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)
A sign depicting a cutout of the Bahamas-flagged cargo vessel Galaxy Leader is raised by a protester behind a man carrying a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher during a pro-Palestinian rally in the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on February 7, 2024. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin visiting the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia in Korolyov, outside Moscow, on October 26, 2023. (Gavriil Grigorov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden stops to talk to journalists on his way to California to attend campaign receptions on February 20, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
Pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants march with Lebanese, Palestinian, and Hezbollah flags during a mass rally to mark al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day). (Marwan Naamani/picture alliance via Getty Images)