Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands after speaking to the media during a signing ceremony following their talks in Moscow on Tuesday. Mikhail Tereshchenko/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP hide caption
U.S. Marines take up positions in the area around the Palestine hotel in the center of Baghdad, April 9, 2003. Sean Smith/Getty Images hide caption
Activists light candles outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion that launched the Iraq War in 2003. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Win Without War hide caption
French journalist Olivier Dubois left, and Jeffery Woodke, right, are seen as they arrive at the Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey on Monday. Souleymane AG Anara/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Giant African snails can eat through over 500 different types of plants and produce. When those are not available, they'll consume flowers, tree bark and even the paint and stucco off of houses. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
China's leader Xi Jinping claps as he listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin via a video link, from the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Dec. 2, 2019. Xi will meet Putin this week on a visit to Moscow. Noel Celis/Pool photo via AP hide caption
U.S. Marine Maj. Bull Gurfein pulls down a poster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on March 21, 2003, a day after the start of the U.S. invasion, in Safwan, Iraq. Chris Hondros/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. soldiers stand guard in Fallujah, May 2003. Congress will vote on whether to repeal the authorization for the use of military force orders passed in 1991 and in 2002 for two separate armed conflicts in Iraq. Murad Sezer/Associated Press hide caption
A Russian Su-27 fighter jet releases fuel as it approaches the rear of a U.S. Air Force MQ-9, in what the Pentagon says was "an unsafe and unprofessional intercept" over the Black Sea. U.S. European Command video / Screenshot by NPR hide caption
An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft flies by during a training mission at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada on Nov. 17, 2015. Isaac Brekken/Getty Images hide caption
Ukrainian Emergency Service rescuers work on a building damaged by shelling in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on Tuesday. The attack happened hours before a Russian fighter jet collided with a U.S. drone over the Black Sea. Roman Chop/AP hide caption
The FBI seal is pictured in Omaha, Neb., Aug. 10, 2022. The number of hate crimes in the U.S. jumped again in 2021, continuing an alarming rise, according to FBI data released Monday, March 13, 2023. Most victims were targeted due to race or ethnicity, followed by sexual orientation and religion. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption
Ukrainian military personnel receive training on German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks at a Spanish army training center in Zaragoza, Spain, on Monday. Oscar del Pozo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A cadet waits for the arrival of cadet candidates at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2016. The Defense Department's recent survey showed that many young military academy students are still reluctant to come forward about sexual assault and harassment. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
More than two decades after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, the five men accused have still not gone to trial, and four presidential administrations have wrestled with the Guantánamo problem. Dion MBD for NPR hide caption
Members of the white nationalist group National Socialist Florida use a laser projector to display white nationalist and anti-LGBTQ images on the side of the CSX building and other high-rise buildings in Jacksonville, Fla. Jim Urquhart for NPR hide caption
In this 2018 photo made from footage taken from the Russian Defense Ministry's official website, a Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile flies during a test in southern Russia. AP hide caption
Flags of different nations. The new Freedom House report finds that the gap between the number of countries where freedom has improved and where it has declined is at its narrowest in 17 years. Oliver Helbig/Getty Images hide caption
Signs promoting 5G wireless technology from Chinese technology firm Huawei are displayed at the PT Expo in Beijing in 2018. Germany is reviewing the presence of Huawei and ZTE components in its telecommunications. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang waves as he arrives for a press conference held on the sidelines of the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption
Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin attends a meeting with investors at the Eastern Economic Forum on Sept. 2, 2016, in Vladivostok, Russia. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images hide caption
Ukrainian soldiers fire a self-propelled howitzer towards Russian positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday. Libkos/AP hide caption