Attendees applaud after the announcement of the UAE consensus during a closing plenary of COP28, or the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Dec. 13, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Dongzhen)
Liu Wei (1st R) and Ding Ning (1st L), both former world champions, play with table tennis enthusiasts in a friendly game during an event held by the Chinese Embassy in the United States to commemorate the 52nd anniversary of Ping-Pong Diplomacy in Washington, D.C., the United States, Dec. 13, 2023. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
Russian President Vladimir Putin waits to answer questions from a correspondent of Xinhua News Agency during his annual press conference and question-and-answer session in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 14, 2023. (Xinhua/Cao Yang)
European Council President Charles Michel (C) prepares to talk with the media after the first day's meeting of European Union (EU) leaders in Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 15, 2023. EU leaders agreed on Dec. 14 to open EU accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova and to grant candidate status to Georgia. (Xinhua/Zhao Dingzhe)
The European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde attends a meeting of the Eurogroup in Brussels, Belgium, May 15, 2023. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)
Palestinians flee the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, Dec. 22, 2023. (Xinhua)
King Charles III and Queen Camilla return to Buckingham Palace after the coronation service at Westminster Abbey in London, Britain, May 6, 2023. Charles III was crowned monarch of the United Kingdom (UK) and 14 other Commonwealth realms in the UK's first coronation since 1953 at Westminster Abbey in central London on May 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Ying)
French gendarmes and riot police members stand guard in front of the Constitutional Council during a demonstration against a pensions reform plan in Paris, France, April 13, 2023. (Photo by Aurelien Morissard/Xinhua)
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrives at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 1, 2023. Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT) was sworn in as president of Brazil for a four-year term on Jan. 1, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Tiancong)
Chinese tourists are welcomed upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, Feb. 11, 2023. A flight carrying 40 Chinese group tourists arrived at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi on Feb. 11. This is the first outbound tour group from China to Kenya since China resumed outbound group travel to 20 countries. (Xinhua/Han Xu)
This photo taken on May 20, 2023 shows a view of the Popocatepetl volcano observed from San Nicolas de los Ranchos, State of Puebla, Mexico. (Photo by Osvaldo Cantero/Xinhua)
People protest against Japan's planned discharge of radioactive wastewater in Seoul, South Korea, June 12, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Yiliang)
A visitor shakes hands with an intelligent robot at Hannover Messe 2023 in Hannover, Germany, April 19, 2023. (Xinhua/Ren Pengfei)
A pedestrian walks amid smoke caused by wildfires in Canada near One World Trade Center in New York, the United States, June 7, 2023. Smoke from raging wildfires in Canada has triggered air quality alerts in a number of U.S. states, with the sky over New York City rapidly darkening. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) waves to the crowd in Ankara, Türkiye on May 29, 2023. Erdogan was declared the winner of the presidential election on May 28, sending him to another five years in office. (Mustafa Kaya/Handout via Xinhua)
The FSO Safer tanker is seen at Ras Issa port in Hodeidah province, Yemen, on May 30, 2023.
The Safer tanker, marooned off the port of Hodeidah since 2015, had been a ticking time bomb containing approximately 1.1 million barrels of oil. As the vessel's condition continued to deteriorate, concerns escalated regarding the potential for a devastating oil spill.
The ship-to-ship transfer from the decaying FSO Safer to a replacement tanker began on July 25 and safely concluded on Aug. 11, avoiding what the United Nations warned could have been a devastating environmental catastrophe. (Photo by Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua)
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Alireza Bigdeli (front) and Saudi Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Consular Affairs Ali Al-Yousef (C) attend a ribbon cutting at the opening ceremony of the Iranian embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on June 6, 2023. Iran reopened its embassy in Saudi Arabia on June 6. (Xinhua/Wang Haizhou)
A solar eclipse is observed in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 20, 2023. (Xinhua/Veri Sanovri)
This photo taken on April 18, 2023 shows a street view after armed conflicts in Khartoum, Sudan. Fierce fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 15. (Photo by Mohamed Khidir/Xinhua)
This photo taken on June 3, 2023 shows the site of a train collision in Balasore district of the eastern Indian state of Odisha. Nearly 300 people were killed and more than 1,000 others were injured in the major accident. (Xinhua/Javed Dar)
Lao staff members stage a performance aboard train No. D887, the first cross-border passenger train from Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan Province to the Lao capital Vientiane, on April 13, 2023. The China-Laos Railway started cross-border passenger services on April 13, a move that is expected to boost regional connectivity. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attends a press conference in Washington, D.C., the United States on May 3, 2023. The U.S. Federal Reserve raised the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 5-5.25 percent on May 3, saying that the Fed "remains highly attentive to inflation risks." (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
