To Narendra Modi’s legions of supporters, he is a magnetic figure and a powerful orator, with an image as a tireless, incorruptible worker for India.

The inconclusive outcome of the parliamentary vote on Wednesday signaled a new era of messy political uncertainty in the Balkan nation

President Nicolás Maduro after signing up as a candidate for Venezuela’s presidential elections.

A poll official working on electronic voting machines at a distribution center.

A protest against the Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, in January in Rostock, Germany. It was one of many around the country.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, in 2016 at a BRICS meeting in Goa, India.

President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea casting his early vote for the parliamentary election, in Busan, this month. Voters delivered a decisive defeat for his party.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma, in blue, at an event near Cape Town, last month. He has broken with the governing African National Congress, and is heading a new political party.

Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party and Yoon Suk Yeol of the People Power Party during the presidential election campaign in Seoul in 2022.

Peter Pellegrini casting his ballot in Bratislava in the first round of Slovakia’s presidential election in March.

With a portrait of Kuwait’s ruler, Sheikh Mishal Al Ahmed Al Sabah, looming overhead, Kuwaitis voted for Parliament in Al Riqqa district on Thursday.

Since President Xi Jinping’s rise to power, China has stepped up efforts to sway elections in Canada and other countries, according to intelligence officials, academics and members of the diaspora.

Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula in court in Pretoria, South Africa, on Thursday. She stepped down as speaker of the country’s National Assembly this week.

Han Dong’s testimony was part of an ongoing federal inquiry into foreign meddling in Canada’s political system, especially the general elections of 2019 and 2021.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife, Emine Erdogan, at his party headquarters in Ankara, the Turkish capital, early Monday.

Supporters of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in Istanbul on Sunday.

The top opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye flanked by his two wives after voting in the presidential election in the West African nation of Senegal last Sunday, in his hometown, Ndiaganiao. He won resoundingly.

A Ukrainian soldier after loading shells into an American-made Paladin howitzer near Bakhmut last year. Russian operatives are laying the groundwork for what could be a stronger push to support U.S. candidates who oppose aiding Ukraine.

Corina Yoris, an opposition candidate, during a news conference in Caracas on Monday announcing that she was unable to register to run for president.

Oliver Dowden, Britain’s deputy prime minister, in London earlier this month. He was expected to address Parliament on Monday.

Mr. Faye after casting his ballot at the École Ndiandiaye polling station in Ndiaganiao, Senegal, on Sunday.

Voting on Sunday in Ziguinchor, Senegal, in an election that many young people see as a chance to overhaul the political and economic order.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India campaigning in Hyderabad last week.

Corina Yoris, a philosophy professor, right, and the former lawmaker María Corina Machado. They announced on Friday in Caracas, Venezuela, that Ms. Yoris would run against President Nicolas Maduro.

Watching President Macky Sall of Senegal speak at a news conference last month. He tried to postpone a presidential election that was only three weeks away.

Vaughan Gething poses for a photo, in a lecture hall at Cardiff University, after being elected as the next Welsh Labour leader and First Minister of Wales, in Cardiff, Saturday, March 16, 2024.

The visage of President Vladimir V. Putin was part of the stage at a celebration in Red Square after his “re-election.”

Ireland’s prime minister, Leo Varadkar, at a European Council summit in Brussels on Thursday, a day after he said he would step down.

Prabowo Subianto gesturing after casting his ballot in Indonesia’s presidential and legislative elections, in Bogor, West Java, in February.

Thousands of Russians gathered on Red Square in Moscow on Monday, a day after Vladimir V. Putin was declared the winner of a stage-managed presidential election.

Voters at a polling station in Moscow on Sunday, as part of a protest against President Vladimir V. Putin.

President Vladimir Putin said the election results reflected “internal consolidation” that would let Russia “act effectively at the front line” in Ukraine.

A presidential election poster in Moscow on Sunday.

Voters lined up outside a polling station in Moscow on Sunday.

Some Russian voters are concerned that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia may introduce new economic measures after the voting.

Some Russian voters are concerned that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia may introduce new economic measures after the voting.

Members of a local election commission, accompanied by a soldier, prepared a mobile polling station for early voting in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region of Ukraine on Thursday.

Supporters of the Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and the presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye celebrated after the men were released from prison in Dakar late Thursday.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia with members of a youth organization at the Russia 2024 Expo in Moscow last month, in a photo released by Russian state media.

St. Petersburg this month. Russia is taking a systemic approach to change the way its domestic internet functions, according to civil society groups, researchers and companies that have been affected.