Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference following the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington on March 18, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
Civil defense members gather around a destroyed vehicle that was targeted by Israeli bombardment in Sidon, Lebanon, on March 18, 2026. Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on March 2 when pro-Iran terrorrist group Hezbollah launched rockets towards Israel in response to U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader and other high-ranking officials. Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images
A shopowner waits for customers at a market in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, on March 18, 2026. Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images
Volunteers place coffins of victims who were killed in a Pakistani air strike on a drug rehabilitation center, into a mass grave during a burial ceremony at the Badam Bagh Hilltop in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 18, 2026. The Taliban have said that around 400 people were killed and more than 200 wounded on the night of March 16, in the deadliest attack yet in the recent upsurge in violence between the two neighbours. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images
A general view of the vinyl record collection in Guy Samba’s shop in Brazzaville, Congo, on March 18, 2026. Guy Samba says he inherited the vinyl record collection after his father’s death and would like to pass it on to his own children. At his shop, customers can buy cassettes, DVDs, and vinyl records. To update his stock of vinyls, he offers to buy them from customers wishing to part with them. Daniel Beloumou Olomo/AFP via Getty Images
Denmark’s King Frederik X plays table-tennis during a visit to the Headspace National Youth Reference Group and Headspace South Melbourne Youth Advisory Group in Melbourne, Australia, on March 18, 2026. Jesse Thompson/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
An Israeli emergency responder inspects the impact of an Iranian missile strike at an apartment, leaving an elderly couple dead in Ramat Gan, Israel, on March 18, 2026. Amir Levy/Getty Images
Onlookers gather after a fire broke out at a residential building in New Delhi, India, on March 18, 2026. Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images
A seven-month-old male Japanese macaque monkey named Punch, who was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth, sits with a stuffed orangutan toy at Ichikawa City Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, on March 18, 2026. Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP via Getty Images
People wait for a train to depart at a railway station in Karachi, Pakistan, on March 18, 2026, as they head to their hometowns for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr festivities. Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) testifies during his confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Homeland Security on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 18, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
Mourners follow the hearse transporting the coffin with the body of the late Georgia’s Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II prior to a memorial service to be held at the Sameba Cathedral in Tbilisi, Georgia, on March 18, 2026. Georgian Orthodox Church leader Ilia II died on March 17 at age 93, the church said, after nearly half a century at the helm of one of the country’s most powerful institutions. Giorgi Arjevanidze/AFP via Getty Images
Nigerian soldiers prepare to patrol during the visit of Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff General Olufemi Oluyede at the Headquarters Theatre Command Joint Task Force in Maiduguri on March 18, 2026, after one of the deadliest attacks in the Borno state capital in years. The triple suicide bombing killed 23 people on March 16, 2026. Audu Marte/AFP via Getty Images
People pass by campaign posters of the three remaining candidates for Paris mayor (L-R) socialist Emmanuel Gregoire, right-leaning Rachida Dati, and left-leaning Sophia Chikirou, outside Paris’s 7th arrondissement city hall, four days ahead of the second round of France’s municipal elections, on March 18, 2026. Guillaume Baptiste/AFP via Getty Images
A snow leopard walks across a terrain at Shang village in the Leh district of India’s Ladakh region on March 18, 2026. Mohd Arhaan Archer/AFP via Getty Images
Large crowds gather during a joint funeral held for Iran’s Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani, Basij commander Major General Gholam Soleimani, and 84 sailors from the Iranian Navy frigate IRIS Dena, in Tehran, Iran, on March 18, 2026. Larijani and Gholamreza, two of the highest-ranking Iranian officials to be assassinated since the outbreak of the war on Feb. 28, were killed in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on March 17, according to Iranian state media. The 84 sailors were killed when the IRIS Dena was sunk in a torpedo strike by the USS Charlotte, an American submarine, off the coast of Sri Lanka on March 4. Majid Saeedi/Getty Images
A statue of labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez is displayed at the Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Park in San Fernando, Calif., on March 18, 2026. The United Farm Workers said it will cancel or withdraw from Cesar Chavez Day events after abuse allegations involving its late cofounder Cesar Chavez, and is working to establish independent channels for potential victims to come forward. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
(L-R) Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe, Army Lt. Gen. William Hartman, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. James Adams III, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel testify during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington on March 18, 2026. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
A Lockheed U-2 “Dragon Lady” high–altitude reconnaissance aircraft flies in the skies above RAF Fairford in Fairford, England, on March 18, 2026. Since UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer backtracked on his initial refusal to allow the United States to use British bases to launch defensive strikes against Iranian missile sites, a variety of U.S. military aircraft, including B52 and B-1 bombers, have been spotted at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. Leon Neal/Getty Images
People enjoy the warm weather under blossoms in St James’s Park in London on March 18, 2026. Some parts of the UK recorded temperatures beyond 20 degrees Celsius today, making it the country’s warmest day of the year. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
