Saudi Arabia Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman and Secretary of State Marco Rubio ahead of a meeting in the U.S. State Department Building in Washington on Feb. 25, 2025. Earlier this week, Salman also visited the Pentagon. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Vessels parked near Vopak storage Sakra terminal on Jurong island off Singapore on Feb. 25, 2025. Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty Images
The House Committee on Financial Services in Washington holds a hearing examining policies to counter communist China on Feb. 25, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
A worker carries out maintenance tasks at the Eustream gas facility in Velke Kapusany, Slovakia, on Feb. 25, 2025. The facility, which is the largest in Europe, here represents the entry point of gas from Ukraine, whose pipeline network has long carried Russian gas into Slovakia and other parts of Europe. As of Jan. 1, Ukraine halted the transit of Russian gas, saying it was funding Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine. The move forced Slovakia to receive gas via Hungary, which in turn receives Russian gas via the TurkStream network. Robert Nemeti/Getty Images
National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) chief Jaime Santiago beside a confiscated vehicle containing equipment during a press presentation of Chinese nationals and their Philippine accomplices, arrested for alleged espionage, at the NBI office in Manila, Philippines, on Feb. 25, 2025. Philippine authorities said on Feb. 25 that they detained two Chinese nationals for spying, the latest in a series of arrests involving alleged espionage as confrontations between the countries increase as China seeks to exert its claims to parts of the South China Sea. The men allegedly paid a trio of Filipino accomplices to drive them through the capital Manila while using an “IMSI catcher,” a device capable of mimicking a cell tower and snatching messages from the air in a 1-3 kilometer radius. Ted Aljibe/AFP via Getty Images
An aerial view of the Shotwick Solar Energy Park in Deeside, Wales, on Feb. 25, 2025. The array of photovoltaic solar panels at the Shotwick site produces 72.2 mega watts of electricity per year and is spread over 250 acres, currently making it the largest solar farm in the UK. Energy regulator Ofgem has announced the energy price cap will rise 6.4 percent in April, marking the third consecutive increases on gas and electricity charges. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
French convicted drug trafficker Mohamed Amra is escorted by police officers at the Henri Coanda International Airport in Otopeni near Bucharest, Romania, on Feb. 25, 2025, where he was put on an airplane to be extradited to France. Amra was on the run since being freed in May 2024 in an ambush that left two prison officers dead. French police have arrested 10 people suspected of aiding the convict, a prosecutor said on Feb. 23. Amra accepted on Feb. 23 his surrender to France by Romania, which should take place within 30 days, his lawyer announced after a hearing at the Bucharest court. Octav Ganea/AFP via Getty Images
A woman walks amidst book shelves at a bookstore inside a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, on Feb. 25, 2025. Manan Vatsyayana/AFP via Getty Images
Children scout for recyclable waste as they raft across river Yamuna in New Delhi, India, on Feb. 25, 2025. Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images
Lawmakers from the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) attempt to disrupt proceedings by blocking Premier Cho Jung-tai, from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), with placards during a session at the Parliament in Taipei, Taiwan, on Feb. 25, 2025. Yu Chien Huang/AFP via Getty Images
A selection of toy tractors are displayed outside the venue of the UK National Farming Union’s annual conference, to symbolize the alleged disruption to the next generation of farmers that will be caused by the new inheritance tax reforms in London, England, on Feb. 25, 2025. The National Farmers Union (NFU) is holding its annual conference with speakers and sessions around the theme of Foundations for the Future. In recent months, the NFU and farmers across the UK have staged protests to demonstrate their opposition to inheritance tax reforms, introduced in Chancellor Rachel Reeve’s Autumn Budget in October of last year. The government has said the changes are necessary to restore economic stability, but farmers argue that the cost to multi-generational farming families will be devastating. Leon Neal/Getty Images
The Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 25, 2025. Engineers have completed stacking the boosters for the Artemis II Space Launch System, as lunar launch preparations continue. The Artemis II crewed test flight will be a 10-day journey around the Moon, currently scheduled for April 2026. Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images
