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Students perform traditional dance as they take part in Pongal celebrations, the Tamil harvest festival, at a college in Chennai on January 10, 2024. (Photo by R. Satish BABU / AFP)
Mourners attend the special provincial funeral of Peter Magubane, a South African photojournalist who chronicled decades of violence during the country’s apartheid era, at the Bryanston Methodist Church in Johannesburg, 10 January 2024 Magubane died on 1 January, at the age of 91. Picture: Michel Bega/The CitizenFrench Police members of Unite SGP Police union light flares as they demonstrate in the streets asking for better working conditions ahead of the Olympic Games 2024 in Paris, France, 10 January 2024. Picture: EPA-EFE/YOAN VALATAn Indian devotee has his eyes checked during check ups at Babughat transit camp as he heads towards Gangasagar Island ahead of Ganga Sagar annual fair in Kolkata, Eastern India 10 January 2024. Ganga Sagar Fair is an annual gathering of Hindu pilgrims during Makar Sankranti at Sagar Island to take a dip in sacred waters of Ganga River before it merges in the Bay of Bengal. Picture: EPA-EFE/PIYAL ADHIKARYA car drives through a pool of water along Witkoppen Road in northern Joburg, 10 January 2024, after heavy rains in Gauteng. Picture: Michel Bega/The CitizenA refuse truck and other traffic avoid a large pool of water on Witkoppen Road in northern Joburg, 10 January 2024, after heavy rains in Gauteng. Picture: Michel Bega/The CitizenA protester reacts as demonstrators are confronted by Palestinian Authority security forces during a protest held in Ramallah as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the Palestinian president in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on January 10, 2024. Blinken’s week-long trip in the region is aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)Police forces search for victims in the burned down Asaichi market following a powerful earthquake that hit the region, in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, 10 January 2024. According to the latest data released by the Ishikawa Prefecture Government, at least 206 people were killed and 100 persons are still missing following a magnitude 7.6 earthquake, which occurred on 01 January in central Japan. About 26,000 residents in Ishikawa Prefecture have evacuated to 390 makeshift evacuation centers. Picture: EPA-EFE/JIJI PRESSA visitor to Hartbeespoort Dam looks out at the view of the dam, covered in water hyacinth, on January 10, 2024 in Hartbeespoort, South Africa. The dam functions both as a source of irrigation for farms in the area and as a tourist resort. (Photo by Gallo Images/Lefty Shivambu)Trains are parked on almost empty tracks at the main train station of Munich, southern Germany, on January 10, 2024, as German train drivers start a nationwide three-day strike from after wage talks broke down. The GDL train drivers union has announced strike action for the period from January 10 up to January 12, 2024. (Photo by LUKAS BARTH-TUTTAS / AFP)Youth getting familiar with kayaking and water at the Aqua Orientation Program at Strandfontein Pavilion on January 10, 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa. The program aims to teach the youth principles of aquatic safety, water orientation and survival techniques. (Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach)Farmers demonstrate against government plans to scrap diesel tax subsidies for agriculture vehicles in Dresden, eastern Germany, on January 10, 2024. The government already partially walked back the planned subsidy cuts. A discount on vehicle tax for agriculture would remain in place, while a diesel subsidy would be phased out over several years instead of being abolished immediately, the government said. The agriculture sector however said the move did not go far enough and urged the government to completely reverse the plans, announced after a shock court ruling forced the government to find savings in the budget for 2024. (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)People excercise at a yard in Beijing on January 10, 2024. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP)