Harvesters collect fresh tea leaves at a tea garden near Nairobi, Kenya, May 4, 2023. Originating from China, tea has become popular around the world. Kenya is a leading exporter of black tea worldwide. Growing and producing tea is an important source of income for the local people. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)
Honduran boys are pictured at a local park in Santa Cruz, Honduras, May 30, 2023. (Photo by Lucio Tavora/Xinhua)
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (L) shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a welcome ceremony prior to the 32nd Arab League Summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2023. Arab foreign ministers decided in an Arab League (AL) extraordinary meeting held in Cairo on May 7 to restore Syria's membership in the league after 12 years of suspension, said a final statement after the meeting. (Saudi Press Agency/Handout via Xinhua)
People make preparations for a turtledove chirping contest in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, May 6, 2023. (Photo by Agung Supriyanto/Xinhua)
Finnish President Sauli Niinisto speaks at a ceremony marking Finland's accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, April 4, 2023. Finland on April 4 formally became the 31st member state of the NATO, ending its military non-alignment in the fastest accession procedure in record time. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)
Serbian government officials attend a ceremony marking the Remembrance Day of victims of the 1999 NATO aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Sombor, Serbia, March 24, 2023. (Xinhua/Shi Zhongyu)
Hot air balloons leave the ground during Balloons over Waikato, a hot air balloon festival, in Hamilton, New Zealand, March 15, 2023. (Xinhua/Guo Lei)
Liu Yimenghan, a member of Dream Building Service Association (DBSA), a non-governmental organization founded in 2014, donates books to students while promoting the habit of reading at a school in the Mathare slums in Nairobi, Kenya, April 19, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)
People dance during a celebration marking the 78th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War, Russia's term for World War II, in Vladivostok, Russia, May 9, 2023. (Photo by Guo Feizhou/Xinhua)
Protesters rally at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in a protest against the upcoming Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima, Japan, May 18, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)
People queue up outside the headquarters of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in Santa Clara, California, the United States, March 13, 2023. The SVB was closed on March 10 by regulators. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)
Migrants wait outside a migrant camp in Reynosa, Mexico, May 16, 2023. (Xinhua/Xin Yuewei)
This aerial photo taken on Feb. 19, 2023 shows burnt-down houses after a fire in Quezon City, the Philippines. About 500 families lost their homes due to the fire which occurred late on Feb. 18. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
A man navigated himself in a kayak on a flooded road in Auckland, New Zealand, Feb. 14, 2023. The New Zealand government declared a National State of Emergency on Feb. 14 before Cyclone Gabrielle unleashed its full fury. (Photo by Zhao Gang/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Jan. 5, 2023 shows the empty chair of the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., the United States. The U.S. House of Representatives elected Congressman Kevin McCarthy as speaker on the early morning of Jan. 7, 2023 after a historic deadlock that kept the lower chamber from being fully functional days after the new Congress convened. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
Visitors try on Virtual Reality (VR) devices during Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 27, 2023. (Xinhua/Meng Dingbo)
A demonstrator holds a slogan during an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C., the United States, Feb. 19, 2023. Hundreds of protesters slammed America's role of "war machine" in overseas wars at the rally. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
People conduct rescue work after an earthquake in Malatya, Türkiye, on Feb. 6, 2023. A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck the southern region of Türkiye near the Syrian border on Feb. 6, causing heavy casualties. (Mustafa Kaya/Handout via Xinhua)
This aerial photo taken on Feb. 26, 2023 shows flamingos hovering over a lake near Ankara, Türkiye. (Mustafa Kaya/Handout via Xinhua)
A pigeon is pictured among the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Oct. 26, 2023. (Photo by Yasser Qudih/Xinhua)
Javier Milei from the far-right Liberty Advances coalition reacts at a poll station in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 19, 2023. Javier Milei has won Argentina's presidential runoff against Economy Minister Sergio Massa. (Photo by Martin Zabala/Xinhua)
Posters of Israeli hostages held by Hamas are pictured at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on Nov. 7, 2023. (Xinhua/Chen Junqing)
People participate in celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of Türkiye in Ankara, Türkiye, Oct. 29, 2023. (Mustafa Kaya/Handout via Xinhua)
Palestinians conduct rescue work among destroyed buildings after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, on Oct. 25, 2023. (Photo by Yasser Qudih/Xinhua)
People ride the Holiday Nostalgia Train in New York, the United States, Dec. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Rui)
This photo taken on Feb. 27, 2023 shows the Aurora Australis, also known as the Southern Lights, seen from Fox Glacier on the west coast of the South Island, New Zealand. (Photo by Yang Liu/Xinhua)
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to Congress in Washington, D.C., the United States, Feb. 7, 2023. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
A member of the China Search and Rescue Team carries out operation on earthquake debris in Antakya in the southern province of Hatay, Türkiye, Feb. 9, 2023. A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck the southern region of Türkiye near the Syrian border on Feb. 6. An 82-member Chinese rescue team arrived in the quake-hit Hatay province on Feb. 8 to assist in rescue efforts. (Xinhua/Shadati)