Acting head of the Constitutional Court, Moon Hyung-bae (L), and other justices arrive at the courtroom for the final hearing over South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law at the Constitutional Court in Seoul on Feb. 25, 2025. Jung Yeon-Je/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Traders selling watermelons wait for customers at a fruit market in Karachi, Pakistan, on Feb. 25, 2025. Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images
Two Palestinian boys sit atop a broken sculpture of Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock shrine that was destroyed by Israeli forces during a military raid on “senior terrorists” in Qabatiya, West Bank, on Feb. 25, 2025. John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images
This aerial view shows fireworks during celebrations in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on Feb. 25, 2025, as the Gulf state marks its 64th Independence Day and 34th anniversary of the end of the Gulf war with the liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi occupation. Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on Feb. 25, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
Employees of ViaMobilidade, a company that manages subway and train lines in the Sao Paulo metropolitan area, take the temperature of railway tracks in Osasco, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on Feb. 24, 2025. Every day there's intense heat, trains in Brazil are exposed to the risk of deformed tracks and derailments, as happened last week in the state of Rio. Nelson Almeida/AFP via Getty Images
Plaintiff Albert Corrieri, 102, leaves the court house after his trial against French state demanding compensation of the hours he worked in Nazi Germany during World War II as part of the STO Compulsory Labour Service, in Marseille, on Feb. 25, 2025. Some 600,000 French people went to Germany between 1942 and 1944 to support the German war effort. While some did so voluntarily, often deceived by Vichy propaganda, the vast majority were taken against their will. Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images
Canvas tents with air conditioning are set up as accommodation for Indonesia’s regional heads participating in a weeklong program to foster good governance at the Borobudur International Golf Course within the Military Academy Complex in Magelang, Central Java, on Feb. 25, 2025. Devi Rahman/AFP via Getty Images
Activists from the Ecological Observation and Wetlands Conservation (ECOTON) and students put up a faucet-shaped installation that drains out plastic waste during a protest to raise awareness of the impact of single-use plastics on the environment and human health in Surabaya, Indonesia, on Feb. 25, 2025. Juni Kriswanto/AFP via Getty Images
An indigenous woman holds the picture of a victim in a demonstration during the National Day for the Dignification of the Victims of the Internal Armed Conflict in Guatemala City on Feb.25, 2025. The 1999 Guatemalan Truth Commission’s report confirmed that more than 200,000 people died or disappeared during the 36-year internal conflict and held Guatemala’s Army responsible of 93 percent of the crimes. Johan Ordonez/AFP via Getty Images
A courier rides a bicycle near the open-air exhibition of destroyed Russian military vehicles on National Military History Museum in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb, 25, 2025. Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP via Getty Images
Protesters against the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) federal worker layoffs gather at the office of U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 25, 2025. Employees of the U.S. federal government on Feb. 24 faced a deadline imposed by Elon Musk that asked them to explain their work achievements in an email. Allison Robbert/AFP via Getty Images
The coffin of former senior Irish Republican Army (IRA) member Brendan McFarlane arrives in a hearse at Milltown cemetery as mourners gather for his funeral in Belfast in Northern Ireland, on Feb. 25, 2025. Former senior IRA member Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane died on Feb. 21, aged 74, following a short illness. McFarlane was jailed in 1976 for his part in the Bayardo Bar attack in Belfast, which killed five people and injured 60 others. He was released on parole in 1997, 14 years after he led an escape from the infamous Maze prison, Northern Ireland, in 1983. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
Afghan bakers speak along a road on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif on Feb. 25, 2025. Atif Aryan/AFP via Getty Images
A man holds leatherback sea turtle hatchlings before releasing them into the sea at Lhoknga beach, Indonesia’s Aceh province, on Feb. 25, 2025. Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP via Getty Images
