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24 hours in pictures, 8 November 2023

Our Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world to bring you a visual snapshot of the day's events.

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A fireball erupts in the Gaza Strip

A police vehicle is parked at the scene where a man and woman were shot and killed, 8 November 2023, outside the Randburg Magistrates Court. Police spokesperson Colonel Mavela Masondo said it is reported that the two were approached by a suspect who shot at them and then fled in a black Mercedes Benz. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen

A police vehicle is parked at the scene where a man and woman were shot and killed, 8 November 2023, outside the Randburg Magistrates Court. Police spokesperson Colonel Mavela Masondo said it is reported that the two were approached by a suspect who shot at them and then fled in a black Mercedes Benz. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen

Mounds of sand covering blood stains mark the scene where a man and woman were shot and killed, 8 November 2023, outside the Randburg Magistrates Court. Police spokesperson Colonel Mavela Masondo said it is reported that the two were approached by a suspect who shot at them and then fled in a black Mercedes Benz. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen

Mounds of sand covering blood stains mark the scene where a man and woman were shot and killed, 8 November 2023, outside the Randburg Magistrates Court. Police spokesperson Colonel Mavela Masondo said it is reported that the two were approached by a suspect who shot at them and then fled in a black Mercedes Benz. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen

People place LED candles during a vigil in memory of Super Typhoon Haiyan victims on the tenth anniversary of the disaster at a park in Tacloban city, Leyte province, on November 8, 2023. – Survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan prayed for their dead loved ones in the devoutly Catholic Philippines on November 8 as they commemorated the 10th anniversary of a storm that killed more than 6,000 people. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP)

People place LED candles during a vigil in memory of Super Typhoon Haiyan victims on the tenth anniversary of the disaster at a park in Tacloban city, Leyte province, on November 8, 2023. – Survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan prayed for their dead loved ones in the devoutly Catholic Philippines on November 8 as they commemorated the 10th anniversary of a storm that killed more than 6,000 people. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP)

South African actress Nomzamo Mbatha poses as she arrives to attend the 2023 Earthshot Prize in Singapore on November 7, 2023. Five winners were announced at the ceremony each receiving £1 million (around $1.2 million) to scale up their projects.aimed at combatting climate change. (Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP)

South African actress Nomzamo Mbatha poses as she arrives to attend the 2023 Earthshot Prize in Singapore on November 7, 2023. Five winners were announced at the ceremony each receiving £1 million (around $1.2 million) to scale up their projects.aimed at combatting climate change. (Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP)

German Holocaust survivor and public speaker Margot Friedlander holds her Jewish Star of David (Judenstern) she had to wear in Nazi Germany, as she takes part in talks titled “War in the Middle East: For a peaceful life together in Germany” as the German President hosts a round table for a dialogue on a cohabitation without anti-semitism and islamophobia, on November 8, 2023 at the presidential Bellevue Palace in Berlin. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

German Holocaust survivor and public speaker Margot Friedlander holds her Jewish Star of David (Judenstern) she had to wear in Nazi Germany, as she takes part in talks titled “War in the Middle East: For a peaceful life together in Germany” as the German President hosts a round table for a dialogue on a cohabitation without anti-semitism and islamophobia, on November 8, 2023 at the presidential Bellevue Palace in Berlin. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

A youth stands before a hole in what used to be a wall in a building that was hit during Israeli bombardment, while others search the rubble for survivors and the bodies of victims, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 8, 2023 amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP)

A youth stands before a hole in what used to be a wall in a building that was hit during Israeli bombardment, while others search the rubble for survivors and the bodies of victims, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 8, 2023 amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP)

The EFF from ward 81 Sunnyside march to Huurkor in Sunnyside, Pretoria, 8 November 2023, in protest over alleged overpriced metering and underpayment of Huurkor workers. Picture: Neil McCartney / The Citizen

The EFF from ward 81 Sunnyside march to Huurkor in Sunnyside, Pretoria, 8 November 2023, in protest over alleged overpriced metering and underpayment of Huurkor workers. Picture: Neil McCartney / The Citizen

Boatmen row their boat in the Jhelum River amid foggy conditions in Srinagar on November 8, 2023. (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP)

Boatmen row their boat in the Jhelum River amid foggy conditions in Srinagar on November 8, 2023. (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP)

Activists and pro-Palestinian participants light candles during the vigil event “Honour of All the Palestinian Martyrs” organised by a group of Jewish, Muslim and Christian students at the University of Cape Town lower Campus in Cape Town, on November 7, 2023. (Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP)

Activists and pro-Palestinian participants light candles during the vigil event “Honour of All the Palestinian Martyrs” organised by a group of Jewish, Muslim and Christian students at the University of Cape Town lower Campus in Cape Town, on November 7, 2023. (Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP)

A woman, dressed in clothing with designs from the Qing dynasty, walks along the moat outside the Forbidden City in Beijing on November 8, 2023. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP)

A woman, dressed in clothing with designs from the Qing dynasty, walks along the moat outside the Forbidden City in Beijing on November 8, 2023. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP)

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