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President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on September 29, 2025. (Getty Images)

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the United Nations General Assembly on September 23, 2025. (Getty Images)

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Displaced Palestinians move southward in the central Gaza Strip following renewed Israeli evacuation orders on September 18, 2025. (Getty Images)

Robert Malley, Biden administration special envoy for Iran, waits to testify about the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations on Capitol Hill, May 25, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin as they arrives at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on August 15, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Getty Images)

A protester burns a flare at Place de la Republique during a part of a Bloquons Tout (Let’s Block Everything) demonstration in Paris on September 10, 2025. (Getty Images)

Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani addresses a press conference following Israeli strikes in Doha on September 9, 2025. (Karim Jaafar via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet in the Oval Office on February 13, 2025. (Getty Images)

China’s President Xi Jinping attends a military parade on September 3, 2025, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping greet each other during a welcoming ceremony of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin on August 31, 2025. (Getty Images)

Xi Jinping attends a meeting with Vladimir Putin at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 2, 2025. (Sergey Bobylev via Getty Images)