Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sits beside Iranian officials and other leaders during his swearing-in ceremony in Tehran on July 30, 2024. On the first row, second to the left, is Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. (Getty Images)
Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sits beside Iranian officials and other leaders during his swearing-in ceremony in Tehran on July 30, 2024. On the first row, second to the left, is Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. (Getty Images)
A prison van carrying Jimmy Lai arrives at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts for the closing arguments in his national security trial in Hong Kong on August 18, 2025. (Man Hei Leung via Getty Images)
A microchip and Taiwanese flag displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo on April 10, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
A Chinese national flag is seen in the foreground with container ships, cranes, and stacked shipping containers at the Yantian International Container Terminal under cloudy skies in Shenzhen, China. (Cheng Xin viaGetty Images)
An F/A-18E Super Hornet takes off from the flight deck the USS George Washington while underway in the Timor Sea on July 15, 2025, during Talisman Sabre, the largest bilateral military exercise between Australia and the United States. (US Navy photo)
Workers arrange national flags of Japan and India ahead of a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at Hyderabad House on March 19, 2022, in New Delhi, India. (Sonu Mehta via Getty Images)
Qinglong humanoid robots sort goods at a logistics sorting line during the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center on July 26, 2025. (Tian Yuhao via Getty Images)