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)
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky as he arrives at the Special European Council in Brussels on March 6, 2025. (Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images)
Security forces reporting to Syria's transitional government patrol the streets of Dummar, during an operation to seize weapons and hunt down armed supporters of the ousted Assad leadership on January 15, 2025. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP via Getty Images)
A statue of the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, stands in front of the US Treasury September 19, 2008, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
HMAS Sydney fires Royal Australian Navy’s first Naval Strike Missile during a long-planned, live-fire sinking exercise off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, on July 17, 2024. (DVIDS)