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.

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.

A protest against the extradition law in Hong Kong in June 2019.

Lawmakers in Hong Kong passed sweeping new security laws on Tuesday.

Ms. Swift’s performances are a boost for Singapore’s post-pandemic economic recovery.

Lee Hoyang, better known as Shinsadong Tiger, in Seoul in 2015.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III came under widespread criticism last month when he went to the hospital for several days without disclosing it to the White House.

Nicole Kidman and a few crew members were granted an exemption to the quarantine rule in Hong Kong to shoot “Expats,” during the pandemic. The special treatment angered residents.

Bae Hyunjin, a People Power Party lawmaker, at the National Assembly in Seoul last year.

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

Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean opposition leader, speaking to reporters on Wednesday after leaving Seoul National University Hospital.

Lee Jae-myung after the attack on Tuesday morning in Busan, South Korea. By midafternoon there was still no official word on his condition, but local news reports suggested that his life was not in danger.

Police officers investigating a vehicle in which the body of Lee Sun-kyun was found in Seoul on Wednesday.

Lee Sun-kyun arriving at a police station for questioning over accusations of illegal drug use in Incheon, South Korea, last week.

A small group of activists, calling for a cease-fire, demonstrated near the Defense Ministry this month in Tel Aviv.

Kathleen Folbigg, right, was embraced by a friend, Tracy Chapman, outside the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday.

Sally Abed, 32, and Alon-Lee Green, 35, leaders of Standing Together, an organization that works for peace between Israel and Palestinians, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.

Greek refugees in the early 1920s, after the Treaty of Lausanne ended the conflict between Greece and Turkey.

Last month, air raid sirens sounded six times in Kyiv, the fewest number since the Russian invasion started in February 2022.

Online threats against Jews and against Cornell University’s kosher’s dining room prompted university officials this week to guard the building and the school’s Center for Jewish Living next door.

The state police on guard at the Center for Jewish Living at Cornell University on Monday after online threats.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said she would be in Israel until Friday on a “solidarity mission.”

Joran van der Sloot in Lima, Peru, last June, shortly before being extradited to the United States.