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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A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
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)
Chinese Catholics hold candles at a mass on Holy Saturday during Easter celebrations at the government sanctioned West Beijing Catholic Church on April 15, 2017 in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Girls in front of a UNHCR refugee tent in the Hasan Sham refugee camp. The tent camp near the largely destroyed former IS stronghold of Mossul accommodates 3,300 of the 1.8 million internally displaced persons in Iraq. (picture alliance via Getty Images)
A Syriac Christian militiaman stands guard on top of a building at the Saint John's church (Mar Yohanna) in the nearly deserted predominantly Christian Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, on April 16, 2017.(CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images)
Holocaust and Tree of Life synagogue survivor Judah Samet looks at photographs of his family, August 27, 2018 in Pittsburgh. (ANDREW RUSSELL/TRIBUNE-REVIEW)
Dr. Ahmad el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al Azhar Al Sharif and Pope Francis visit Sheikh Zayed Mosque on February 4, 2019 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Francois Nel/Getty Images)
Catholic faithful stage a peaceful protest to condemn the rampant killing in Benue State, North Central of Nigeria in Abuja, Nigeria's capital on May 22, 2018. (next24online/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Catholic worshippers attend a mass on Holy Saturday, part of Easter celebrations at Beijing's government sanctioned South Cathedral on March 31, 2018. (Photo credit: GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)
Christians pray during Palm Sunday mass inside the Cave Cathedral or St. Sama'ans Church on the Mokattam hills overlooking Cairo, Egypt on April 9, 2017. (Photo by Ibrahim Ezzat/NurPhoto via Getty Images)