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Laboratory technicians work on samples to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing facility in Wuhan, China on August 4, 2021. (Getty Images)
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Explosions erupt as Israeli forces shell buildings in Lebanon on October 6, 2024, in Beirut, Lebanon. (Ugur Yildirim images via Getty Images)
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Japan's new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, arrives at the prime minister's official residence on October 1, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. (Tomohiro Ohsumi via Getty Images)
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Former President Donald Trump speaks in Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5, 2024. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
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Mexico's new President Claudia Sheinbaum raises the ceremonial staff in Mexico City on October 1, 2024. (Carl De Souza/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iraqi paramilitaries of Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq wave their flag and the national flag on November 25, 2017. (Ahamad al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images)
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Flags for the United States and Ukraine fly on April 23, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images)
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Demonstrators gather during a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City to mark the one-year anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2024. (Charly Triballeau via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers on an M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle on February 23, 2024, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Vitalii Nosach/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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The Russian foreign minister and the deputy foreign minister of the Taliban government in Afghanistan attend the Moscow Format in Moscow, Russia, on October 4, 2024. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Israeli soldiers hang flags on an armored personnel carrier near the Gaza Strip border on June 6, 2024. (Amir Levy via Getty Images)
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
