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An oil tanker is being unloaded with imported crude oil at the Qingdao Port Oil Terminal in Shandong Province, China on April 7, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Leaders and delegates pose for a photo at the Balkans Summit hosted by the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on October 22, 2025, in London. (Getty Images)
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An aerial view shows the destroyed areas of Pokrovsk, Ukraine, following months of intense fighting near the front line, on October 7, 2025. (Getty Images)
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An aerial view of a container ship arriving at the Port of Oakland on October 10, 2025, in Oakland, California. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky outside the West Wing of the White House on October 17, 2025. (Getty Images)
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer poses for a photograph with China’s President Xi Jinping in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 18, 2024. (Getty Images)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on during a meeting with President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet at the White House on October 17, 2025. (Getty Images)
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A Chinese Communist Party meeting in Beijing on September 28, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic successfully completed the first-ever known transatlantic crossing of an unmanned surface vessel on September 9, 2025, as it arrived in Troia, Portugal. (US Navy)
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A Ukrainian multiple rocket launcher BM-27 Uragan fires on Russian positions on October 3, 2025, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Getty Images)
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David Asher
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William P. Barr
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