US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting together at Riyadh's Diriyah Palace, Saudi Arabia, on Feb. 18, 2025. Top U.S. and Russian diplomats met in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting their countries' fractured relations and making a tentative start on trying to end the Ukraine war. Evelyn Hockstein/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
An airman aboard a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources plane looks on as a Chinese Navy helicopter flies close by above Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, on Feb. 18, 2025. A Chinese Navy helicopter nearly collided with a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources plane in the latest flare-up of tensions between the two countries in the disputed waters. The incident occurred when the Chinese Navy deployed a helicopter to tail the Philippine civilian plane, which was conducting a routine maritime domain awareness flight over Scarborough Shoal, located within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone. Ezra Acayan/Getty Images
A minesweeper searches for mines on Sevani beach in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on Feb. 18, 2025. In August 2024, the beach was temporarily closed after the discovery of eight explosive devices dating from the Second World War. Pascal Pochard-Casabianca/AFP via Getty Images
A seller looks on while waiting for customers at her maize stall as residents begin to venture out onto the streets following clashes at Kadutu Market in Bukavu, DR Congo, on Feb. 18, 2025. Traders and travelers packed their belongings and paid their fares early on Tuesday for the long boat journey across eastern DR Congo's Lake Kivu, the first sailing between the lake's two main ports for weeks after fighting disrupted the service. Fighting between Rwanda-backed M23 fighters and government forces has raged for months in the towns, villages and cities on the DRC side of the lake, which straddles the border with Rwanda. Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images
A worker inside the fuselage of a Bombardier Challenger aircraft under construction at the Bombardier manufacturing facility in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Feb. 18, 2025. Graham Hughes/AFP via Getty Images
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum takes his seat before a Water Policy Announcement at the Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters in Washington, DC, on Feb.18, 2025. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin made a water policy announcement and held a signing ceremony with members of the West Virginia Congressional Delegation. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images
Palestinian children attempt to pull packets of humanitarian aid from a truck as it drives through Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip after crossing through the Kerem Shalom crossing, on Feb. 18, 2025. The fragile Gaza truce between Israel and Hamas took effect on Jan. 19 after more than 15 months of fighting, sparked by the Palestinian militant group's Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel. Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images
People ice skate and play hockey on a frozen lake in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany, on Feb. 18, 2025. Germany has seen a week of subzero temperatures that have brought snow and frozen bodies of water. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Faithful visit St. Peter's Square in Rome on Feb. 18, 2025. Pope Francis was hospitalized on Friday with bronchitis and was subsequently treated for a respiratory tract infection. On Monday, the Vatican confirmed the 88-year-old pontiff will remain in the hospital as the “complex clinical picture” around his health is addressed. Antonio Masiello/Getty Images
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani shakes hands with India's President Droupadi Murmu during the emir's ceremonial reception at India's presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, India, on Feb. 18, 2025. Money Sharma/AFP via Getty Images
New York Mayor Eric Adams arrives for a press conference with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City, on Feb. 18, 2025. Adams spoke to members of the press after visiting an NYPD officer who sustained non-life-threatening injuries after a police standoff with a barricaded suspect at an apartment building on the Lower East Side. It comes as four deputy mayors from his administration resigned over his cooperation with President Donald Trump on immigration, which prosecutors on his bribery case alleged was part of a deal in which the Trump administration's Department of Justice ordered them to drop charges against Adams. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Wood carving artisan Ghulam Nabi Dar shows designs crafted on a wooden piece, at his workshop in Srinagar, India, on Feb. 18, 2025. Tauseef Mustafa/AFP via Getty Images
Israeli soldiers detain two men in the Tulkarem camp for Palestinian refugees during an ongoing Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank on Feb. 18, 2025. Since Jan. 21, the Israeli military has been conducting a major operation in the “triangle” of Jenin, Tubas, and Tulkarem, where half a million Palestinians live. Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images
Soldiers carry the flag-draped coffin of former German President Horst Koehler at the conclusion of the state memorial service for Koehler at the Dom Cathedral in Berlin on Feb. 18, 2025. Koehler was president of Germany from 2004 to 2010. He died aged 81 on Feb. 1 following a brief but severe illness. Maja Hitij/Getty Images
An Afghan tea vendor waits for customers at a livestock market on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Feb. 18, 2025. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images
Palm Beach County Sheriffs office mounted officers patrol watch the motorcade of President Donald Trump enter the Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2025. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images
In this aerial photograph, people visit a giant maze made of snow with an area of about 3,000 square meters, considered to be the largest in the world, in Zakopane, Poland, on Feb. 18, 2025. Sergei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images
Students take part in the celebrations of Gambia's 60th Independence Day in Banjul, on Feb. 18, 2025. Muhamadou Bittaye/AFP via Getty Images
Artists make drawings by a pond outside the ArtScience Museum next to the city skyline in Singapore on Feb. 18, 2025. Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty Images
Montenegro's President Jakov Milatovic and the President of Italy Sergio Mattarella review a guard of honor prior to their meeting in Montenegro's historical capital Cetinje on Feb. 18, 2025. Savo Prelevic/AFP via Getty Images
People wait for a train on the platform at Sudirman Station in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Feb. 18, 2025. Aditya Irawan/AFP via Getty Images
A tourist poses for a photograph on the steps of the Sydney Opera House, Australia, on Feb. 18, 2025. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images
Elodie Sutra caressing and hugging and cuddling one of her cows in the pastures of Le Sarrenc in Auriac in the Aude department in southern France on Feb. 18, 2025. Elodie Sutra breeds Gascon cows and calves in the Aude Corbieres, on the edge of the Hautes Corbieres state forest. JC Milhet/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images
