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)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel waits for the Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni before they review a guard of honor upon Gentilon's arrival at the Chancellery on January 18, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. (Michele Tantussi/Getty Images)
Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak (L) leaves after a foreign policy speech by Republican US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump at the Mayflower Hotel April 27, 2016 in Washington, DC.(BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Soldiers from Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and US participate in the opening ceremony for the international exercise "Saber Strike”, Adazi Training Area, Latvia, June 8, 2015.(Gatis Diezins, RYC/Flickr)
A general view of the signage above the entance to the Trump Tower, located on 5th Avenue in midtown Manhattan, New York City, 21st January 2017. (Epics Getty Images)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives to give a statement to the media following the victory by U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump in U.S. presidential elections on November 9, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
(L-R) U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev talk during the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies on March 26, 2012 in Seoul, South Korea. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)