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)
Ukrainian soldiers prepare a long range drone near the Bakhmut frontline in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on January 12, 2024. (Ignacio Marin/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Soldiers at the training ground calibrate their weapons after going into combat against the positions of the Russian army on January 12, 2024, in Lyman district, Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers fire "Mini Grad" multi-barrel rocket launchers at Russian positions in the direction of Kupiansk in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on January 7, 2024. (Ozge Elif Kizil/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Yemen's Houthis held a military parade commemorating the ninth anniversary of their takeover of the capital Sana'a on September 21, 2023, in Sana'a, Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud via Getty Images)
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