Mingri “Ezra” Jin, head pastor of Zion Church, is seen on September 12, 2018, in Beijing, days after authorities shut down one of China’s largest “underground” Protestant churches. (Getty Images)
A microchip and Taiwanese flag displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo on April 10, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
Military personnel arrive in a Chinook before Iraqi soldiers take part in a live-fire exercise for under the surveillance of US-led coalition forces at Basmaya base, Iraq on January 27, 2016. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants take part in an anti-Israel rally in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 18, 2015. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a congress of the ruling United Russia party in Moscow, on September 23, 2011. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)
U.S. President Barack Obama, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R), at the White House November 6, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)