France's Culture Minister Catherine Pegard arrives for a meeting of the Strategic Partnership Council at the Elysee Palace in Paris on August 24, 2026. (Photo by LOU BENOIST / AFP via Getty Images)

France's Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot arrives for a meeting of the Strategic Partnership Council at the Elysee Palace in Paris on August 24, 2026. (Photo by LOU BENOIST / AFP via Getty Images)

Workers unload sacks of onions from a truck at a vegetable market in Amritsar on August 24, 2026. (Photo by Narinder NANU / AFP via Getty Images)

A worker carries a sack of onions at a vegetable market in Amritsar on August 24, 2026. (Photo by Narinder NANU / AFP via Getty Images)

Cranes are seen beside buildings under construction in Ulaanbaatar on August 24, 2026. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP via Getty Images)

Workers are seen at a construction site in Ulaanbaatar on August 24, 2026. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP via Getty Images)

Workers are seen at a construction site in Ulaanbaatar on August 24, 2026. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP via Getty Images)

A man uses his mobile phone as he stands in front of an anti-US billboard in Tehran on August 24, 2026. Iran responded with defiance on August 24 to a US threat of the "single greatest financial offensive ever", saying it was an admission of military defeat and warning countries against aiding Washington. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) /