Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.
A Blackheath resident has erected a sign that reads “Chips… kak big potholes” along Pasteur Road, seen 28 April 2026 as a vehicle navigates the pothole-damaged road. Picture: Michel Bega/The CitizenUS President Donald Trump meets with Britain’s King Charles III in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 28, 2026. (Photo by Henry NICHOLLS / AFP)Protesters chant slogans and gesture during a protest march against undocumented migrants organised by Action SA, Operation Dudula and “March and March Until We Win” in Pretoria on April 28, 2026. (Photo by EMMANUEL CROSET / AFP)Ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredi) protest against the failure to pass a legal arrangement exempting yeshiva students from mandatory military service and the issuance of draft notices to members of their community in Tel Aviv, Israel on April 28, 2026. Demonstrators lay on a main road in the Bnei Brak area of Tel Aviv, blocking traffic, while Israeli police deployed additional forces and intervened at the scene. Protesters carried banners opposing compulsory military service. (Photo by Gideon Markowicz/Anadolu via Getty Images)A couple with a dog ride a motorbike at Enqelab Square in Tehran on April 28, 2026. The White House said on April 27 it was examining Iran’s latest proposal to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, two months after a US and Israeli offensive sent shockwaves through the global economy. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)Inflatable punching bags with added pictures of Elon Musk and Sam Altman are seen outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and US Courthouse as the Musk v. Altman trial begins in Oakland, California, on April 27, 2026. Jury selection is to begin Monday in a high-profile legal battle between billionaire Elon Musk and artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, which he accuses of betraying its non-profit mission. While the lawsuit filed by Musk is part of a feud between him and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, it spotlights a debate whether AI should ultimately benefit the privileged few or society as a whole. (Photo by Karl Mondon / AFP)A kid suckles its goat mother’s milk at M’berra refugee camp, which hosts 120,000 refugees fleeing violence and instability in Mali, in the Hodh Ech Chargui region of Mauritania, on April 27, 2026. Thousands of people have died in attacks in Mali since the jihadist turmoil erupted and tens of thousands of Malians have sought refuge in neighbouring countries, including Mauritania, in recent years. (Photo by PATRICK MEINHARDT / AFP)A general view shows the city skyline and a rainbow from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building observation deck in the Shinjuku district of central Tokyo on April 27, 2026. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP)Workers sit at the site of a train collision as rescuers work to save five survivors trapped inside a carriage after a passenger train locomotive pierced through the rear car of a commuter train at Bekasi Timur station in Bekasi, West Java on April 28, 2026 (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP)People stand close to a stranded humpback whale in the Wismarer Bucht bay of the Baltic Sea off the island of Poel, northern Germany, close to the village of Faehrdorf-Hof, on April 28, 2026. A fresh rescue attempt is under way for a humpback whale which has been stranded off the country’s Baltic Sea coast for over a month. The 13-metre (over 40 foot) whale and its struggle for survival have gripped Germany since the sea mammal beached on a sandbank near the city of Luebeck, far from its natural habitat. After several initial attempts failed, two entrepreneurs came forward to finance a new rescue bid which will involve loading the cetacean onto a special barge and carrying it out to deeper waters. (Photo by Danny Gohlke / AFP)Brass musicians play music in an empty and cleaned anaerobic digester of the wastewater treatment plant “Gut Großlappen” during a press visit of the venue in Munich Freimann, Bavaria, southern Germany, on April 28, 2026. (Photo by Michaela STACHE / AFP)Locals walk past garbage piled up on a street in Havana on April 27, 2026. (Photo by Yamil LAGE / AFP)Colombian soldiers patroling the Pozos Colorados Beach are pictured ahead of the International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, on April 27, 2026. (Photo by Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP)
MORE: 24 hours in pictures, 27 April 2026
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