Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
Security personnel and rescue workers prepare to search for survivors in the debris of a damaged mosque inside the police headquarters in Peshawar, Pakistan, on January 30, 2023. (Abdul Mjaeed/AFP via Getty Images)
A view of stores and markets ahead of their closing time on January 5, 2023, in Islamabad, Pakistan, after the government decided to close stores at 8:30 p.m. to conserve energy as economic woes mount. (Muhammed Semih Ugurlu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands before the group photo during the BRICS Summit in Fujian, China, on September 4, 2017. (Kenzaburo Fukuhara/AFP via Getty Images)