A commander with the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force playing guitar and singing with fellow resistance members in Karenni State, in February.

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

The crookie joins a long list of popular fusion bakes, including the brookie, the cronut and the cruffin.

A recently-opened Apple Store in Shanghai’s Jing’an district in March. Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads, which are owned by Meta, from its app store in China.

Abshir Rageh, in red shirt and cap, on the set of a TV drama he’s filming in Mogadishu, Somalia.

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

The ByteDance offices in Shanghai last year.

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.

Members of Fossil Free Netherlands, which has brought a lawsuit against the Dutch airline KLM for misleading consumers with its sustainability claims, outside the Amsterdam court in December.

Karim Bouamrane in his office in St.-Ouen, France. “I’m using the Olympic Games as a political weapon,” he said.

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

Catherine, Princess of Wales; her husband, William; their three children and a niece walking to church on Christmas Day. It was her last public appearance before an abdominal operation in January.

Conspiracy theories have swarmed around Catherine, Princess of Wales.

A Ukrainian soldier after loading shells into an American-made Paladin howitzer near Bakhmut last year. Russian operatives are laying the groundwork for what could be a stronger push to support U.S. candidates who oppose aiding Ukraine.

President Vladimir V. Putin in the Grand Kremlin Palace two days before a terrorist attack on a concert hall in Moscow.

An installation of the Chinese Communist Party flag, at the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing in 2022.

British newspaper coverage of the palace’s release of a doctored photograph of Catherine, Princess of Wales, and her children.

Migrant agricultural workers unloading fruit crates in a citrus grove in Faro, Portugal, on Tuesday.

Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist, recently interviewed Ayub Ibrahim, a 20-year-old migrant from Somalia, in a migrant camp in Panama. Mr. Ibrahim later said he felt ambushed.

Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been at the center of a maelstrom of speculation in Britain and elsewhere.

A closed McDonald’s restaurant in Nikko, Japan, on Friday.

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.

Commuters walked past copies of The Evening Standard, whose front page featured a photo of Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales, at a subway station in London on Tuesday.

Catherine, Princess of Wales, at the Royal Family’s Christmas Day service on the Sandringham Estate in eastern England in December.

Catherine, Princess of Wales, on Christmas Day in Sandringham, England.

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

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.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany and President Emmanuel Macron of France last year in Potsdam, west of Berlin.

Oksana Semenik standing in front of a large image of a painting by Maria Primachenko, one of Ukraine’s most popular painters and a subject of Ms. Semenik’s research, last month in Kyiv.

Critics of Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, appear to have faced an elaborate dirty-tricks operation.

While British newspapers reported the existence of paparazzi photos purportedly of Catherine, Princess of Wales, none of them published the images.

Her work is funded by Exxon, he’s skeptical of industry. Rebecca Grekin, left, and Yannai Kashtan at Stanford, where they study and teach.

Fans at a memorial room for Goo Hara in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, in November 2022, three years after her death.

Lyn Slater, 70, a style influencer, recounts her triumphs, transformations and troubles in her book, “How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly From the Accidental Icon,” to be published in March.

Yulia Navalnaya in Brussels, on Monday.

Members of the Republican Guard carrying the coffin of Robert Badinter, a former French justice minister, during a ceremony in his honor in Place Vendôme in Paris on Wednesday.

Imran Khan in Islamabad in 2019.

The Pakistani ex-prime minister Imran Khan, as seen on a computer screen in the city of Karachi last week. Though in jail, he has managed to speak to his supporters courtesy of an A.I.-generated voice.

A rainbow of Stanley tumblers on display.

Robert Badinter in Paris in 2006.

Karolina Shiino, center, posing with other prize winners after she won the Miss Japan 2024 contest, in Tokyo, last month, in this handout photograph from Miss Japan Association.

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