24 hours in pictures, 20 April 2021

News in pictures

News in pictures

: Scorched trees and bushes are seen as a fire burns on the slopes of Table Mountain. Picture: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

: Orchard Kligenberg, one of the five accused appearing in the Piet Retief Magistrates court during their bail hearing for the case relating to the Coka brothers deaths, 20 April 2021, Mkhondo, Mpumalanga. Picture: Jacques Nelles

: Former Prasa CEO, Lucky Montana at the State Capture Commission in Braamfontein, 20 April 2021. Picture: Neil McCartney

: WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 20: Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) (L) speaks next to Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) as U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) is seated to testify during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on voting rights on Capitol Hill on April 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Among the other witnesses who will testify are U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT); Stacey Abrams, Founder, Fair Fight Action; and Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Evelyn Hockstein- Pool/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by POOL / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

: WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 20: Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) speaks during a press conference following a House Republican caucus meeting on Capitol Hill on April 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. The House Republican members spoke about the Biden administration’s immigration policies and the coronavirus pandemic. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Sarah Silbiger / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

: A Ukrainian serviceman stands at his position on the frontline with Russian-backed seperatists near the small city of Marinka, Donetsk region, on April 20, 2021. – An emergency meeting between Russia, Ukraine and separatists was under way on April 20, 2021, in an effort to defuse soaring tensions over Russia’s troop buildup along the ex-Soviet country’s borders. A spokesman for the Ukrainian delegation told AFP that progress had been made on efforts to restore a ceasefire that was agreed last July but upended by a recent spate of clashes between Ukrainian troops and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. (Photo by Aleksey Filippov / AFP)

: Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) greets Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan before a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. – Members of President Biden’s cabinet are testifying about the American Jobs Plan, the administration’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan that has yet to win over a single Republican in Congress. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla / POOL / AFP)

: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (L, bottom) shows his vaccination card after being inoculated with the first dose of the Astra Zeneca vaccine against COVID-19 after his daily morning press conference at the National Palace, next to his Health Minister Jorge Alcocer (R, top) in Mexico City on April 20, 2021. (Photo by PEDRO PARDO / AFP)

: Scottish National Party (SNP) candidate Angus Robertson, campaigns in the Edinburgh Central constituency in Edinburgh, Scotland, on April 20, 2021, ahead of the upcoming Scottish Parliament election which is to be held on May 6, 2021. (Photo by Andy Buchanan / POOL / AFP)

: Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Nicola Sturgeon, wearing a face covering due to Covid-19, campaigns in the Edinburgh Central constituency in Edinburgh, Scotland, on April 20, 2021, ahead of the upcoming Scottish Parliament election which is to be held on May 6, 2021. (Photo by Andy Buchanan / POOL / AFP)

: Security guards stand outside English Premier League club Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium in London on April 20, 2021, as supporters critical of the idea of a New European Super League stage protests ahead of Chelsea’s game against Brighton. – The 14 Premier League clubs not involved in the proposed European Super League “unanimously and vigorously rejected” the plans at an emergency meeting on Tuesday. Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur are the English clubs involved. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

: Flags bearing the colours of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party flutter outside the CDU headquarters on April 20, 2021 in Berlin. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

: Folk artists perform durign a Trinamool Congress (TMC) party event ahead of the sixth phase of West Bengal’s state legislative assembly elections in Kolkata on April 20, 2021. (Photo by Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP)

: A group of supporters hold placards critical of the idea of a New European Super League, outside English Premier League club Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium in London on April 20, 2021, ahead of their game against Brighton. – The 14 Premier League clubs not involved in the proposed European Super League “unanimously and vigorously rejected” the plans at an emergency meeting on Tuesday. Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur are the English clubs involved. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

: Libya’s interim prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah (C) receives his Egyptian counterpart Mostafa Madbouly (L) at the prime minister’s office in the capital Tripoli on April 20, 2021. (Photo by Mahmud TURKIA / AFP)

: Folk artists perform durign a Trinamool Congress (TMC) party event ahead of the sixth phase of West Bengal’s state legislative assembly elections in Kolkata on April 20, 2021. (Photo by Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP)

: A Ukrainian serviceman uses a periscope on the frontline with Russian-backed seperatists near the small city of Marinka, Donetsk region, on April 20, 2021. – An emergency meeting between Russia, Ukraine and separatists was under way on April 20, 2021, in an effort to defuse soaring tensions over Russia’s troop buildup along the ex-Soviet country’s borders. A spokesman for the Ukrainian delegation told AFP that progress had been made on efforts to restore a ceasefire that was agreed last July but upended by a recent spate of clashes between Ukrainian troops and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. (Photo by Aleksey Filippov / AFP)

: A general view of the Kamorteiro bridge that collapsed in the Talatona neighbourhood of Luanda, Angola, on April 20, 2021, after the heavy rains on April 19, 2021. – Flash floods triggered by torrential rains killed 14 people and displaced around 8,000 others in the Angolan capital Luanda on April 19, 2021 the national news agency has reported. (Photo by Osvaldo Silva / AFP)

: Priests carry the Seto Machindranath, Nepal’s patron deity, during a charriot festival in Kathmandu on April 20, 2021. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP)

: Garbage, including plastic waste, is seen at the beach of Costa del Este, in Panama City, on April 19, 2021. – Every two weeks, Marine Biology students descend about five meters in the sea to take care of a coral nursery of the staghorn species (Acropora cervicornis) in Portobelo, Panama, with which they aim to restore reefs damaged by climate change and pollution, as part of the Reef2Reef project. (Photo by Luis ACOSTA / AFP)