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A Philippine Coast Guard vessel and Filipino military personnel stationed in the Spratlys on December 10, 2023, in Palawan, Philippines. (Jes Aznar via Getty Images)

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Communal workers walk next to a crater and destroyed houses following a Russian shelling in Kyiv on December 11, 2023. (Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images)

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Members of China's thirteenth Arctic Ocean scientific expedition team conduct a sampling operation aboard China's polar icebreaker Xuelong 2 on August 6, 2023. (Wei Hongyi/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Black smoke billows from a fire on the Kerch bridge that links Crimea to Russia after a truck exploded near Kerch on October 8, 2022. (AFP via Getty Images)

A supporter of Ahmad Massoud, leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NFR) and the leading Afghan fighter against the Taliban, holds a flag with an NRF logo as he demonstrates outside Concordia Press Club in Vienna, Austria, on September 16, 2022. (Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images)

A view of the Parliament House as Finance Minister Ishaq Dar unveils the annual fiscal year budget in Islamabad, Pakistan, on June 9, 2023. (Muhammad Reza/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)