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)
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin prior to a Japan-US-South Korea defense ministers meeting in Tokyo, Japan, on July 28, 2024. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Gamma-Rapho/Pool/Anadolu via Getty Images)
A banner featuring Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh hangs next to an Iranian flag during his funeral in Tehran, Iran, on August 1, 2024. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Iranians attend a funeral procession for late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran, on August 1, 2024. (Hossein Beris/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
A serviceman of Ukraine's National Guard in a trench during a tactical exercise on July 22, 2024. (Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)