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)
A Protester is seen holding up a US Flag in Hong Kong on September 8, 2019, Protester march from Charter Garden to the US Consulate in Hong Kong calling for support. (Photo by Vernon Yuen via Getty Images)
In this photograph taken on February 23, 2020, a young member of the Assyrian Christian community walks with insense during a Sunday mass at the More Benham Kirklar Church in Mardin, south-eastern Turkey (Photo by BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the release of the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, at the State Department in Washington, DC on March 30, 2021 (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Supporters of China's Muslim Uighur minority wave flags of East Turkestan and hold placards as they gather at the Beyazid square on October 1, 2020 during a demonstration to protest China's Uighur treatment in Istanbul. (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty I
Uyghurs of the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement (ETNAM) hold a rally outside the US State Department calling on US President Joe Biden to increase pressure on the Chinese Communist Party, on February 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by ALEX EDE