This photo taken on May 9, 2024 shows a flooded street in Santo Afonso, Novo Hamburgo, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The death toll from deadly storms in south Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state has climbed to 116, the Civil Defense agency said on Friday.
Another 143 people were missing, with 756 injured and around 400,000 evacuated, according to the agency's latest update. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)
Zhang Haiya of Team Shanghai performs during the women's solo free event of 2024 national artistic swimming championships in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 11, 2024. (Xinhua/Du Zixuan)
Farmers transplant paddy rice seedlings at Haolibao Town in Xing'an League, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, May 11, 2024. (Xinhua/Bei He)
A drone light show featuring traditional Chinese culture is staged in Hong Kong, south China, May 11, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhu Wei)
A British Shorthair cat is seen during the Sofisticat Spring International Cat show in Bucharest, Romania, May 11, 2024. About two hundred cats of around 50 breeds participated in the two-day feline beauty contest. (Photo by Cristian Cristel/Xinhua)
This photo taken with a mobile phone on May 11, 2024 shows the northern lights near Nanshan scenic spot in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Chen Shuo)
This file photo shows an Airbus A350 aircraft serving the direct air route linking south China's Shenzhen with Mexico City at Shenzhen Baoan International Airport in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province.
A direct air route linking south China's Shenzhen with Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, was launched on Saturday.
The first flight on the route took off from Shenzhen Baoan International Airport at 9 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Saturday, and the flight time will be approximately 16 hours, the airline said.
The flight, covering over 14,000 kilometers and running twice weekly, is currently the only direct passenger route from China to Mexico, and from China to Latin America. (Xinhua)
A man clears off ruins at the flood-affected Laqia village, Baghlan-e-Markazi District, north Afghanistan's Baghlan Province, May 11, 2024. More than 330 were killed as rainstorms and flash floods hit major parts of the provinces of Baghlan, Takhar, Badakhshan and Ghor of Afghanistan, according to the Afghanistan office of the World Food Programme and local Afghan officials. (Photo by Mehrabuddin Ibrahimi/Xinhua)
This stacked photo taken on May 7, 2024 shows the Chinese Eastern Railway museum under the starry sky in Hengdaohezi Town of Hailin City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. Dubbed "a town pulled by trains," Hengdaohezi, located in the city of Hailin in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, was originally established in the late 19th century when Russians built train maintenance workshops and other facilities there following the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Due to well-preserved historic buildings, the exotic town now has become a popular tourist destination. (Photo by Wang Baoxun/Xinhua)
