24 hours in pictures, 25 March 2024

Horse Al Aryam from the UAE is guided by a horseman during the Dubai International Horse Championship as part of Dubai International Horse Fair 2024 in Gulf emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 24 March 2024. Picture: EPA-EFE/ALI HAIDER Supporters during the MK Party Peace Walk To FNB Stanger Street on March 25, 2024 in KwaDukuza, South Africa. This comes after the financial institution was instructed by the High Court to place a hold on outgoing payments from former President Jacob Zuma's FNB account. (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart) A view on a fresco made of solar panels representing a portrait of the iconic Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, native of La Chaux-de-Fonds, is pictured on the roof of a new building in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 25 March 2024. Picture: EPA-EFE/VALENTIN FLAURAUD A pile of discarded ANC election posters at a park in Hartfield, Pretoria, 25 March 2024. The cause is unknown why they are on the ground. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/The Citizen A tourist braves the rainy weather while visiting the Keukenhof Tulip Gardens in Lisse, Netherlands, 24 March 2024. The world-famous flower park is seeing a rainy start of its 75th season opening. Picture: EPA-EFE/ROBIN UTRECHT DA leader John Steenhuisen speaks as the DA introduce their new candidates for the 2024 National and Provincial Elections at their headquarters in Bruma, 25 March 2024. Picture: Neil McCartney / The Citizen Ultra-Orthodox Jewish youths clash with Israeli security forces during the Purim celebrations in Jerusalem's Mea Sharim district on March 25, 2024. - The carnival-like Purim holiday is celebrated with parades and costume parties to commemorate the deliverance of the Jewish people from a plot to exterminate them in the ancient Persian empire 2,500 years ago, as recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP) Girls smeared with ‘Gulal' as they celebrate Holi, the Hindu spring festival of colours, in Kolkata on March 25, 2024. (Photo by DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP) An installation entitled "Continuous" by Japanese art collective teamLab, featuring some 200 giant egg-shaped objects which change colour to music as part of the Art@Harbour initiative, is seen at Tamar Park in front by Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour on March 25, 2024. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP) Greek Army soldiers fire a 21-gun salute on the morning of the celebrations of the Greek Independence Day on Lycabettus hill in Athens, on March 25, 2024. (Photo by Theophile Bloudanis / AFP) 75-year-old Palestinian Hoda al-Arouqi, who was injured as a result of overnight Israeli bombardment, inspects the damage to her home in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 25, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) French soldiers patrol near the Eiffel Tower as part of the national security plan 'Vigipirate', in Paris, France, 25 March 2024. The French government decided to increase the security alert system 'Vigipirate' to the highest level after Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility for the attack in Moscow and the threats weighing on France, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said in a post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on 24 March. Picture: EPA-EFE/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON A snake-necked turtle appears during a media preview for the exhibition 'Secret Life of Reptiles and Amphibians' at London Zoo in London, Britain, 25 March 2024. The exhibition opens on 29 March 2024 at London Zoo. Picture: EPA-EFE/NEIL HALL Catholics believers attend a mass celebrating the Palm Sunday at the Saint Francis basilica in La Paz, Bolivia, 24 March 2024. Palm Sunday commemorates Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem in the days before the Last Supper where, according to the Christian Gospels he was greeted by people waving palm branches and singing praises. Picture: EPA-EFE/Esteban Biba IN PICTURES: Cape’s epic bike race

24 hours in pictures, 25 March 2024

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