Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
People ride past large banners of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif displayed along a street ahead of his arrival in Lahore on October 19, 2023. (Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (R) stands beside his daughter Maryam Nawaz (L) as he waves to his supporters gathered at a park during an event held to welcome him in Lahore on October 21, 2023. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
People line up to visit huge portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on the 78th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang on October 10, 2023. (Kim Won Jin/AFP via Getty Images)
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida delivers his policy speech during a plenary session of the House of Representatives at the Diet in Tokyo on January 22, 2016. (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)
Policemen stand guard while supporters of slain Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio pay their respects during an act organized by the Movimiento Construye party and friends at the Quito Exhibition Center in Quito on August 11, 2023. (Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images)
An A4 paper was seen held by a protester during the demonstration outside the Chinese embassy in London on December 5, 2022. (Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The Israel Missile Defense Organization of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development and the US Missile Defense Agency completed a successful flight test campaign with the Arrow-3 Interceptor missile at Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, on July 23, 2019. (Missile Defense Agency via DVIDS)