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.

Emperor Naruhito, center, with his family on the balcony of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo earlier this year.

A demonstrator against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in Tel Aviv on Sunday.

At Benoit Merlo’s organic farm in eastern France.

Israeli military officers and noncommissioned officers during a ceremony in January at the Shura base in central Israel.

Protesters at the New York Public Library in December called for a cease-fire in Gaza.

A member of Mexico’s National Guard at the border fence in Playas de Tijuana in February. Some Biden Administration officials question whether the Mexican government is doing enough to drive down a surge in illegal crossings.

Prime Minister Leo Varadkar of Ireland before announcing his resignation on Wednesday in Dublin.

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

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.

The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, center, said Israelis must soon be offered the opportunity to select new leadership.

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.

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

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal arriving at Hotel Matignon, the prime minister’s residence, in Paris this month.

Keir Starmer, the leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, delivering a speech this month at a business conference in London.

Supporters of Imran Khan’s political party rallied on Saturday in Peshawar, Pakistan, asking for the release of the complete results of the parliamentary election.

Ricardo Martinelli, a former president of Panama and a top contender in May’s presidential election, has sought refuge in Nicaragua’s embassy in Panama City.

King Charles III meeting midwives and nurses at Buckingham Palace last year. Public engagements have long been a key image-maker for Britain’s royal family.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Jerusalem last year. Many Israelis blame him for the governmental and security failures that led to the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany speaking to the defense minister, Boris Pistorius, second from right, on Wednesday at the German Bundestag in Berlin.

President Nayib Bukele’s face adorns an apartment building in the Zacamil neighborhood of San Salvador. The Barrio 18 street gang controlled the neighborhood for decades until its members were arrested under Mr. Bukele’s crackdown.

Reducing postal delivery to three days a week would save the Royal Mail up to 650 million pounds, or about $830 million, a year, according to a report by Ofcom, Britain’s communications regulator.

There are markers all over Taiwan, like this one in Taipei, of its courtship of the United States.

Demonstrators protesting the far-right Alternative for Germany party, known as AfD, in Berlin this week.