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.
French Prime Minister François Bayrou walks down a set of stairs after delivering his general policy statement during a confidence vote in Paris’s National Assembly.
A close-up photo shows Putin's face and upper body with red, blue, and white neon lights in the background. Putin is dressed in a suit and tie and has a neutral expression on his face.
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.
