Alexandra Sharp is the World Brief writer at Foreign Policy. Prior to writing World Brief, she worked as a deputy copy editor at FP; a city life editor at Vox Magazine in Columbia, Missouri; and as an editor at Genocide Watch. A Chicago native, she studied magazine journalism and international studies at the University of Missouri and reported in Costa Rica on climate change, immigration, and energy.
From left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walk before a military parade in Beijing.
Russian President Vladimir Putin strides forward on a red carpet with his hand outstretched as U.S. President Donald Trump waits with his hand out on another red carpet. Behind them are other people and officers next to the jetway of a plane.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk arrive at a press conference in Kyiv.
U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a trilateral signing with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the White House.
