Our Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world to bring you a visual snapshot of the weekend's events.
A woman with a Palestinian flag painted on her face shows support of Palestinians during a rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 15 October 2023. 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. EPA-EFE/ISAAC FONTANA
A Ukrainian serviceman from the ‘Donbas’ battalion inspects a rifle as they take part in military training at a position near the frontline, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, 16 October 2023, amid the Russian invasion. Russian troops entered Ukrainian territory in February 2022, starting a conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis. Picture: EPA-EFE/YAKIV LIASHENKOMinister of Police Bheki Cele briefs media about the fight against illegal mining, cash in transit robberies, political assassinations among other things at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg, 16 October 2023. Picture: Neil McCartney / The CitizenA Russian matryoshka doll with the portrait of China’s president (L) is displayed in front of a t-shirt with the image of Russian president at a souvenir shop in downtown Moscow, Russia, 16 October 2023. The Russian president will attend the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, which will be held in Beijing on 17-18 October. As part of this trip, he plans to hold talks with the Chinese president. Picture: EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOVA worker covers sacks of rice as it rains in Jalandhar on October 16, 2023. (Photo by Shammi Mehra / AFP)A Pakistani vendor serves traditional snacks at a road side shop on World Food Day in Peshawar, Pakistan, 16 October 2023. World Food Day is celebrated every year on 16 October to commemorate the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1945. World Food Day aims to raise public awareness of the plight of the world’s hungry and malnourished and to encourage people worldwide to take action against hunger on this year 2023 will focus on the theme, ‘Water is Life, Water is Food. Leave No One Behind’. Picture: EPA-EFE/BILAWAL ARBABJohannesburg Road Agency empoyee, Nicholas Paile, cleans a blocked drain at the corner of North Street and Old Pretoria Road at Midrand, 16 October 2023, at the launch of #OperationRestore. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/The CitizenTwo vehicles are seen after a crash at the corner of Kent Avenue and Dower Street at Randburg, Johannesburg, 16 October 2023. Picture: Bulelwa Ndongeni/The CitizenPalestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli airstrike in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern of Gaza Strip, on October 16, 2023. Israel declared war on the Islamist group Hamas on October 8, a day after waves of its fighters broke through the heavily fortified border and killed more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians. The relentless Israeli bombings since have flattened neighbourhoods and left at least 2,670 people dead in the Gaza Strip, the majority ordinary Palestinians. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)Ultra Orthodox Jews arrive to board the US ‘Rhapsody Of The Seas’ ship in Haifa Port, northern Israel, 16 October 2023. Israel has warned all citizens of the Gaza strip to move to the south ahead of an expected invasion. More than 2,750 Palestinians and 1,300 Israelis have been killed according to the IDF and Palestinian health ministry, after Hamas militants launched an attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October. Picture: EPA-EFE/ABIR SULTANA family rides a bike amid rain in Lahore on October 16, 2023. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)An Indian vendor sells vegetables at a market in Mumbai, India, 16 October 2023. According to data released by the Indian government, wholesale inflation in India remained in the negative zone for the sixth straight month after the September reading came in at -0.26 percent against -0.52 percent in August. Picture: EPA-EFE/DIVYAKANT SOLANKIMembers of the environmental organisation Greenpeace paint the word “Crime” on the 50-meter cooling tower of TPP “Maritsa 3” in Dimitrovgrad during a protest against the coal power plant on October 16, 2023. (Photo by Nikolay DOYCHINOV / AFP)Honour guards wait for the arrival of Congo’s President Denis Sassou Nguesso at Beijing Capital International Airport ahead of the Third Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on October 16, 2023. (Photo by Ken Ishii / POOL / AFP)
