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24 hours in pictures, 3 October 2023

Artist Olena Noyna (L) works on a mural depicting a Ukrainian serviceman holding a cat, on a building in Kyiv, Ukraine, 03 October 2023, amid the Russian invasion. Picture: EPA-EFE/Oleg Petrasyuk
Cyril Ramaphosa and members of the Special Olympic Team at the meet and greet between the government and South Africa’s Special Olympics Team at the Union Buildings on October 03, 2023 in Pretoria, South Africa. Team South Africa excelled at the XVI Special Olympic World Games, which took place in Berlin, Germany, winning 49 medals. (Photo by Gallo Images/Frennie Shivambu)
A woman looks at jewellery during a press preview of the exhibition ‘Notes of a Jeweller. A Diamond History’ at the State Historical Museum in Moscow, Russia, 03 October 2023. The exhibition presents works of jewellery art of the Russian Empire and works of modern jewellery masters. The show will run from 04 October to 15 January 2024. Picture: EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV
Police officers block protesters during a demonstration of students from the Royal Gardens in Turin, Italy, 03 October 2023. Clashes erupted between police and people protesting against Prime Minister Meloni as the demonstrators attempted to break through a police cordon deployed ahead of the visit of the premier to take part in the festival delle regioni (Festival of Regions) event in the northern city. The march was led by a banner with the inscription: ‘Neither merit nor talent. Money to school and not war.’ Picture: EPA-EFE/TINO ROMANO
Journalists wait for the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics, at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, 03 October 2023. The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for ‘experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter’, the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced. Picture: EPA-EFE/ANDERS WIKLUND
Indonesian Air Force EC120B Colibri helicopters during a rehearsal for the 78th anniversary of the Indonesian military in Jakarta on October 3, 2023. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP)
Kashmiri women mourn near the debris after their shanty were destroyed in a fire incident in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 01 October 2023. At least 17 small wooden residential sheds were damaged in an early morning fire incident at Parimpora area of Srinagar. Picture: EPA-EFE/FAROOQ KHAN
Dragqueen Olivia Jones attends the celebration of the German reunification in Hamburg, Germany, on October 3, 2023. (Photo by Gregor Fischer / POOL / AFP)
A brass musician plays his instrument during the the last day of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, on October 3, 2023. (Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP)
The Ceiling construction of Cologne Central Mosque during the Open Mosque Day in Cologne, Germany, 03 October 2023. The main Mosque in Cologne-Ehrenfeld is one of Europe’s largest Islamic places of worship, with room for 1,200 worshippers and a 2,000-square-metre prayer hall. Since 1997, 03 October has been designated as Open Mosque Day, during which numerous Islamic places of worship around Germany open their doors to the public. Picture: EPA-EFE/CHRISTOPHER NEUNDORF
An aerial photograph shows a tugboat and a ferry carrying fuel, gasoline, beverages, and vehicles stranded on a sandbank formed by a severe drought that is hitting the rivers of the Amazon basin in the municipality of Iranduba, on the opposite bank from Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, 03 October 2023. The current drought in the Amazon, where there are huge areas isolated due to difficulties in the navigability of the rivers, could be historic and extend until January 2024, according to the state-run Center for Monitoring of Alerts and Natural Disasters (Cemaden). Picture: EPA-EFE/Raphael Alves
An artist works on a sculpture representing goddess Durga in a workshop ahead of the Durga Puja festival for the Bengali Hindu community in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 03 October 2023. The Durga Puja 2023 will take place in Bangladesh from 20 to 24 October. The festival celebrates goddess Durga as the motherly power behind creation, as well as her victory over evil. Picture: EPA-EFE/MONIRUL ALAM

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