Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping enter the hall during a signing ceremony on May 20, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
Supporters of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) chant slogans and wave flags at a rally celebrating the end of the US military presence in Iraq on September 30, 2026, in Baghdad, Iraq. (Getty Images)
Presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro for the Partido Liberal speaks to the press after the votes are tallied on election day on October 4, 2026, in Brasilia, Brazil. (Getty Images)
Diplomatic envoys of ASEAN countries to China watch an intelligent robot during a visit to the China-ASEAN AI Application Center on July 22, 2026, in Nanning, China. (Getty Images)
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi holds a news conference in New York after she addressed the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2026, in New York City, US (Getty Images)
Migrants storm a barbed-wire fence as they attempt to cross the land border with Spain's African enclave of Ceuta near Fnideq in northern Morocco on September 15, 2024. (Getty Images)
US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport on March, 20, 2013 near Tel Aviv, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the Ethiopian National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 24, 2015. (Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Copies of ballots papers and campaign posters for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party on March 18, 2015 in Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (R) talk before a meeting at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel March 28, 2015 in Lausanne. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)