CPAC senior fellow Mercedes Schlapp and Vice President JD Vance speak during CPAC in Oxon Hill, Md., on Feb. 20, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Members of the M23 movement monitor the area next to residents during a special cleaning exercise and public meeting following the takeover of the city at the Place de l'Independance in Bukavu, Congo, on Feb. 20, 2025. The Rwandan-backed M23 movement has made huge gains in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, seizing the cities of Goma and Bukavu, prompting warnings to the UN's security council and stoking fears of a regional conflict. Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images
Britain's Defense Secretary John Healey (C) and Norwegian Defense Minister Tore Sandvik (R) stand next to a HUGIN Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) as they visit Royal Norwegian navy ship KV Bison in Bodo, Norway, on Feb. 20, 2025. RFA Proteus is the first of a new generation of survey and surveillance Royal Navy ships and is currently monitoring underwater around Scandinavia. Leon Neal/Getty Images
Derrick Tillett shovels the snow off the sidewalk leading from his house to the street in Elizabeth City, N.C., on Feb. 20, 2025. Chris Day/The Daily Advance via AP
Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg (R) and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 20, 2025. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo
An Airstream travel trailer is parked at a Joshua Tree National Park campground near Joshua Tree, Calif., on Feb. 20, 2025. Roughly 1,000 probationary National Park Service employees have been laid off amid a wave of federal work force cuts by the Trump administration prompting fears that it will affect visitor experiences and safety at the nation’s national parks. Mario Tama/Getty Images
University students hold together during a protest against President Prabowo Subianto's government, calling for demands including a re-evaluation of government budget cuts and a reassessment of the free nutritious meal program for schools, at the Arjuna Wijaya Statue in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Feb. 20, 2025. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images
An exterminator removes nests of caterpillars of the oak processionary moth (Thaumetopoea processionea) from an infected tree by using hot foam in Odense, Denmark, on Feb. 20, 2025, where 850 nests with allergenic caterpillars of the oak processionary moth where found. The moth is nocturnal with long, silver-gray toxic hair that can trigger allergic reactions, serious illness, and in the worst case, death. The toxic hair can be spread by the wind, and the caterpillar might have been brought to Denmark via oak trees imported from Germany. Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images
Visitors take a ride along the waters of River Ganges on motorboats, in Varanasi, India, on Feb. 20, 2025. Niharika Kulkarni/AFP via Getty Images
A man holds a teddy bear at the so-called “Hostages Square” in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Feb. 20, 2025, after the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including a mother and her two children, were handed over by Palestinian militant groups to the Red Cross in Gaza. Oded Balilty/AP Photo
Police and railway personnel examine a derailed train at Habarana in eastern Sri Lanka, on Feb. 20, 2025, which killed six elephants. A Sri Lankan express train was travelling near a wildlife reserve at Habarana, some 110 miles east of the capital Colombo, when it hit a herd of elephants crossing the line before dawn. AFP via Getty Images
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director Rafael Grossi waits for Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba before their meeting at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Feb. 20, 2025. Franck Robichon/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Construction workers are pictured on a construction site on the Marjan Island, UAE, on Feb. 20, 2025. Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images
A police officer stands in front of a damaged police hut of the Immediate Attention Commands (CAI) after being attacked with explosives in Cucuta, Norte de Santander province, Colombia, on Feb. 20, 2025. Four bomb attacks, including one with a car bomb, were carried out between Wednesday night and Thursday morning in two Colombian cities bordering Venezuela, possibly by ELN guerrillas, officials said. Schneyder Mendoza/AFP via Getty Images
No-reservation queues for visitors who come to visit Notre Dame de Paris, in Paris on Feb. 20, 2025. Magali Cohen/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images
UK Foreign Minister David Lammy arrives ahead of the G20 Foreign Minister Meeting at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, on Feb. 20, 2025. Top diplomats from the Group of 20 major economies will convene in South Africa on Feb. 20, 2025 for a meeting dominated by a packed global agenda but overshadowed by a snub by the top U.S. envoy. As a curtain-raiser to the G20 summit in November, the foreign ministers will gather for talks over two days, held for the first time in Africa. Emmanuel Croset/AFP via Getty Images
U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait Karen Sasahara tours the “Allies in Focus: Capturing Liberation” photo exhibition in Kuwait City on Feb. 20, 2025, on the occasion of the 64th Independence Day and the 34th anniversary of the end of the Gulf war with the liberation of Kuwait. Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images
Physiotherapist Igor Simoes Andrade and young people with disabilities swim with pink dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) on the Rio Negro river in Iranduba, Amazonas state, Brazil, on Feb. 20, 2025. Physiotherapist Igor Simoes Andrade launched the “Bototheraty” program in 2016, which provides sessions for people with physical and mental disabilities by taking them to swim with wild pink freshwater dolphins in the Amazon. Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images
