Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping enter the hall during a signing ceremony on May 20, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
Supporters of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) chant slogans and wave flags at a rally celebrating the end of the US military presence in Iraq on September 30, 2026, in Baghdad, Iraq. (Getty Images)
Presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro for the Partido Liberal speaks to the press after the votes are tallied on election day on October 4, 2026, in Brasilia, Brazil. (Getty Images)
Diplomatic envoys of ASEAN countries to China watch an intelligent robot during a visit to the China-ASEAN AI Application Center on July 22, 2026, in Nanning, China. (Getty Images)
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi holds a news conference in New York after she addressed the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2026, in New York City, US (Getty Images)
Migrants storm a barbed-wire fence as they attempt to cross the land border with Spain's African enclave of Ceuta near Fnideq in northern Morocco on September 15, 2024. (Getty Images)
US Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo attend a welcome ceremony at the Pentagon on April 1, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Japanese Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Shinzo Abe arrives for an event held before the party's annual convention on February 10, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
Thomas Borgen (C), CEO of Denmark's largest lender Danske Bank resigned as a result of money laundering scandals, the bank said in a stock exchange announcement September 19, 2018. (LISELOTTE SABROE/Getty Images)
Former Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, French President Macron, and German Chancellor Merkel attend the closing ceremony of a global governance forum in Paris, France, March 26, 2019. (Getty Images)
The Impossible Burger 2.0, the new version of the company's plant-based vegan burger that tastes like real beef is introduced at a press event during CES 2019 in Las Vegas on January 7, 2019. (ROBYN BECK/Getty Images)
On the eve of renewed sanctions by Washington, Iranian protesters demonstrate outside the former US embassy in Tehran on November 4, 2018, marking the anniversary of its storming by student protesters in 1979. (NurPhoto via Getty Images)