24 hours in pictures, 17 August 2020
A selection of the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world
Members of the Kayapo tribe block the middle of highway BR163 with a barricade during a protest on the outskirts of Novo Progresso in Para State, Brazil, on August 17, 2020 amid the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic. – Indigenous protestors blocked a major Trans-Amazonian highway to protest against the lack of governmental support during the COVID-19 pandemic and illegal deforestation in and around their territories. (Photo by Carl DE SOUZA / AFP)
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- Staff members of the MSC Grandiosa cruise liner, seen through a porthole give the thumbs-up in the northwestern port city of Genoa on August 16, 2020 prior the departure of the liner after six-and-half months of inactivity due to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic. – The first major cruise ship to set sail in the Mediterranean was poised to depart from Genoa as Italy’s struggling travel industry hopes to regain ground after a bruising coronavirus hiatus, representing a high-stakes test for the global sector in the key Mediterranean market and beyond. (Photo by Miguel MEDINA / AFP)
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- Students hold placards as they take part in a protest march from Codsall Community High School to the constituency office of Gavin Williamson, Conservative MP for South Staffordshire and Britain’s current Education Secretary, in Codsall near Wolverhampton, central England on August 17, 2020, to demonstrate against the downgrading of A-level results. – The British government faced criticism after education officials downgraded more than a third of pupils’ final grades in a system devised after the coronavirus pandemic led to cancelled exams. Although the newly released results for 18-year-olds showed record-high grades and more students accepted to university courses, exam boards downgraded nearly 40 percent of pupils’ grades in England. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)
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- People walk and shop at a market in old neighborhood of Chowk, in Allahabad on August 17, 2020. – India’s official coronavirus death toll soared past 50,000 on August 17 as the pandemic rages through smaller cities and rural areas where health care is feeble and stigmatisation rife. (Photo by SANJAY KANOJIA / AFP)
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- Commuters are seen along a road in the old neighbourhood of Chowk, in Allahabad on August 17, 2020. – India’s official coronavirus death toll soared past 50,000 on August 17 as the pandemic rages through smaller cities and rural areas where health care is feeble and stigmatisation rife. (Photo by SANJAY KANOJIA / AFP)
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- Umpires Richard Kettleborough (top R) and Michael Gough (bottom R) talk with England’s captain Joe Root (top L) and Pakistan’s captain Azhar Ali after inspecting the pitch as rain continues to delay the start of play on the fifth day of the second Test cricket match between England and Pakistan at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton, southwest England on August 17, 2020. (Photo by Glyn KIRK / POOL / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. NO ASSOCIATION WITH DIRECT COMPETITOR OF SPONSOR, PARTNER, OR SUPPLIER OF THE ECB
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- File picture for illustration. Sun International CEO Anthony Leeming said an overall investment of more than R700 million is set to be injected into the Boardwalk Casino precinct over the next two years. (Photo by OLI SCARFF / AFP)
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- A mask-clad man walks past a billboard showing other mask-clad faces and adequate social distance measures, raising awareness about Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic precautions, in the Beit Hanina neighbourhood in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, on August 17, 2020. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
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- Members of the Kayapo tribe block the middle of highway BR163 with a barricade during a protest on the outskirts of Novo Progresso in Para State, Brazil, on August 17, 2020 amid the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic. – Indigenous protestors blocked a major Trans-Amazonian highway to protest against the lack of governmental support during the COVID-19 pandemic and illegal deforestation in and around their territories. (Photo by Carl DE SOUZA / AFP)
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- Picture for illustration purposes. (Photo by DENIS LOVROVIC / AFP)
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- Workers demolish the Workers’ Stadium in Beijing on August 17, 2020. – The stadium, originally built in 1959 and which later hosted football competition at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, is to be demolished and rebuilt. The replacement Workers’ Stadium is scheduled for completion in December 2022. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)
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- Tourists take photos in front of a “Tsoi Wall”, a memorial to Viktor Tsoi, a Russian rock idol who has died in a car crash on August 15, 1990, in downtown Moscow on August 17, 2020. – The inscription on the wall reads: “Our Hearts Demand Changes!”. This song is stillone of the most popular anthems of social and political protests over the former USSR for the las thirty years. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)
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- Running back J.K. Dobbins #27 of the Baltimore Ravens trains during the Baltimore Ravens Training Camp at Under Armour Performance Center Baltimore Ravens on August 17, 2020 in Owings Mills, Maryland. Patrick Smith/Getty Images/AFP
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- Wigan’s owner Au Yeung Wai Kai enquired about placing the team into administration the day before he informed EFL bosses he had acquired a majority share in the 2013 FA Cup winners an independent panel has revealed. AFP/Adrian DENNIS
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