Xinhua Photos of the Day (Feb. 14)

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BEIJING, Feb. 14, 2020 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.

The Westerdam cruise ship is seen at the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) in Preah Sihanouk province, Cambodia, Feb. 13, 2020. The cruise ship, which had been turned away over fears of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, docked at southwest Cambodia's sea port of Sihanoukville on Thursday, said the port chief. (Photo by Li Lay/Xinhua)

A transport aircraft Y-20 of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force arrives at Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 13, 2020. Ordered by the Central Military Commission, 11 transport aircraft of the PLA Air Force Thursday sent medics and supplies provided by the armed forces to virus-hit Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province. This was the first time for China's domestically developed large transport aircraft Y-20 to take part in non-military action. (Xinhua/Li Yun)

The multi-exposure photo taken on Feb. 12, 2020 shows NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addressing a press conference during a NATO defense ministers meeting at its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. (Xinhua/Zhang Cheng)

Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, on Feb. 13, 2020. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid resigned Thursday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson reshuffled his cabinet. Johnson named then Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak as the new chancellor of the exchequer. (Photo by Ray Tang/Xinhua)

Staff members work in a laboratory in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 13, 2020. As a designated service provider of nucleic acid detection of the novel coronavirus, KingMed Diagnostics laboratory in Wuhan conducts non-stop detection service over 2,000 samples from various cities in Hubei every day. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)

The Capitol and a stop sign are seen in Washington D.C., the United States, on Feb. 13, 2020. U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a resolution curbing the U.S. president's ability to use military forces against Iran without congressional approval. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

A staff member disinfects subway train carriages in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, Feb. 13, 2020. (Xinhua/Chen Zeguo)

Nurse Zhou Li wears a protective suit before entering a ward at Xianghu Hospital of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, Feb. 5, 2020. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)

Aerial photo taken on Feb. 8, 2020 shows the Great Wall station in Antarctica. Members of China's 36th Antarctic expedition aboard China's polar icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, started unloading supplies recently at the Great Wall station. (Xinhua/Liu Shiping)

A cured patient thumbs up to medical staff through the window of a bus at the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 13, 2020. Huoshenshan Hospital, a makeshift hospital built in Wuhan amid the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) epidemic, Thursday saw its first seven cured patients. (Photo by Fan Xianhai/Xinhua)

Syrian refugees are seen in a homebound trip from Lebanon to Syria at the Jdaidet Yabous border crossing, west of Damascus, Syria, on Feb. 13, 2020. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)

A medical staff gives a cheer-up gesture at the temporary hospital converted from Wuhan Sports Center in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)

Workers carry out medicine production in a workshop of a Chinese medicine pharmaceutical factory in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)■