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President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting in Moscow on September 14, 2023. (Mikhail Metzel/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg meets virtually with Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi on September 28, 2021. (NATO via Flickr)

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A billboard displays a temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 18, 2023. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, India, on September 9, 2023. (Ministry of External Affairs of India via Flickr)

Ukrainian soldiers in a 2S3 Akatsiya howitzer on the front line near Toretsk, Ukraine, on August 2, 2023. (Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the new toll section of the M-4 Don highway at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 15, 2023. (Gavriil Grigorov/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

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