Xinhua Photos of the Day (Jan. 24)

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

Foreign ministers or representatives from Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Niger, Chad and Mali pose for a group photo in Algiers, Algeria, on Jan. 23, 2020. Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum on Thursday urged the Libyan parties to respect the truce and arms embargo, as well as to resume the political process. Boukadoum made the remarks during a meeting with foreign ministers of Libya's neighbors over developments in the war-torn country. (Xinhua)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23, 2020. (Xinhua/Guo Chen)

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (C) speaks at a press conference after a closed-door meeting of the Emergency Committee at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that it was "too early" to declare the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). (Xinhua/Liu Qu)

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during the 5th World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, on Jan. 23, 2020. Dozens of world leaders gathered on Thursday in Jerusalem to commemorate 75 years for the liberation of the Auschwitz camp and called on to combat the resurgence of modern-day anti-Semitism. (Yonatan Sindel/JINI via Xinhua)

Chinese Consul General in New York Huang Ping and Robert McCooey, senior vice president of Nasdaq's Listing Services unit, attend the closing bell-ringing ceremony with other guests at Nasdaq Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, Jan. 22, 2020. A special bell-ringing ceremony was held Wednesday afternoon at the Nasdaq to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan. 25 this year. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)

Belinda Bencic of Switzerland hits a return to Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia during their women's singles second round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia on Jan. 23, 2020. (Xinhua/Bai Xuefei)

A resident looks for reusable materials from his charred house after a fire at a residential area in Manila, the Philippines, Jan. 23, 2020. More than 75 houses were razed in the fire. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)

Stranded passengers are seen at Canberra airport in Australia, Jan. 23, 2020. Flights have been canceled at Canberra's airport for much of Thursday as bushfire posed threat to the east of the Australian capital.

The blaze, started Wednesday afternoon in Redwood Forest of Pialligo, was fanned up by strong wind on Thursday morning and merged with a second fire. It engulfed more than 400 hectares at the border between the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and New South Wales. (Photo by Chu Chen/Xinhua)

Aerial photo taken on Jan. 11, 2020 shows workers patrolling along a railway of the Laoling tunnel in Tonghua city, northeast China's Jilin Province. (Xinhua/Xu Chang)

A woman performs during the closing ceremony of the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)

The Vessel on Hudson Yards is illuminated with red lights to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in New York, the United States, Jan. 22, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)

A passenger gets on board at Wanzai Port in Zhuhai on Jan. 23, 2020. Wanzai Port in Zhuhai City of Guangdong Province on the Chinese mainland resumed operation Thursday after a suspension of four years. At 1:00 p.m., a ferry carrying 74 passengers departed from the port to Macao, marking the reopening of the port. (Xinhua/Cheong Kam Ka)

A staff member checks a passenger's body temperature at Wangjiadun metro station in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, 9 a.m. Jan. 23, 2020. Wuhan, the center of a pneumonia outbreak in China, has rolled out a slew of unprecedented measures to curb the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). From 10 a.m. Thursday, all public transportation, including city buses, subways, ferries and long-distance coaches have been suspended, and outbound channels at airports and railway stations have also been closed until further notice. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)■