A DJI drone flying supplies to a search and rescue team during a training exercise in Ogden, Utah, this month.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s measure, which draws on provisions in a 1978 law legalizing abortion in Italy, could bring more anti-abortion activists into counseling centers.

The action announced on Monday is the second E.U. investigation against TikTok.

House Speaker Mike Johnson took an extraordinary political risk to defy the anti-interventionist wing of his party and push through the foreign aid package.

Supply management brings stability, but at a price.

The former headquarters of ByteDance, the parent company of the video sharing app TikTok, in Beijing.

A protest against the British government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, outside the Home Office, in central London, in December.

Siddharth Hariharoan tries to control a toy helicopter with his mind through the MindWave Mobile, a device by NeuroSky that reads brain waves.

From left, Lisa Paus, the German minister for family affairs, senior citizens and women and youth; Karl Lauterbach, the health minister; and Marco Buschmann, the justice minister, at a news conference in Berlin on Monday.

Ukrainian border guards patrolling along the Tysa River, facing Romania, in Tyachiv, Ukraine. The Romanian authorities say more than 6,000 men have turned up on their side of the river since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

Ukrainian military recruits training in Kyiv in October.

Members of the European Parliament voting on the migration overhaul in Brussels on Wednesday.

Ukrainian soldiers training in the country’s Donetsk region on Monday.

The five-judge panel of Uganda’s Constitutional Court at a hearing in Kampala, the capital, on Wednesday. “The upshot of our judgment is that this petition substantially fails,” one judge said.

The aftermath of the strike on the Iranian Embassy complex on Tuesday in Damascus, Syria.

Edinburgh, Scotland. A conviction under the country’s new hate crime law could lead to a fine and a prison sentence of up to seven years.

Officials indicated they would shut down Al Jazeera in Israel.

Britain’s Conservative government has argued that the best way to stop the arrival of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers was to ensure they could not remain in the country.

Dachshunds have long been a national symbol in Germany.

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

Migrants crossing the English Channel this month. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain says his government’s Rwanda policy is the best way to deter migrants from making the perilous crossing.

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

Pro-democracy activists at a candlelight vigil at a downtown Hong Kong park in 2003. Public pressure that year forced city leaders to back down on a package of security laws known as Article 23 legislation.

Protesters outside the National Assembly in the capital of Gambia on Monday hold signs asking legislators not to repeal the law banning female genital cutting.

Di Sanh Duong at his warehouse in December in Melbourne, Australia.

If the TikTok bill were to become law, it would likely deepen a cold war between the United States and China over the control of important technologies.

A protest over the Alternative for Germany party and right-wing extremism in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin in January.

Police block students trying start a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act in India’s Assam State on Tuesday.

Taking a selfie inside the presidential residence after protesters took control of it in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 2022. The pool was part of a meme after the protests in Sri Lanka that year.

A gambling ad in New York featuring Wayne Gretzky

Repairs in Kyiv after a Russian strike damaged Ukrainian electricity lines last winter. The court argues that attacks on civilian infrastructure like this were a war crime.

Hong Kong officials are scrambling to pass a law that has long been pushed by officials in the Chinese Communist Party.

The Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia, whose two new reactors cost $35 billion, nearly double the initial estimates.

A same-sex couple in Accra, Ghana, last month. Ghana’s bill is the latest in a wave of anti-gay legislation passed in Africa, including in Uganda, where an anti-gay law includes the death penalty.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s proposal would extend funding for some government agencies for a week, through March 8, and the rest for another two weeks, until March 22.

China has fortified its national security and data sharing laws, while waging an all-of-society campaign against espionage.

WanaBana apple-cinnamon fruit purée pouches were among three products made in a plant in Ecuador that were found last year to be contaminated with lead.

Karl Lauterbach, Germany’s health minister, left, and Lisa Paus, the minister for family affairs, senior citizens, women and youth, at the Bundestag, Germany’s Parliament, in Berlin on Friday.

Participants carried a giant pride flag in the Athens Pride parade last June.

Last year, Californians threw away more plastic bags, by weight, than when the state’s ban first passed.

Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader, at the Capitol during the vote. He has vocally championed aiding Ukraine.

Ville Kuusisto, a Finnish border guard master sergeant, at the crossing near the Russian town of Vyborg.

Office workers in the central business district of Sydney, Australia.

Installing a billboard in Budapest on Tuesday denouncing “gender propaganda.” The line at the bottom reads, “Let’s not dance as Brussels whistles.”

Bi-2, one of Russia’s most popular rock bands, performing in Dubai last year. Members of the band were arrested in Thailand last week for an immigration violation, where, their supporters said, Russian officials spent days pushing Thailand to deport some of them to Russia.

Pita Limjaroenrat, center, of the Move Forward Party at the Thai Parliament in Bangkok on Wednesday.

Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of protecting abortion rights, at the National Assembly, on Tuesday.