Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on May 4, 2026. (Getty Images)
A Philippine Air Force Black Hawk helicopter lands on June 29, 2023, on Mavulis Island, which is the Philippines’ northernmost island and is roughly 88 miles from Taiwan. (Getty Images)
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Trailers with launchers for guided missiles of a German Patriot air defense system stand on a snow-covered field in southeastern Poland on April 3, 2023. (Getty Images)
President of Brazil Michel Temer attends technical cooperation agreement signing ceremony with the Court Superior Electoral (TSE) at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil on October 11, 2016. (Ricardo Botelho/Brazil Photo Press/LatinContent/Getty Images)
The Cuban flag is lowered to half mast outside of the Embassy of Cuba in Washington, DC on November, 26, 2016. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Fidel Castro speaks during the ceremony in which President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez was given the UNESCO Jose Marti award for his efforts in education, February 3, 2006 in Havana, Cuba. (Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photography/Getty Images)