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)
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)
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attends a welcoming ceremony and review an honour guard at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on March 1, 2019. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/Getty Images)
On April 10, 2019 Israeli Likud Party campaign material and posters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strewn on the floor following election night at the party headquarters in the coastal city of Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ/Getty Images)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks as a security staff member stands guard in foreground during a rally of Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in Ankara, Turkey, on March 28, 2019. (Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Pakistani Finance Minister Asad Umar speaks to the media during a press conference after stepping down from his ministry, in Islamabad on April 18, 2019. (AAMIR QURESHI/Getty Images)