A photograph released by Russian state media showed Timur Ivanov in Moscow in 2018. Mr. Ivanov is known as a protégé of Sergei K. Shoigu, the Russian defense minister.

Ecuadorean police officers entered the Mexican Embassy in Quito on Friday night to arrest Ecuador’s former vice president.

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

President Dina Boluarte of Peru speaking in San Francisco in November. She has declined to explain the origin of Rolexes she has been seen wearing.

Marielle Franco, who was killed in 2018, was one of Brazil’s rising political stars and had battled corruption and gangs in Rio de Janeiro.

Children on a school trip to the wooden bridge, built as a “treetop canopy walkway,” in Nyirmartonfalva, eastern Hungary, in February. The site attracts very few visitors.

André Ventura, the former television sports commentator who leads the far-right Chega party, at a January rally in Lisbon.

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, has presented herself as the new face of the Russian opposition.

A viewpoint over the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia, this month.

Serhiy Pashinsky at his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, in August.

Aleksei Navalny in Moscow in 2013.

Aleksei Navalny in Moscow in 2013.

Aleksei Navalny during his campaign for mayor of Moscow in 2013.

Supporters of Imran Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, blocking a highway in Quetta, Pakistan, on Monday in protest of what they believed were skewed election results.

Former President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, who has been suspended by the African National Congress, could undermine its chances in this year’s elections.

The FIFA corruption case burst into public view with the arrests of top soccer officials at a Zurich hotel in 2015.

S. Iswaran, center, Singapore’s former transport minister, arriving at a court with his legal team in Singapore on Thursday.

Alejandro Giammattei on Election Day in June in Guatemala City. He denied taking bribes related to a Russian project.

The Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol in 2022. With the destruction of Azovstal, Rinat Akhmetov, the plant’s owner, lost an industrial jewel accounting for one-fifth of Ukraine’s steel output.

President Bernardo Arévalo of Guatemala and his vice president, Karin Herrera, greeting onlookers from the balcony of the National Palace to celebrate their inauguration on Monday.

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu in 2018. He was sentenced to serve 5 and a half years on various charges on Saturday.

Bernardo Arévalo, running on an anticorruption platform, won a landslide victory in Guatemala’s presidential race — but his adversaries in the legislative and judicial branches are stepping up efforts to bar him from taking office.

Joseph Boakai during a campaign event in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, in September.

A politician known to some as “the godfather of sex,” Chuwit Kamolvisit’s anticorruption efforts have made him a household name in Thailand.

Vadim Kobzev, right, one of the lawyers representing opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, during an appeals court hearing in Moscow last month.

Voters waiting in line on Tuesday for the polls to open in Monrovia, Liberia.

A funeral on Friday for people who died in a fire at a wedding hall this past week in northern Iraq.