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 US Air Force B-1B Lancer assigned to the 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota on November 7, 2022. (Yosselin Campos via DVIDS)
Policemen stand guard while supporters of slain Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio pay their respects during an act organized by the Movimiento Construye party and friends at the Quito Exhibition Center in Quito on August 11, 2023. (Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a rally outside the former US embassy in the capital Tehran on November 4, 2022, in Tehran, Iran. (Contributor via Getty Images)