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A Lukoil refinery near Burgas, Bulgaria. Once the sale of the Lukoil international assets is complete, the buyers plan to expand and retrofit different parts of its operations in Bulgaria and Romania.
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A graduation ceremony at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul in 2019.
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Houses buried in mud and debris in the Nuwakot district of Nepal on Aug. 28, two days after a glacial collapse caused devastating floods.
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Zambian police officers watched as supporters of President-elect Hakainde Hichilema celebrated his victory in the street in the capital, Lusaka, on Tuesday.
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President Hakainde Hichilema, center, running for re-election, after voting in Lusaka, Zambia, last week.
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A camp for people displaced by violence and drought in Somalia’s southern Gedo region, seen in April.
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A map presented by the State Department at AIDS 2026, a conference in Brazil this week.
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A health worker takes the temperature of a motorcyclist passing through a checkpoint to enter the city of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of the response to Ebola.
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Opposition party members in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, protesting a court ruling that changed their party’s leadership on Thursday.
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A health worker measures the temperature of a motorcyclist passing through a checkpoint in Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Thursday.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, speaking in Geneva on Wednesday.
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Monitoring visitors in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Ebola cases have been confirmed, on Monday.
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At a hospital in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, the center of a new Ebola outbreak.
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Muslima Ibrahim Mohamed, 38, holding her 2-day-old son, Noor Mohamed.
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A man working with silicon manganese at the Chinese-owned Datong Processing plant in Kabwe, Zambia, in 2024. Some analysts say that the Trump administration has used foreign aid to try to pressure Zambia to provide greater mining access.
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This illegal mine near Caucasia, Colombia, sells gold into the Royal Canadian Mint’s supply chain.