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)
President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with President Xi Jinping during a welcoming ceremony at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Council of Heads of State in Qingdao, China, on June 10, 2018. (Sergei Guneyev via Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting on the development of occupied regions of Ukraine at the Kremlin on June 30, 2025. (Getty Images)
Pilots of the 28th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine test a fiber optic drone with RPG munition on June 18, 2025, near Kostiantynivka, Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar attend the ceremonial reception of Angola's President Joao Lourenco at the presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on May 3, 2025. (Money Sharma via Getty Images)
From a balcony in the Ministry of Health Building in London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill addresses a huge crowd on May 8. 1945 (Victory in Europe Day). (Getty Images)
An aerial view of a cargo ship passing by the Cheniere Energy liquefied natural gas plant on February 10, 2025 in Port Arthur, Texas. China, the world's largest importer of liquefied natural gas, has announced that it will be placing a 15% tariff on U.S. liquefied natural gas in retaliation to President Trump's ruling to impose tariffs on Chinese commodities. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)