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Amabutho at the official opening of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Legislature at Woodburn Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. King Misuzulu kaZwelithini?s address paves the way for Premier Thami Ntuli?s State of the Province Address (SOPA) scheduled for Friday. (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)
Mzimkhulu Thebolla, Msunduzi Mayor at the official opening of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Legislature at Woodburn Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. King Misuzulu kaZwelithini?s address paves the way for Premier Thami Ntuli?s State of the Province Address (SOPA) scheduled for Friday. (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)
Floyd Shivambu, MK party secretary general at the official opening of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Legislature at Woodburn Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. King Misuzulu kaZwelithini?s address paves the way for Premier Thami Ntuli?s State of the Province Address (SOPA) scheduled for Friday. (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)
Nomagugu Simelane, KZN MEC Health at the official opening of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Legislature at Woodburn Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. King Misuzulu kaZwelithini?s address paves the way for Premier Thami Ntuli?s State of the Province Address (SOPA) scheduled for Friday. (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)
Queen Nomzamo Myeni at the official opening of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Legislature at Woodburn Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. King Misuzulu kaZwelithini?s address paves the way for Premier Thami Ntuli?s State of the Province Address (SOPA) scheduled for Friday. (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)
SPG Mbatha at the official opening of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Legislature at Woodburn Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. King Misuzulu kaZwelithini?s address paves the way for Premier Thami Ntuli?s State of the Province Address (SOPA) scheduled for Friday. (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)
A labourer works on drying vermicelli, used for a popular dessert, ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Karachi, Pakistan, 28 February 2025. The beginning of Ramadan is expected to fall on 01 March 2025, depending on the sighting of the crescent moon. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the nighttime and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. EPA-EFE/SHAHZAIB AKBER
The tundra bean gooses (Anser serrirostris) fly over Starzawa village during the spring birds migration in south-eastern Poland, 26 Fabruary 2025. EPA-EFE/DAREK DELMANOWICZ
A riot police officer is engulfed in flames from molotov cocktails thrown by protesters during clashes outside the parliament, on the sidelines a rally marking the two-year anniversary of the Tempi train crash, in central Syntagma Square, in Athens, Greece, 28 February 2025. Mass demonstrations took place across Greece to demand justice for the victims, two years after a passenger train and a freight train collided in the municipality of Tempi, northern Thessaly region on 28 February 2023, killing 57 people. EPA-EFE/GEORGE VITSARAS
South Korean officials wearing Royal Guard uniforms perform the changing of the guard ceremony at Deoksugung Palace in Seoul, South Korea, 27 February 2025. The Royal Guard Changing Ceremony is a popular spectacle for tourists visiting Seoul. EPA-EFE/JEON HEON-KYUN
Members of the Armed Forces participate in the parade for the 181st anniversary of National Independence, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 27 February 2025. EPA-EFE/ORLANDO BARRIA
The NASA Nova-C lunar lander, part of the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission, lifts off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, from the Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida, USA, 26 February 2025. As part of NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander to the Moon's surface. EPA-EFE/CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH
Muslims perform an evening prayer called 'Tarawih' on the first eve of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, 28 February 2025. The beginning of Ramadan is expected to fall on 01 March 2025, depending on the sighting of the crescent moon. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. EPA-EFE/MAST IRHAM
The jester of the Safran guild lays on the confetti-covered street during the Lucerne Carnival on Dirty Thursday, in Lucerne, Switzerland, 27 February 2025. The Lucerne Carnival runs from 27 February to 04 March 2025. EPA-EFE/PHILIPP SCHMIDLI
Masked revelers parade through the streets during the traditional Fritschi carnival parade in Lucerne, Switzerland, 27 February 2025. EPA-EFE/URS FLUEELER
Preview of the exhibition "And Now You Care" by Marco Evaristti before the opening in Den Graa Koedby in Copenhagen, Denmark, 28 February 2025. Three live piglets are in a pen made of two shopping carts and are to die either by starving or if a visitor kills them with a bolt gun. Evaristti aims to draw atention to the tens of thousands of piglets that die in pig production in Denmark. EPA-EFE/Emil Nicolai Helms
Preview of the exhibition "And Now You Care" by Marco Evaristti before the opening in Den Graa Koedby in Copenhagen, Denmark, 28 February 2025. EPA-EFE/Emil Nicolai Helms
A dog groomer takes part in an exhibition in the framework of Iberzoo professional pet animals fair at IFEMA convention center, in Madrid, Spain, 28 February 2025. EPA-EFE/Blanca Millez
An elderly Tibetan woman cooks tea before a function to mark Losar, or Tibetan New Year, in Kathmandu, Nepal, 28 February 2025. A small number of exiled Tibetans gathered to celebrate New Year in the Nepali capital. EPA-EFE/NARENDRA SHRESTHA
A faithful prays in front of the statue of Pope John Paul II outside the Gemelli University Hospital, where Pope Francis is hospitalized, in Rome, Italy, 28 February 2025. The pontiff was admitted to Rome's Gemelli Hospital on 14 February, due to a respiratory tract infection. EPA-EFE/ANGELO CARCONI. DM