Yu Zejun (L) of Jilin celebrates during the 74kg ethnic style wrestling match at the 12th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of China in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province, Nov. 27, 2024. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)
Students of a middle school practice Taichi, a traditional Chinese martial art, in Wenxian County, Jiaozuo City of central China's Henan Province, Nov. 27, 2024. Wenxian County is the place where Taichi originated centuries ago. (Photo by Xu Hongxing/Xinhua)
Voters wait outside a polling station in Windhoek, Namibia, Nov. 27, 2024. Namibia's eighth presidential and National Assembly elections kicked off early Wednesday, with 15 presidential candidates and 21 political parties vying for leadership. (Photo by Musa C Kaseke/Xinhua)
A staff member checks pepper plants at the biological breeding technology center of Hunan Xiangyan Seed Industry Co., Ltd. in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, Nov. 25, 2024. Hunan, a main pepper planting area in China, has been advancing the application of smart greenhouses in pepper planting industry through combined efforts. (Xinhua/Wang Jingqiang)
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen celebrates after a vote at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Nov. 27, 2024. The European Parliament on Wednesday approved the new team of the European Commission, led by Germany's Ursula von der Leyen, who will serve her second five-year term as president. (Xinhua/Zhao Dingzhe)
Black-headed gulls are seen at the Caohai National Nature Reserve in the Yi, Hui and Miao Autonomous County of Weining, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Nov. 27, 2024. Black-headed gulls have recently flocked to the nature reserve to spend the winter there. (Photo by Luo Dafu/Xinhua)
Evan Kail holds a copy of his donated photo album as he visits Tiantan (Temple of Heaven) Park in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 21, 2024. The original album dating back to World War II (WWII) features photos of China at that time, including ones that document the atrocities committed by Japanese invaders in China back then. It was donated to China by Kail, a pawnshop manager, in 2022. Two years after making this donation, Kail decided to embark on a month-long visit to China. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)
This photo taken from Israel's side of the Israel-Lebanon border on Nov. 27, 2024 shows destroyed buildings in southern Lebanon. Israel's security cabinet approved on Tuesday night a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office said in a statement.
Israel's state-owned Kan TV News reported that the ceasefire, brokered by the United States and France, was expected to take effect on Wednesday at 4 a.m. local time (0200 GMT) in Israel and Lebanon. (Photo by Jamal Awad/Xinhua)
A modified ZQ-2 Y-1 carrier rocket carrying two test satellites blasts off from a commercial space innovation pilot zone in northwest China, Nov. 27, 2024. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)
Yu Jinshun, a national-level inheritor of boxwood engraving, makes an artwork at his studio in Liushi Town, Yueqing City of east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 25, 2024. The Yueqing genre of boxwood engraving was listed as a national-level intangible cultural heritage in 2006. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)