Jonathan Powell, Britain’s national security adviser, outside 10 Downing Street, London, last year.

A student turning over his phone before entering a classroom in Mexico City on Tuesday. Mexico has clamped down on phone use in schools.

Sally Rooney in Dublin in 2021.

People use their mobile phones at dusk in Brisbane, Australia, in December. The country already bans those under 16 years of age from using social media.

King Abdullah II of Jordan during a visit to Washington last year. Jordanian officials have said their country received $1.65 billion from the United States last year in economic and military assistance.

From left, Lee Cheuk-yan in 2019, Chow Hang-tung in 2021 and Albert Ho in 2019.

People protesting outside the High Court in London in February as judges prepared to rule on a legal challenge to the British government’s decision to designate pro‑Palestinian group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization.

Guo Degang performing cross talk in Beijing in 2011. The comedy genre, also known as xiangsheng, mixes scripted and improvised sketches.

Boris Nadezhdin, a Russian opposition politician, at his home in Moscow in June. His departure means antiwar Russians have one fewer advocate in the country’s ever-shrinking public sphere.

A satellite image from February shows military planes at Jordan’s Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Al-Azraq, where U.S. troops were killed in July.

New students of the National Defense Academy saluting the Japanese flag at a review parade in Yokosuka, Japan, in April.

Élfego Riveros, a reporter in Teocelo, Mexico, whose satirical spot for a community-run radio station resulted in five reporters being found guilty of gender-based political violence.

A Taliban security officer using a mobile phone in Kandahar, Afghanistan, last year. Civil servants and members of the country’s armed forces have been told not to bring smartphones to work.

Demonstrators gathered on Monday as the Court of Appeal ruled on the government’s ban of Palestine Action.

People holding up cellphones at a concert in Toronto.

Cenk Uygur in New York in 2023. He called the decision to cancel his travel authorization “absolutely Kafkaesque.”

A village near Taipei. Taiwan officials are confronting what they say is growing Chinese infiltration of the island’s politics, media and internet.

Outside a mosque in Peacehaven, England, after an arson attack in October.

Argentine security forces seizing a young man in 1982 in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War.

Red Square in Moscow. The Victory Day procession, one of the year’s biggest events, is staged in the heart of Kremlin power.

Dimitri K. Simes, now living permanently in Moscow, said he believed that the Biden administration’s antipathy had its roots in the allegations that he had been involved in efforts by Russia to contact the Trump campaign.