Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan meet in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on July 10, 2025. (Getty Images)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
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A woman walks past a concrete shelter painted in the style of Ukrainian embroidered ornamentation on May 17, 2025, in Kherson, Ukraine. According to the city military administration, there are over 800 shelters of various types in Kherson. (Ivan Antypenko via Getty Images)
Mintasca's robots dance during the 2023 World Artificial intelligence conference in Shanghai, China, on July 6, 2023 (Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93), aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), and Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) sail in formation in the Philippine Sea on June 9, 2023. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryre Arciaga)
The Securities and Exchange Commission logo hangs on the facade of its building September 18, 2008, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
The Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship USS Pioneer observes a controlled mine detonation while conducting a joint exercise with the Royal Thai Navy in the Gulf of Thailand on June 7, 2019. (US Navy Photo by Corbin Shea)