24 hours in pictures: French school protests, Johannesburg power crackdown and a King Kong pumpkin display
Through the lens: The Citizen's Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.
In South Africa, Johannesburg police launched an operation targeting buildings suspected of being used for illegal activities, as part of a revenue collection drive by City Power officials. Meanwhile, in France, protesters clashed with police during demonstrations against education conditions, demanding expanded resources, improved school maintenance, smaller class sizes, and strategies to tackle staffing shortages.
The countrywide action disrupted learning at roughly 400 to 500 high schools, causing full or partial class suspensions. Adding to the unusual news events, a King Kong-inspired pumpkin sculpture towered over a pumpkin patch in California, attracting attention and curiosity from onlookers.
Brief written by urgent.news from The Citizen's own syndicated text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
Also reported by 6 other outlets
- Teenager’s hand blown off as French school protests enter third week investing.com
- Teenager's hand blown off as French school protests enter third week thenationalnews.com
- French teenager loses hand picking up police grenade in high school protests lemonde.fr
- OPINION: French student protests are a sign of a country in crisis thelocal.fr
- French high school students predict escalation of protests france24.com
- Teenager loses hand as French student protests escalate abc.net.au
