Through the lens: The Citizen's Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.
A racegoer attends Royal Ascot on Ladies Day in Ascot, Britain, 19 June 2025. The horse race meeting and social event runs daily from 17 to 21 June 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/NEIL HALL
Nurses walk along a balcony corrider past a first responder filming with a phone as smoke billows from a building at Soroka Hospital following an Iranian missile attack in Beersheba in southern Israel on June 19, 2025. Soroka Hospital and two towns near Tel Aviv were struck after a barrage of Iranian missiles early on June 19, with rescuers reporting at least 47 people injured in the latest attacks. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)A man dressed as a Dancing Devil of Chuao stands for a picture on a cocoa plantation during the second day of the Corpus Christi celebration in Chuao, Venezuela, on June 19, 2025. The Venezuelan Dancing Devils of Corpus Christi were recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2012. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP)Female artists speak with visitors at an exhibition organized by the Union of Women Painters in Kabul, Afghanistan, 19 June 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/SAMIULLAH POPALFormer MK Party SG Floyd Shivambu briefs the media at Mhulu Luxury Boutique Hotel on June 19, 2025 in Midrand, South Africa. This comes after Floyd Shivambu was removed from his position as uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party Secretary-General a few weeks back. (Photo by Gallo Images/Fani Mahuntsi)Palestinians leave their cars to seek cover from tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during a military operation in the Balata refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus, 19 June 2025. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, at least 30 Palestinians were wounded during the second day of the Israeli operation in the camp. Picture: EPA-EFE/ALAA BADARNEHMembers of ActionSA during a protest demanding the removal of National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Head , Advocate Shamila Batohi outside the offices of the Department of Justice And Constitutional Development on June 19, 2025 in Pretoria, South Africa. Opposition parties have slammed the NPA for failing to successfully prosecute those implicated in state capture and botched extradition matters. (Photo by Gallo Images/Frennie Shivambu)People attend the Corpus Christi procession, which, in addition to Roman Catholics, also included Greek Catholics with their clergy, in Przemysl, Poland, 19 June 2025. Celebrations of the Feast of the Holy Body and Blood of Christ are taking place throughout Poland, one of the most important holidays in the Catholic Church. Picture: EPA-EFE/Darek DelmanowiczFans collect autographs from the South Africa men’s Cricket Team players during a meet and greet event, 19 June 2025, at the Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton after the team won the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Test Championship at Lord’s over the weekend. Picture: Michel Bega/The CitizenVehicles travel through a flooded street in Juchit Mexico, 19 June 2025. Hurricane Erick, the first of the 2025 season in the Mexican Pacific, made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane and weakened to a tropical storm after passing through the state of Guerrero, in southern Mexico, causing material damage but no casualties. Picture: EPA-EFE/LUIS VILLALOBOSCuban artist Daldo Marto performs at the launch of the “Art Brut” exhibition, as part of the ‘Grand Palais d’Ete’ (Summer of the Grand Palais) in Paris, France, 19 June 2025. The event gives the public free access to the exhibitions of the fully restored monument and runs from 11 June to 21 September 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSONA person holds flags during a demonstration for peace in Iran and Gaza; in Caracas, Venezuela, 19 June 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/MIGUEL GUTIERREZ
