Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
A police officer wears a protective mask as he stands guard before the opening session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People on March 5, 2021 in Beijing, China (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the monument to Alexander III, on June 5, 2021 in Gatchina, Russia (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
A health worker next to oxygen cylinders taking information from a COVID-19 coronavirus positive person, inside the ambulance, at MMC hospital in Guwahati, Assam, India on 25 May 2021. (David Talukdar/NurPhoto via Getty Images)