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A sculpture celebrating the beauty of women by renowned Chinese artist Xu Hongfei is seen at Mary Fitzgerald Square, in Johannesburg, 20 September 2023. The exhibition, featuring a number of women sculptures, is open for viewing till 22 September. This is Xu Hongfei’s first exhibition in Africa and the pieces will be moving to Cape Town and Durban too. This is the 50th stop in the exhibitions worldwide tour. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen
The Little Amal puppet interacts with a child as she travels down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, 19 September 2023. The 12-foot-tall puppet of a Syrian refugee child, will travel 6,000 miles (9700 km) across the United States to raise awareness of children displaced by war. Picture: EPA-EFE/WILL OLIVERUncollected Waste Piles on September 19, 2023 in Pretoria, South Africa. The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) strike has been ongoing for almost two months because of the city’s decision not to increase wages this financial year. (Photo by Gallo Images/Lefty Shivambu)Bush car wash at Soshanguve Block HH at Soshanguve in Pretoria, 20 September 2023, was damaged by a storm with accompanying high winds. Picture: Nigel SibandaA woman walks through rubble in earthquake-hit village of Emi-Ntala, Marrakech, Morocco, 20 September 2023. A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Morocco late September 08, killing nearly 3,000 people and damaging buildings from villages and towns in the Atlas Mountains to Marrakech, according to a report issued by the country’s Ministry of Interior. Picture: EPA-EFE/JALAL MORCHIDIA dog of the canine unit of the Navy and members of Mexican Red Cross participate in the national seismic drill in Mexico City, Mexico, 19 September 2023. Over nine million people across Mexico took part in the drill, which is carried out annually to mark the 1985 and 2017 earthquakes, the two most destructive in the country’s recent history and which occurred both on 19 September. Picture: EPA-EFE/ISAAC ESQUIVELSouth African firefighters are seen outside the premises of a South African Revenue Service (SARS) building in Marshalltown, Johannesburg on September 20, 2023. (Photo by Luca SOLA / AFP)A huge balloon doll made by Israeli artist Pilpeled is displayed on the building of the Imperial Hotel, hosting a pop-up exhibition curated by the Tel Aviv Pop-Up Museum, in central Tel Aviv, Israel, 20 September 2023. A total of 58 artists took over 38 rooms of the unused hotel and turned its rooms into exhibits of a temporary art museum during this year’s pop-up exhibition, which invites the artists to explore their ‘private UTOPIA’. Picture: EPA-EFE/ABIR SULTANBritain’s King Charles III (L), and French President Emmanuel Macron (R) attend a remembrance ceremony at Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, 20 September 2023. The visit, initially planned for March and postponed because of unrests in France, leads the king and queen of Great Britain to Paris and Bordeaux and includes a state dinner, official appointments with President Macron and more informal meetings with French and British citizens. Picture: EPA-EFE/YOAN VALAT/POOLIndigenous people watch the broadcast of a trial on the so-called ‘temporal framework’ (Marco Temporal, or time limit) legal thesis over Indigenous ancestral land rights on a giant screen installed in front of the Supreme Federal Court in Brasilia, Brazil, 20 September 2023. Brazil’s top court resumed the trial concerning the ancestral land rights of Indigenous groups and the constitutionality of laws that would limit their ability to gain protected status for their lands. The decision could have a significant impact on the recognition of lands that were occupied by Indigenous communities before the current Constitution was promulgated. Picture: EPA-EFE/Andre BorgesA damaged structure following a blast near a police station, in Timba, Cauca, Colombia, 20 September 2023. At least two people died and two more were injured when a car bomb exploded near a police station, hours after other attacks were perpetrated against the Colombian Army. Picture: EPA-EFE/Ernesto GuzmanArmenian police holding shields guard the government building during a protest against the government’s handling of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh region, in central Yerevan, Armenia, 20 September 2023. Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense announced on 19 September the launching of local ‘anti-terrorism’ measures against the Armenian military in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in order to restore the constitutional order of Azerbaijan and suppress the provocations of the Armenian military. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has declared in a TV address on 20 September that the military intervention in Nagorno-Karabakh is over, saying that as a result of ‘local anti-terrorist measures’, Azerbaijan has restored its sovereignty. Aliyev also announced the start of the process of withdrawing Armenian armed forces from positions in Karabakh. Picture: EPA-EFE/NAREK ALEKSANYAN
