Laboratory technicians work on samples to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing facility in Wuhan, China on August 4, 2021. (Getty Images)
A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
An airman launches an MQ-9 Reaper during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022 at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, on July 28, 2022. (US Air Force photo by Jerilyn Quintanilla)
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow, on December 30, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)
A man in Tehran holds a local newspaper reporting on the China-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore ties signed in Beijing, on March 11, 2023. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi hold a meeting in Tehran on July 19, 2022. (Sergei Savostyanov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)