Mingri “Ezra” Jin, head pastor of Zion Church, is seen on September 12, 2018, in Beijing, days after authorities shut down one of China’s largest “underground” Protestant churches. (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 worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
General view of an apartment block in Pechatniki suburb, southeast of Moscow, after an explosion destroyed four stories out of 18 of the building, September 9, 1999. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Soldiers of the honor guard prepare to march as people celebrate the first anniversary of the signing of the decree on the annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Federation, on March 18, 2015 in Sevastopol, Crimea. (Alexander Aksakov/Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama at the United Nations headquarters September 28, 2015 in New York City. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)