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)
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang arrive for a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, August 2018. (Pool/Getty Images)
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang accompanies Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to view an honour guard during a welcoming ceremony on March 20, 2017 in Beijing, China. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
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)
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)
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)
President Donald J. Trump speaks during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pictured during the meeting with Li Keqiang (not pictured), Prime Minister of China, on July 09, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Florian Gaertner/Getty Images)
The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 12, 2018. (NASA via Getty Images)