24 hours in pictures, 25 March 2026
2026-03-25 - 16:30
Traditional leaders of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) join members of March and March Movement chant songs during a national campaign protest in Durban on March 25, 2026. The group calls for stronger action against illegal immigration and the deportation of undocumented foreign nationals. The protest takes place amid rising public concern over border control, law enforcement, and the government’s national policy. (Photo by RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP) A temple worker attaches name cards with wishes of Buddhist followers to lotus lanterns installed for upcoming celebrations of Buddha’s birthday at Jogyesa Temple in Seoul on March 25, 2026. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) People walk on the Paryashiy bridge, also known as the floating bridge, with a panorama of Moscow in the background, in central Moscow on March 24, 2026. (Photo by Igor IVANKO / AFP) Peru’s presidential candidate Roberto Sanchez, for the Juntos por el Peru party, looks on as he arrives at the Lima Convention Center ahead of the second round of debates on tackling crime and corruption in Lima on March 24, 2026. Peru will hold presidential elections on April 12. (Photo by Connie FRANCE / AFP) A banner bearing the image of Hassan Nasrallah (L), the assassinated leader of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah, hangs outside a shop on a street littered with building debris at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs on March 25, 2026. Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East war when Iran-backed Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel on March 2 to avenge the killing of Iran’s supreme leader. Israel has since launched strikes across Lebanon, killing at least 1,039 people and displacing more than a million others, and sent ground troops into the country’s south. (Photo by AFP) Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala and Police Officers appear at Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on March 25, 2026 in Pretoria, South Africa. It is reported that the suspects face charges of corruption, fraud, and contravening the Public Finance Management Act, after allegedly taking part in an irregular tender awarded to Cat Matlala’s Medicare24 Tshwane District. (Photo by Gallo Images/Frennie Shivambu) Family members perform the funeral of Harish Rana, India’s first national who was authorized by the Supreme Court to undergo passive euthanasia, at a crematorium in New Delhi on March 25, 2026, a day after his life support was withdrawn. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) A man browses Cuba flags and clothing for sale at the “Cuba Libre” demonstration in the city of Hialeah, Florida, on March 24, 2026. (Photo by GIORGIO VIERA / AFP) A woman exercises on the waterfront of the Yalu river in the Chinese border city of Dandong, in China’s northeast Liaoning province, as the North Korean town of Sinuiju is seen behind on March 25, 2026. Passenger rail travel between China and North Korea resumed on March 12, after a pause of more than six years triggered by the COVID-19 outbreak. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) Saline Dlamini, MP Sibonelo Nomvalo, Alen Nkuna and MP Nhlamulo Ndlela brief the media on key developments and outline the roadmap towards the 2026 Local Government Elections at CedarWoods of Sandton on March 25, 2026 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This follows the National Officials Meetings held on the 22nd and 23rd of March. (Photo by Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo) This picture shows a storage yard of imported bauxite from Guinea that was unloaded from ships at Yantai port, in China’s eastern Shandong province on March 25, 2026, where it awaits loading onto trains for delivery to electrolytic aluminum companies. (Photo by CN-STR / AFP) This aerial view shows people gathering at Mayo Square on the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the last military dictatorship (1976-1983) in Buenos Aires on March 24, 2026. In Argentina, March 24th is a day of mourning, marches and political disputes. Fifty years on from the coup d’etat, thousands of people are taking to the streets again to commemorate the victims of a dictatorship that the government of far-right leader Javier Milei is seeking to rewrite. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO / AFP) MORE: 24 hours in pictures, 24 March 2026