A train equipped with coaches imported from China arrives at a railway station in Islamabad, Pakistan, Jan. 27, 2023. Pakistan Railways announced on Jan. 27, 2023 that the China-imported coaches would run as Green Line Express train from the capital city of Islamabad to the country's southern port city of Karachi, passing through major cities across Punjab and Sindh provinces. (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal)
People take photos of the first sunrise of 2023 in Oarai town, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, Jan. 1, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)
A lion dance is performed to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year with the London Eye lit up in red in the background in London, Britain, Jan. 13, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Ying)
People visit "Tutankhamun - The Immersive Exhibition" at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, on Nov. 20, 2023. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)
Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from Netivot, southern Israel, Oct. 20, 2023. (Xinhua/Chen Junqing)
This photo taken on Sept. 21, 2023 shows the historical sites in the ancient city of Khiva, Uzbekistan. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)
Kunqu Opera actor Shi Xiaming (L) and actress Kong Aiping stage a flash mob performance near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, Sept. 13, 2023. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)
This photo taken on Aug. 17, 2023 shows high-speed electrical multiple unit (EMU) trains of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway in Bandung, Indonesia. As a landmark project of the Belt and Road Initiative and cooperation between China and Indonesia, the new 142.3-km railway line shortens train trip between Jakarta and Bandung from more than three hours to about 40 minutes. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)
This photo taken on Oct. 17, 2023 shows thick clouds in San Francisco, the United States. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)
Former U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Henry A. Kissinger speaks at the annual Gala Dinner of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR) in New York, the United States, on Oct. 24, 2023. Henry Kissinger died on Nov. 29 at home in Connecticut at the age of 100. (Xinhua/Li Rui)
A man holds a girl in his arms while evacuating from a building destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on Oct. 12, 2023. (Photo by Khaled Omar/Xinhua)
Visitors attend a new product launching event of Huawei in Barcelona, Spain, on Sept. 14, 2023. (Photo by Joan Gosa/Xinhua)
Indonesian President Joko Widodo (front) presses a button signifying the official operation of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway during a ceremony at Halim Station in Jakarta, Indonesia, Oct. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)
A man walks among the rubble of a destroyed building after a massive earthquake in Tahannaout, Morocco, on Sept. 9, 2023. A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Morocco on Sept. 8 at 11:11 p.m. local time (2211 GMT) at a depth of 18.5 km, said the United States Geological Survey. (Photo by Saouri Aissa/Xinhua)
Chinese naval hospital ship "Peace Ark" leaves Tarawa, Kiribati after completing friendly visits and humanitarian medical services to Kiribati, July 22, 2023. (Photo by Gui Jiangbo/Xinhua)
Fireworks are set off around the Eiffel Tower during the annual Bastille Day in Paris, France, July 14, 2023. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)
This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2023 shows a "No Swimming" warning sign at Tsurishihama beach in Shinchi town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Japan started releasing nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean on Aug. 24, disregarding public concerns and strong opposition from both home and abroad. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)
People give cheers of hurrah during a military parade at Kim Il Sung Square in central Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), on July 27, 2023 in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the victory of the country's Fatherland Liberation War. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei)
Kelvin Josephat Kituruka (front), a native of Mwanza who joined the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) as a quality engineer, helps local villagers with access to drinking water in Misungwi of Mwanza Region, Tanzania, June 13, 2023. The Chinese company constructed the water supply project for satellite cities in Mwanza to meet the water demands of approximately 150,000 local residents and the water cost has also dropped to one-fifth of the original. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)
A worker is seen in fire-ravaged Lahaina town, Maui Island, Hawaii, the United States, Aug. 22, 2023. The wildfires in Maui are the deadliest wildfires in the United States in more than a century, and the worst natural disaster in Hawaii's history. (Xinhua/Gao Shan)
A souvenir shop remains open at sunset in Nalaikh District of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, on Aug. 18, 2023. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)
This aerial photo taken on Sept. 7, 2023 shows the Pattaya Floating Market where a fire broke out in Pattaya, Thailand. (Xinhua)
Giant panda Ai Bao and its cubs are pictured at Everland Resort in Yongin, South Korea, July 7, 2023. (Everland Resort/Handout via Xinhua)
Actor Tony Leung Chiu-Wai of Hong Kong, China wipes his tears when he is awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at an award ceremony during the 80th Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Sept. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Jin Mamengni)
A firefighter battles a wildfire in Hasia village near Athens, Greece, Aug. 22, 2023. (Photo by Marios Lolos/Xinhua)
