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24 hours in pictures, 16 October 2019

24 hours in pictures, 16 October 2019

A military band from Fiji performs during a preview of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo at ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia, 16 October 2019. The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is an annual series of performances by British, Commonwealth and international military bands. It is traditionally held outside the Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. According to event organizers, over 14 nations will be represented at the event in Sydney, including Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Samoa and Vanuatu. The three-day event runs from 17 through to 19 October 2019. Picture: EPA-EFE/JOEL CARRETT

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A selection of some of the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

This undated picture released by Korean Central News Agency on October 16, 2019 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un riding a white horse amongst the first snow at Mouth Paektu. Picture: AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNSmore
Picture: AFP / JIJI PRESS
A farmer seeding a land. Picture: AFP
A military band from Fiji performs during a preview of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo at ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia, 16 October 2019. The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is an annual series of performances by British, Commonwealth and international military bands. It is traditionally held outside the Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. According to event organizers, over 14 nations will be represented at the event in Sydney, including Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Samoa and Vanuatu. The three-day event runs from 17 through to 19 October 2019. Picture: EPA-EFE/JOEL CARRETTmore
Guards of honour hold Latvian and Ukrainian flags as they walk away from the Riga Castle square in Riga, Latvia, on October 16, 2019, after a welcoming ceremony in honor of the President of Ukraine. Picture: AFP / Gints Ivuskansmore
Picture for illustration purposes only. An exterior view shows the porte-cochere at the Circus Circus Las Vegas on October 16, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Picture: Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP
This aerial picture taken at sunrise on October 16, 2019 shows vineyards near the village of Wolxheim, eastern France. Picture: AFP / PATRICK HERTZOG
Farmers with their tractors take part in a demonstration against the nitrogen policy rules called by the Agriculture and Horticulture Organization (LTO) The Netherlands, at the Malieveld in The Hague, on October 16, 2019. Picture: AFP / ANP / Koen van Weelmore
Hungarian organic gardener Dominika Zaka puts bread dough into a basket at their place of residence, in a yurt in Szentes, Hungary, 16 October 2019. The young woman and her partner, Csaba Szabo bake leavened bread made of organic flours for themselves and their friends once a week. World Bread Day is celebrated on 16 October to commemorate the anniversary of the creation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Picture: EPA-EFE/Sandor Ujvarimore
Catalan pro-independence supporters walk along AP-7 highway as they attend a protest march from Girona to Barcelona against the Spanish Supreme Court's sentences to pro-independence leaders, released last 14 October, in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, 16 October 2019. Some protest marches called 'Marches for Freedom' are running from the five Catalan cities of Girona, Vic, Berga, Tarrega and Tarragona to arrive to Barcelona next 18 October. Picture: EPA-EFE/David Borratmore
A woman rides a bicycle past a painted wall at Chu Xa village of Gia Lam district in Hanoi, Vietnam, 16 October 2019. The village is known for growing vegetables and fruits for Hanoi and surrounding provinces and has recently become the first mural village in Hanoi with more than 20 colorful paintings featuring on the walls. Picture: EPA-EFE/LUONG THAI LINHmore
Hungarian police officers perform the technique of life saving during a flash mob held on the occasion of the international World Restart A Heart Day in front of Keleti Railway Station, in Budapest, Hungary 16 October 2019. Picture: EPA-EFE/Marton Monusmore
A worker fixes the glass window of the newly built Time City Complex in Yangon, Myanmar, 16 October 2019. Picture: EPA-EFE/NYEIN CHAN NAING
A refugee child looks behind a bus window during a police operation to clear buildings squatted mostly by refugee families in the neighbourhood of Exarcheia, central Athens, Greece, 16 October 2019. The refugee families will be transported to refugee camps all over Greece. Picture: EPA-EFE/KOSTAS TSIRONISmore



 

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