In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via 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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President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a picture with European leaders following a meeting at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
Protestors oppose the Chinese Genocide of Uyghur Muslims outside of the State Department headquarters in Washington, DC, on November 20, 2023. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Boats and outboard motors assumed to have been used by migrants to cross the English Channel lie in a Border Force holding facility on January 17, 2024, in Dover, England. (Dan Kitwood via Getty Images)
Taliban security personnel stand guard as a burqa-clad woman walks along a street at a market in the Baharak district of Badakhshan province. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)
Members of the Security Council listen as Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Philippe Lazzarini speaks during a meeting on the Israel-Hamas war at United Nations headquarters on October 30, 2023, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)
A fan poses for a photo as a sailing ship bearing a portrait of Inter Miami CF's Argentine forward Lionel Messi sails across the Victoria Harbor on February 3, 2024, in Hong Kong, China. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
Jakartans are coming and casting their votes at a polling station during the Indonesian general election in Jakarta, Indonesia, on February 14, 2024. (Aditya Irawan/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
South Sudanese military police officers monitor the area during a South Sudanese Unified Forces deployment ceremony at the Luri Military Training Centre in Juba on November 15, 2023. (Peter Louis Gume/AFP via Getty Images)
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks during a meeting of African leaders with Russian President at the Konstantin Palace in Strelna on June 17, 2023 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Contributor via Getty Images)