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)
Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his wife Iriana speak to journalist after the election at a polling station in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 17, 2019. (Barcroft Media/Getty Images)
An Algerian protester waves a flag during an anti-government demonstration to demand an overhaul of the political system after long-serving president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned. (picture alliance/Getty Images)
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir attends a meeting with his new 20-member cabinet as they take oath at the presidential palace in the capital on March 14, 2019. (ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)
On the eve of renewed sanctions by Washington, Iranian protesters demonstrate outside the former US embassy in Tehran on November 4, 2018, marking the anniversary of its storming by student protesters in 1979. (NurPhoto via Getty Images)
A crowd of refugees carry their belongings May 3, 1994 at the border of Rwanda and Tanzania. Hutu refugees have fled to Tanzania border across the Akagara River in order to escape reprisals by Tutsi rebels. (Scott Peterson/Liaison)
Girls in front of a UNHCR refugee tent in the Hasan Sham refugee camp. The tent camp near the largely destroyed former IS stronghold of Mossul accommodates 3,300 of the 1.8 million internally displaced persons in Iraq. (picture alliance via Getty Images)
A woman looks on as she waits to be searched by members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after leaving the Islamic State (IS) group's last holdout of Baghouz, in the eastern Syria, March 1, 2019. (DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
A Syriac Christian militiaman stands guard on top of a building at the Saint John's church (Mar Yohanna) in the nearly deserted predominantly Christian Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, on April 16, 2017.(CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images)
US Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, speaks during a press conference calling on Congress to cut funding for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and to defund border detention facilities, outside the US Capitol (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)