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Two Republic of China Kuang Hua-6 fast attack missile boats sail in formation during a combat readiness exercise at the Zuoying Naval Base in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on January 9, 2025. (Getty Images)

US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after delivering press statements before an official dinner in Jerusalem, on May 22, 2017. (Ngan Mandel/AFP via Getty Images)

Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat, US President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sit together outside the White House on March 26, 1979. (Wally McNamee/Corbis via Getty Images)

A general view shows a church between a construction site and residential and commercial buildings in Seoul on November 21, 2023. (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)

Visitors watch a show with at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore on February 7, 2024. (Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty Images)

Ursula von der Leyen during the plenary session of the European Parliament on July 18, 2024, in Strasbourg, France. (Johannes Simon via Getty Images)

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the American Federation of Teachers' 88th National Convention on July 25, 2024, in Houston, Texas. (Montinique Monroe via Getty Images)

Figure of a Kuomintang soldier looking across at the Chinese city of Xiamen on February 4, 2021, in Lieyu, Taiwan. (An Rong Xu via Getty Images)

Engraving of President Andrew Jackson, based on drawing done on September 23, 1829. (Library of Congress)

People celebrate the victory of the left-wing union after the French parliamentary elections in Paris, France, on July 7, 2024. (Luc Auffret/Anadolu via Getty Images)

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and French President Emmanuel Macron at the NATO Summit on July 12, 2023, in Vilnius, Lithuania (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

US flag is seen on a building in New York on July 4, 2024. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)