Palestinians attend Friday prayers near a mosque destroyed in Israeli strikes, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on March 1, 2024. The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 30,320, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said in a press statement on Saturday. (Photo by Khaled Omar/Xinhua)
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif (C) casts his vote during the election of new speaker of lower house at the Parliament House in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, on March 1, 2024. Sardar Ayaz Sadiq of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was elected the speaker of the National Assembly or the lower house of the country's parliament on Friday, according to an official announcement made by Raja Pervez Ashraf, the outgoing speaker. (Pakistan's National Assembly/Handout via Xinhua)
An actress performs during the Battle of the Flowers parade during the 2024 Nice Carnival in Nice, France, March 2, 2024. The 2024 Nice Carnival is held here from Feb. 17 to March 3 with the theme of "The King of Pop Culture". (Photo by Serge Haouzi/Xinhua)
People queue to use an ATM machine in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 1, 2024. Brazil's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.9 percent in 2023, according to data released by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) on Friday morning. (Xinhua/Wang Tiancong)
Beijing Guoan's goalkeeper Hou Sen (top R) makes a save during a match against Cangzhou Mighty Lions at the 2024 season Chinese Football Association Super League (CSL) in Cangzhou, north China's Hebei Province, March 2, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhou Yang)
This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on March 2, 2024 shows Shenzhou-17 astronaut Tang Hongbo performing extravehicular activities. The Shenzhou-17 crew members, who are currently on board China's space station, have completed their second extravehicular mission on Saturday. (Xinhua/Li He)
An aerial drone photo taken on March 1, 2024 shows the scenery at a section of the Yellow River in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With the temperature rising, the ice in Ningxia section of the Yellow River has been gradually melting. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)
An aerial drone photo taken on March 1, 2024 shows a vessel leaving the Qinzhou Port in Qinzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Some 132,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers of goods had been transported by rail-sea intermodal trains through the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the first two months of the year, up 10 percent year on year, data from the China Railway Nanning Group Co., Ltd. showed.
Launched in 2017, the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor is a trade and logistics passage that was built by provincial-level regions in western China and ASEAN members. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)
A kid plays at cole flower fields in Manxi Village of Yuqing County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, March 2, 2024. (Photo by He Chunyu/Xinhua)
