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Funzi Ngobeni arrives at an event held at Newtown Junction to announce that he is the ActionSA Gauteng Premier candidate, 29 February 2024. Picture: Neil McCartney / The Citizen
Watch technician Birgit Ullrich works in the German watch maker Nomos Glashuette production facility in Glashuette, Germany, 29 February 2024. EPA-EFE/JENS SCHLUETER / POOLPeople cross train rails at Sodra station one day after an accident involving a train left three people dead, in Orebro, Sweden, 29 February 2024. Three pedestrians died in an accident involving a train in central Orebro late 28 February, Swedish police said. An investigation into the incident began and the locomotive of the train was seized by the police. EPA-EFE/Henrik Gustafsson Nicander Left Block (BE) coordinator Mariana Mortagua (3-R) accompanied by the head of the Left Block list for the Porto constituency, Marisa Matias (4-R), during a visit to the old Veiga Beirao school, as part of the campaign for the legislative elections on 10 March, Portugal, 29 February 2024. On 15 January, the Portuguese president decreed the dissolution of parliament and called early legislative elections on 10 March, following the resignation of the Portuguese prime minister presented on 07 November 2023. EPA-EFE/FILIPE AMORIMAnastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava of Georgia perform during the Junior Pairs Free Skating of the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships at Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan, 29 February 2024. EPA-EFE/RITCHIE B. TONGOAn Israeli fighter jet flies over an area near the Lebanon-Israel border, as seen from an undisclosed location on the Israeli side of the border, 29 February 2024. The Israeli army spokesperson reported that IDF fighter jets struck a number of Hezbollah targets in the area of Jabal Blat, including launch posts and a military site in which militants operated. EPA-EFE/ATEF SAFADIA Thai drag queen poses for a photograph in front of a banner campaigning for gender equality law during the Bangkok Pride 2024 press conference in Bangkok, Thailand, 29 February 2024. Members and activists of LGBTQIA+ announced holding the annual Bangkok Pride on 01 June 2024 under the ‘Celebration of Love’ concept to promote the diversity and equal rights for all members in the society as well as to celebrate the expected legalization of same-sex marriage law. Thai lawmakers passed draft bills in December 2023 to legalize same-sex marriage, which if passed a final vote will make Thailand the first Southeast Asia country to legalize same-sex marriage. EPA-EFE/RUNGROJ YONGRITFlowers are seen during a visit of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock of the former Nazi concentration camp of Ravensbrueck, in Fuerstenberg, Germany, 29 February 2024. In the Prussian village of Ravensbrueck the SS set up the largest women’s concentration camp on German territory from 1939. Between 1939 and 1945 some 132,000 women and children, some 20,000 men and 1,000 girls were registered as prisoners of the camp. EPA-EFE/HANNIBAL HANSCHKEA general view of buildings at the Paris 2024 Olympic village on its inauguration day in Saint-Denis, northern Paris, France, 29 February 2024. The village, constructed on a 52-hectare site is located on a cluster of former industrial wastelands with the centerpiece being the Cite du Cinema. EPA-EFE/LUDOVIC MARIN / POOL Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual address to the Federal Assembly at the Gostiny Dvor conference center in Moscow, Russia, 29 February 2024. About 1,200 people, including lawmakers of Russia’s two-chamber parliament, Government members, heads of the Constitutional and Supreme court, and regional governors, were invited to attend the event. EPA-EFE/DMITRY ASTAKHOV / SPUTNIK / GOVERNMENT PRESS SERVICE POOLA woman takes pictures during the preview of the exhibition ‘Giacomo Matteotti, life and death of a father of democracy’ at Palazzo Brasch in Rome, Italy, 29 February 2024. Italian socialist politician Giacomo Matteotti (1885-1924) openly denounced in the Italian Parliament the violence and fraud committed by the Italian fascists in the 1924 general election and was kidnapped and killed days later. EPA-EFE/FABIO CIMAGLIAGerman Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock passes an oven of the crematory during a visit of the former Nazi concentration camp of Ravensbrueck, in Fuerstenberg, Germany, 29 February 2024. In the Prussian village of Ravensbrueck the SS set up the largest women’s concentration camp on German territory from 1939. Between 1939 and 1945 some 132,000 women and children, some 20,000 men and 1,000 girls were registered as prisoners of the camp. EPA-EFE/HANNIBAL HANSCHKEepa11188404 Devotees dance during the annual celebrations at the shrine of Muslim Sufi Saint Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan Sharif, Pakistan, 29 February 2024. Urs (death anniversary) of the Sufi saint will be commemorated for three days and the devotees will experience Sindhi traditional wrestling. Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (1177-1274) was a Persian (Tajik) Sufi saint, philosopher, poet, and qalandar. Born Syed Usman Shah Marwandi, he belonged to the Suhrawardiyya order of Sufis. Thousands of pilgrims visit his shrine every year, especially on the occasion of his Urs. EPA-EFE/NADEEM KHAWARA visitor touches a device at the Fira Barcelona exhibition center in Barcelona, Catalonia, north-eastern Spain, 29 February 2024. MWC Barcelona, the largest event for the connectivity ecosystem, will run from 26 to 29 February. EPA-EFE/Enric FontcubertaStudents chant slogans as they march through the city centre during an education-sector protest rally in Athens, Greece, 29 February 2024. Greek students protest for 8th consecutive week against governmental plans to vote a bill next week allowing the formation and operation of private universities in Greece. EPA-EFE/KOSTAS TSIRONISGallery assistants pose with a painting titled ‘Portrait of Princess Diana’ by US artist Andy Warhol during a press preview for 20th Century & Contemporary Art Auctions by Phillips auction house in London, Britain, 29 February 2024. EPA-EFE/TOLGA AKMENGallery assistants pose with a painting titled ‘Luck Just Kissed You Hello’ by English artist Cecily Brown during a a press preview for 20th Century & Contemporary Art Auctions by Phillips auction house in London, Britain, 29 February 2024. EPA-EFE/TOLGA AKMEN
