BEIJING, Dec. 18, 2019 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.
Rescuers transfer a survivor of a coal mine flooding accident at the Shanmushu coal mine owned by the Sichuan Coal Industry Group in Gongxian County of Yibin City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Dec. 18, 2019. Thirteen miners have been rescued after being trapped for over 80 hours in the mine, local authorities said Wednesday. The accident occurred Saturday afternoon when 347 miners were working underground. A total of 329 escaped. Five people were killed in the accident. (Xinhua/Xue Yubin)
Protesters shout slogans in New Delhi, India, Dec. 17, 2019. Fresh violence was reported from parts of Delhi on Tuesday against the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which was passed by the country's Parliament last week, TV media reports said. (Xinhua/Javed Dar)
Aerial photo taken on Dec. 17, 2019 shows a container terminal in Anji County of Huzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province. The container throughput of the Huzhou Port has exceeded 0.5 million TEU by far this year, while the number of export containers raised 17.2 percent compared with the same period last year. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
The image captured by an infrared camera on July 24, 2019 shows a pair of sub-adult giant panda twins at Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The images and video clips, captured by an infrared camera in July for the first time, show two wild pandas, about 2 years old and the same size, playing under a tree at an altitude of 3,100 meters near a bamboo forest on Niutou Mountain. Sub-adult pandas refer to giant pandas aged between 2 and 5 years old. (Xinhua)
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (C) arrives for the celebration of the 84th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) inside Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City, the Philippines, Dec. 17, 2019. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reacts at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Dec. 17, 2019. Mitch McConnell on Tuesday rejected Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer's framework on impeachment trial including testimony from four former and current White House senior officials, signaling that he wants the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump to mirror that of Bill Clinton. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)
Players of Team Japan celebrate during the awarding ceremony of the 2019 East Asian Cup in Busan, South Korea, Dec. 17, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Jingqiang)
Photo taken on Dec. 14, 2019 shows the Shougang ski jumping platform in Beijing, capital of China. As the first newly built competition venue for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, the Shougang ski jumping platform is like "crystal shoe". It consists of three parts: the track, the referee's desk, and the stand area. The track is 164 meters long, 34 meters wide at the widest and 60 meters high at the highest point. (Xinhua/Xia Yifang)
A man swims through flood water at Wisata Buluh Cina village in Kampar district, Riau, Indonesia, Dec. 17, 2019. (Photo by Afrianto Silalahi/Xinhua)
A baby orangutan peeks from inside of a cage after landing at Kualanamu Airport in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Dec. 17, 2019. A baby orangutan will be released back into the wild in North Sumatra. A Russian trafficker drugged it and failed to smuggle it out of Bali. (Photo by Alberth Damanik/Xinhua)
Photo taken on Dec. 17, 2019 shows a view at the Maoxiang canyon in Zhidan County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The canyon consists of 9 segments with a total length of 12 kilometers. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)
A citizen walks past a parking lot covered with snow in Harbin City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Dec. 17, 2019. (Photo by Zhang Tao/Xinhua)
The Capitol Hill is shrouded in fog in Washington D.C., the United States, on Dec. 17, 2019. U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday sent a six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, slamming the House Democrats impeachment effort as an "illegal, partisan attempted coup" and an "unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power." (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
