In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a picture with European leaders following a meeting at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
Italy's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, speaks to members of the press outside Palazzo Chigi in Rome, Italy on February 14, 2019. (NurPhoto/Getty Images)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish President Andrzej Duda give a statement before talks at the Chancellery in Berlin on June 17, 2016. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping, French President Macron, and German Chancellor Merkel attend the closing ceremony of a global governance forum in Paris, France, March 26, 2019. (Getty Images)
Thomas Borgen (C), CEO of Denmark's largest lender Danske Bank resigned as a result of money laundering scandals, the bank said in a stock exchange announcement September 19, 2018. (LISELOTTE SABROE/Getty Images)
President Donald J. Trump speaks during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pictured during the meeting with Li Keqiang (not pictured), Prime Minister of China, on July 09, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Florian Gaertner/Getty Images)
French President Emmanuel Macron (C) gestures next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) following their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on March 26, 2019. (LUDOVIC MARIN/Getty Images)
China's President Xi Jinping attends a Business Forum with Italian and Chinese businessmen at Quirinale Palace on March 22, 2019 in Rome, Italy. (Alessandra Benedetti - Corbis/Getty Images)
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) talk to each other prior to pose for a family photo on March 22, 2019 in Brussels at the end of an EU summit focused on Brexit. (LUDOVIC MARIN/Getty Images)
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the media at the conclusion of a two-day EU summit on March 22, 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)