HONG KONG – NOVEMBER 25: A pro-democracy activist holds a yellow umbrella in front of a police line on a street in Mongkok district on November 25, 2014 in Hong Kong. The Mong Kok protest site is scheduled for clearance by bailiffs this week after Hong Kong’s high court authorized police to arrest protesters who…

TOPSHOT – Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 20, 2023. (Photo by Sergei KARPUKHIN / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI KARPUKHIN/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – DECEMBER 10: Viktor Orban Prime Minister of Hungary looks on before an interreligious service at the Metropolitan Cathedral after the Presidential Inauguration Ceremony on December 10, 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Marcos Brindicci/Getty Images)

MOSCOW, RUSSIA – JUNE 30 (RUSSIA OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting on development of ‘new regions’, annexed from Ukraine, at the Kremlin, on June 30, 2025, in Moscow, Russia. Russia has made the retention of these annexed regions, including the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, a condition of any peace agreement…

LUBLIN, POLAND – SEPTEMBER 11: The Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban takes part on a press conference during the Visegrad Summit at the Centre for the Meetings of Culture on September 11, 2020 in Lublin, Poland. The heads of state of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have gathered to discuss the upcoming…

A Republic of Singapore Air Force Chinook helicopter carrying a Singaporean flag is escorted by Apache helicopters past the National Gallery Singapore dome during a fly-over to celebrate the country’s 59th National Day in Singapore on August 9, 2024. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP) (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

KUWAIT – JANUARY 15: A derek pumps in a oil field January 15, 2003 near the Saudi Arabian border, Kuwait. Kuwait produces 10% of the worlds oil and has promised to increase production as needed in the event of a war in Iraq. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

MOSCOW, RUSSIA – JULY 31: (RUSSIA OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during Russian-Laotian talks at the Kremlin on July 31, 2025 in Moscow, Russia. President of Laos Sisoulith is on an official visit to Russia. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)

TOPSHOT – Supporters display placards reading “Love Malaysia and Destroy Kleptocracy” during a rally organised by the Pakatan Harapan opposition coalition, or Pact of Hope in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur on October 14, 2017. – Thousands of Malaysian protesters demonstrated on October 14 against scandal-hit Prime Minister Najib Razak as political tensions rise ahead…

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 21: The U.S. Capitol is seen at dusk, January 21, 2018 in Washington, DC. Lawmakers are convening for a Sunday session to try to resolve the government shutdown. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

MOSCOW, RUSSIA – FEBRUARY 01: A shop assistant watches TV screens in a shop during the broadcasting of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual address to Russian and foreign media in Kremlin, February 1, 2007 in Moscow, Russia. Putin denied accusations that Russia is using its vast energy resources to exert pressure on other countries. Russia…

A stone lion guarding the Forbidden City.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban reacts during a conference with Baden-Wuerttemberg’s State Premier in the New Castle in Stuttgart, south-western Germany, on June 19, 2024, ahead of attending the UEFA Euro 2024 football match between Germany and Hungary. (Photo by SILAS STEIN / AFP) (Photo by SILAS STEIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Pro Erdogan supporters rally at Taksim square in Istanbul of July 15. Thousands of Turkish government supporters on Thursday streamed across one of the two bridges spanning the Bosphorus in Istanbul to protest against the coup that sought to unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan one week ago. The Bosphorus Bridge between the Asian and European…

Peruvian leftist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo of Peru Libre waves to supporters from his party headquarters balcony in Lima on June 8, 2021, keeping a narrow lead in the final vote tally with right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori on Fuerza Popular following the runoff election of June 6. – Peru was on edge Tuesday as right-wing…

ZIMOVYE, RUSSIA – North Korea’s gulag in Siberia, Khabarovsk Territory, Chegdomynsky District, Zimovye, 2001. (Photo by Laski Diffusion/Getty Images)

TOPSHOT – People demonstrate against Argentine President Mauricio Macri outside the Presidential palace in Buenos Aires on April 7, 2016, after a prosecutor opened an investigation on his offshore financial dealings leaked in the Panama Papers. Macri said Thursday he made no “malicious omission” from his mandatory asset declarations as a public official, after the…

TOPSHOT – People demonstrate against Argentine President Mauricio Macri outside the Presidential palace in Buenos Aires on April 7, 2016, after a prosecutor opened an investigation on his offshore financial dealings leaked in the Panama Papers. Macri said Thursday he made no “malicious omission” from his mandatory asset declarations as a public official, after the…

LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 01: Protesters hold placards during the annual Ashura march in Marble Arch on October 1, 2017 in London, England. Hundreds of protesters march through London today to mark Ashura and celebrate the defeat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Ashura is a Muslim festival of remembrance that falls on…