Voters lined up outside a polling station in Moscow on Sunday.
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.
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.
Joanna Chen, whose essay about the war in Gaza led to turmoil at Guernica, a literary magazine.
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.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, left, and Premier Li Qiang at a meeting in Beijing on Monday.
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.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking this week in Laval, Quebec. His government will appeal a court’s decision rebuking his handling of a protest.
Maria Kartasheva at home in Ottawa. A Russian dissident, she was sentenced by a Moscow court to eight years in prison for spreading “false information” about the war in Ukraine.
Yegor Shtovba, right at rear, and a fellow defendant, Artyom Kamardin, at a Moscow court in December, with guards in the foreground.
A poster for “Kaathal” in Kochi, a city in the state of Kerala in southern India.
The social media platform X has scaled back its content moderation policies since Elon Musk bought the service last year.
A mourner laying flowers near a school in Eragny-sur-Oise in 2021 during a ceremony held one year after Samuel Paty, a teacher, was beheaded by an extremist.
Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard, second from the left, presenting a bill banning Quran burning, in August.
Agnes Chow, a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, being arrested by police at her home in Tai Po, Hong Kong, in August 2020.
A memorial portrait of Samuel Paty in 2020 at a bus stop in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, the Paris suburb where he taught.
A protest in Berlin in solidarity with Palestinians. Some European governments, citing security fears, have imposed limitations on these demonstrations, raising concerns about civil liberty violations.
An award ceremony honoring the Palestinian author Adania Shibli was canceled at the Frankfurt Book Fair, one of several events touching on Palestinian culture and society called off since the war.
Mourners gathering in Arras, France, on Sunday, two days after a teacher was killed in a knife attack at a public school in the city.
Arundhati Roy attending a protest last week at a club for journalists in New Delhi.
Travelers at Los Angeles International Airport. The Biden administration has maintained a requirement that applicants for U.S. visas disclose their social media profiles.