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Olivia Davis attends the Daily Front Row’s Fashion Los Angeles Awards at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, USA, 28 April 2024. Picture: EPA-EFE/ALLISON DINNER
People wearing costumes from the Roman Empire period perform within the ‘Rome Days’ festival during the special edition ‘Atlantic Olympic Games’ inside the Roman Amphitheater of El Djem in Mahdia governorate, south of Tunis, Tunisia, 28 April 2024. The Roman Days highlight daily life at Thysdrus at the time of Roman domination in Tunisia. The Roman Amphitheater of El Djem is the largest colosseum in North Africa. The 7th El Jem Roman Days took place on April 27 and 28. Picture: EPA-EFE/MOHAMED MESSARAMembers from a private security for specialising in evictions stand on a truck during an eviction operation in the Lindokuhle informal settlement in Rosherville, Johannesburg, on April 29, 2024. (Photo by Shiraaz MOHAMED / AFP)The sculpture ‘About memories II-VI’ by Spanish artist Samuel Salcedo at the international outdoor art exhibition ‘Bad Ragartz’ in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, 28 April 2024 (issued 29 April 2024). The exhibition officially opens on 04 May and runs until 30 October. Artworks by 88 artists are on display. Picture: EPA-EFE/GIAN EHRENZELLERStriking Post Office workers outside the department of communication and Technologies in Hatfield, Pretoria, 29 April 2024, for the unpaid pension fund which was deducted from employees but not deposited into the fund since 2020. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/The CitizenGreece’s Maria Sakkari returns a ball to Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia during the 2024 WTA Tour Madrid Open tournament last sixteen tennis match at Caja Magica in Madrid on April 29, 2024. (Photo by OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP)To new beginnings… Newly-wed couple Mamta and Kershan Bhajan are seen taking a ride on the popular Gondola at the Durban Point Waterfront Canal after tying the knot at a local Hindu temple this weekend. This unique activity organised by Zulumoon Gondola serves to be a major attraction for young newly weds during wedding season of April and May and amongst local and international tourists boosting the local economy of the province of Kwazulu-Natal. Picture: Rajesh JantilalPeople attend the Moscow Half Marathon near Moscow Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, 29 April 2024. The Moscow Half Marathon is the largest race in Russia at a distance of 21.1 km. The route of the Moscow Half Marathon runs in one circle along the Moscow embankments of Luzhnetskaya, Frunzenskaya, Prechistenskaya, Kremlyovskaya, Kotelnicheskaya and Krasnokholmskaya. Picture: EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOVThe historic three-masted sailing ship named Belem, which transfers the Olympic Flame for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to the port of Marseille, crosses the canal of the Corinth Isthmus, Peloponnese, Greece, 28 April 2024. The Olympic Flame is expected to arrive in the port of Marseille on 08 May. Picture: EPA-EFE/VASSILIS PSOMASMembers of the Samaritan community attend a religious service marking the end of their Passover holiday atop Mount Gerizim, above the West Bank city of Nablus, 29 April 2024. According to tradition, the Samaritans are descendants of the Jews who were not deported when the Assyrians conquered Israel in 722 BC. The small community numbers about 810 people, half of them live in a village at Mount Gerizim, near the Palestinian city of Nablus, and the rest in Holon near Tel Aviv in Israel. Nablus, and the rest in Holon near Tel Aviv in Israel. Picture: EPA-EFE/ATEF SAFADIA girl looks on next to a damaged car buried in mud in an area heavily affected by torrential rains and flash floods in the village of Kamuchiri, near Mai Mahiu, on April 29, 2024. At least 45 people died when a dam burst its banks near a town in Kenya’s Rift Valley, police said on April 29, 2024, as torrential rains and floods battered the country. The disaster raises the total death toll over the March-May wet season in Kenya to more than 120 as heavier than usual rainfall pounds East Africa, compounded by the El Nino weather pattern. (Photo by LUIS TATO / AFP)A woman seeks blessing as a group of priests take part in a chariot festival of Sri Parthasarthy Swamy temple in Chennai on April 29, 2024. (Photo by R. Satish BABU / AFP)Julio (L) and Mike (R), members of the wild swimming group Sheffield Outdoor Plungers take part in ‘extreme ironing’ during a mass trespass swim at Kinder Reservoir, Britain, 28 April 2024. Each year swimmers gather at Kinder Reservoir and other locations to protest against the exclusion of swimmers from English waterways and reservoirs. The swim is timed to commemorate the Kinder Scout Trespass of 1932 when hundreds of activists trespassed on privately owned land to claim rights of access and highlight the fencing off of open countryside by wealthy landowners. Picture: EPA-EFE/ADAM VAUGHANDisability campaigners from “Distant Voices and Not Dead” hold a demonstration outside Westminster Hall in central London, on April 29, 2024, protesting against proposals to legalise assisted suicide in the UK. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP)Bangladeshi dancers perform at central Shaheed Minar as they celebrate International Dance Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 29 April 2024. The Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) established 29 April as International Dance Day in 1982, to highlight the diversity and talent of dancers all over the globe. Picture: EPA-EFE/MONIRUL ALAM
