

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Relatives, friends and supporters of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attack by Hamas militants in southern Israel, hold placards and images of those taken during a protest for their release in the central city of Modiin on November 16 2023, as they march towards Jerusalem. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
Volunteers and firefighters combat the fires that went out of control during the burning of forests and pastures for agricultural purposes in Rurrunabaque, Beni Department, Bolivia, on November 15, 2023. (Photo by Cristian CASTRO / AFP)
Dutch King Willem-Alexander (3R), visits a livestock farmer affected by the bluetongue virus in Stolwijk, on November 16, 2023. – Agriculture companies are getting infected with the bluetongue virus every day in the Netherlands. (Photo by Jeroen Jumelet / ANP / AFP)
An Israeli tank takes position near the border with the Gaza Strip in Southern Israel on November 16, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. – Israel has vowed to eradicate Hamas in retaliation for the attacks of October 7, which killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, according to Israeli officials. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says the death toll from the military offensive has now topped 11,500, including thousands of children. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
Former English football player David Beckham looks on before the start of the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup one-day international (ODI) first semi-final match between India and New Zealand at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on November 15, 2023. (Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP)
An Israeli security force officer takes position as they surround the area of a Palestinian home, believed to belong to one of the gunmen that attacked an Israel checkpoint on the edge of Jerusalem earlier in the day, during a military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on November 16, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. – Israel has vowed to eradicate Hamas in retaliation for the attacks of October 7, which killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, according to Israeli officials. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says the death toll from the military offensive has now topped 11,500, including thousands of children. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP)
South Korea’s forward Son Heung-min reacts after a missed goal against Singapore during the 2026 World Cup qualification group C football match between South Korea and Singapore at the Seoul World Cup Stadium in Seoul on November 16, 2023. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
A Ukrainian FPV (first-person view) drone operator trains not far from the front line in Donetsk region on November 16, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP)
Russian artist Alexandra Skochilenko, 33, accused of spreading disinformation about the Russian army for changing supermarket price tags with messages criticising Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine, looks on inside a defendants’ cage during her verdict hearing at a court in Saint Petersburg on November 16, 2023. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / AFP)
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic returns to Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz during their first round-robin match at the ATP Finals tennis tournament in Turin on November 16, 2023. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)
A tourist holds an umbrella at the Human Rights Plaza (Parvis des droits de l’Homme) at the Trocadero, facing the Eiffel Tower, on a rainy day in Paris on November 16, 2023. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP)
An Afghan burqa-clad woman sits beside a girl, as they look for alms along a street in the Fayzabad district of Badakhshan province on November 16, 2023. (Photo by OMER ABRAR / AFP)
A man looks at a model of the 2006 frigate Chevalier Paul and a model of the 1994 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles-de-Gaulle at the French National Navy museum, in Paris, on November 16, 2023. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP)
South Africa’s Tabraiz Shamsi celebrates after taking the wicket of Australia’s Glenn Maxwell during the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup one-day international (ODI) second semi-final match between Australia and South Africa at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on November 16, 2023. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP)
A picture taken from the southern Israeli close to Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip on November 16, 2023, shows the sun setting over the Mediterranean Sea, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. (Photo by Jack Guez / AFP)

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