Beijing, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.
Train D5998 from Lichuan City of Hubei Province arrives at Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 28, 2020. Inbound trains started arriving in Wuhan's train stations on Saturday. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
A Qatar Airways plane arrives for evacuating stranded French and German tourists in Kathmandu, Nepal, March 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Sunil Sharma)
Photo taken on March 27, 2020 shows the empty pedestrian walk on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, the United States. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)
A man walks across the Red Square with lights off during the Earth Hour event in Moscow, Russia, on March 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Evgeny Sinitsyn)
Empty streets are seen in the capital Damascus, Syria, on March 27, 2020, as a result of the government-imposed curfew to contain the COVID-19. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)
A train of Metro Line 2 pulls out of the inspection and repair depot in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 28, 2020. Six metro lines in Wuhan resumed operation starting from Saturday. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
A China-Europe freight train bound for Duisburg of Germany pulls out of the Wuhan terminal of China Railway Intermodal in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 28, 2020.
The China-Europe freight train (Wuhan), carrying 50 containers of goods, left the Wuhan terminal of China Railway Intermodal on Saturday, which is expected to arrive in Duisburg of Germany 15 days later. This is the first China-Europe freight train that has left Wuhan since epidemic prevention and control measures were taken, marking the restoration of its regular operation. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
A hawker center implements social distancing measures by marking seats with red tapes in Singapore Bugis area on March 28, 2020. (Photo by Then Chih Wey/Xinhua)
Roman Catholic clergy pray in front of the locked door of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City amid coronavirus pandemic on March 27, 2020. (Photo by Muammar Awad/Xinhua)
Photo taken on March 28, 2020 shows the buildings shrouded in a heavy sandstorm in Kuwait City, Kuwait. (Photo by Asad/Xinhua)
Mount Merapi erupts in this photo taken from Kemalang village, Central Java, Indonesia, March 28, 2020. Mount Merapi, the most active volcano in Indonesia, erupted on Friday, spewing a column of ash of up to 5 km high, forcing the authorities to issue a flight warning, the Volcanology Agency said. (Photo by Budi Siswato/Xinhua)
A diver patrols at the marine ranching of the Wuzhizhou Island scenic area in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province, March 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
An empty parking lot is seen in the central Israeli city of Modiin on March 27, 2020. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/Xinhua)
A Palestinian boy sets cleaning tools and disinfectants for sale in front of his house at a refugee camp in Gaza City, on March 27, 2020. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
People wait to buy medicine outside a pharmacy in Agartala, India's northeast state of Tripura, on March 28, 2020. The Indian government began a 21-day lockdown across the country Wednesday in a bid to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Str/Xinhua)
A cemetery staff member offers flowers to the deceased at the Babaoshan People's Cemetery in Beijing, capital of China, March 28, 2020. People can ask the cemetery staff to help clean tombs and offer flowers to the deceased on their behalf via the reservation service system in Beijing around the Tomb-sweeping Day, which falls on April 4 this year, as methods to prevent mass gatherings amid the COVID-19 outbreak. (Xinhua/Peng Ziyang)■
