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Members of China's thirteenth Arctic Ocean scientific expedition team conduct a sampling operation aboard China's polar icebreaker Xuelong 2 on August 6, 2023. (Wei Hongyi/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Black smoke billows from a fire on the Kerch bridge that links Crimea to Russia after a truck exploded near Kerch on October 8, 2022. (AFP via Getty Images)

A supporter of Ahmad Massoud, leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NFR) and the leading Afghan fighter against the Taliban, holds a flag with an NRF logo as he demonstrates outside Concordia Press Club in Vienna, Austria, on September 16, 2022. (Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images)

A view of the Parliament House as Finance Minister Ishaq Dar unveils the annual fiscal year budget in Islamabad, Pakistan, on June 9, 2023. (Muhammad Reza/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Szymon Holownia, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, Donald Tusk, Wlodzimierz Czarzasty, and Robert Biedron during the signing of the coalition agreement regarding the tasks of establishing a new government in Warsaw, Poland, on November 10, 2023. (Andrzej Iwanczuk/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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A soldier walks with a rose near photos of people killed during Hamas's attack on the Nova festival at the site on November 29, 2023, in Re'im, Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

In the dining car on the train from Vladivostok to the airport on November 23, 1974, President Gerald Ford discusses progress on the SALT agreement with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. (Bettmann via Getty Images)