Testing for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands of people have died in this year’s outbreak.

Shahul Hamid Ahmad, the owner of Tefcas Marine, a small shipping agency that was hit with U.S. sanctions, standing in his empty office in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, in September.

Two teenage American weapons traffickers — who provide weapons to Mexico’s deadly drug cartels — practice shooting at targets in the desert outside of Phoenix, Ariz.

Two teenage American weapons traffickers known as El Flaco, left, and Chuy, in the desert outside Phoenix, where they shot rifles.

Residents stood behind police tape near the scene where gunmen armed with assault rifles stormed a bar in Johannesburg on Sunday.

The U.N. Security Council convened its first meeting on artificial intelligence last week.

A Magura sea drone at a test site in central Ukraine in June.

South Korea’s president, Lee Jae Myung, during an interview earlier this month.

María del Carmen Abascal, 87, after she was evicted from her Madrid apartment on Wednesday. “I wasn’t able to defend my home, but I did fight so that others can learn to fight for theirs,” she said.

Cientos de manifestantes intentaron detener el desalojo de María del Carmen Abascal, de 87 años, de su casa en Madrid el miércoles.

President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea at the Blue House, the presidential compound in Seoul, on Friday.

President Lee Jae Myung spoke with The New York Times for about 70 minutes at the Blue House, the presidential compound in Seoul.

A departure board displays delayed and canceled flights at London City Airport following disruptions caused by an air traffic control issue in Britain, on Monday.

Dr. Jean Kaseya, the director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in July in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Chaos and confusion were abundant at Heathrow Terminal 5 in London on Tuesday. The authorities attributed the disruption to a technical problem in the air-traffic control system.

People in line at the check-in desks at London’s Heathrow Airport on Tuesday.

Active shooter drills, like this one at a school in Bangkok last month, have become sought after in Thailand.

“It is something positive against a very sad background,” said Naaja Nathanielsen, center, one of two Greenlanders in Denmark’s Parliament.

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, center left, on Friday arriving at the site of a school shooting near Bangkok. He said that new gun laws were “one of my to-do things.”

Health workers at an Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in June.

A French nuclear submarine. France has expanded its nuclear deterrence to cover some allies as the United States has pulled back on European security.

Pope Leo XIV has been a steady critic of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.

The Treasury Department in Washington.

A satellite image showing the field hospital at Laikipia Air Base in central Kenya, where America aid workers are being quarantined.

Inky Mark in Ottawa in 2005. He served as a member of Parliament from 1997 to 2010.

An Ebola outbreak has killed hundreds of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year.

Forensic police officers on Tuesday at the site of a shooting in Stade, Germany.

The scene where five people were killed on Monday in a shooting in Stade, in northern Germany. A sixth victim died at a hospital.

A destroyed bridge over the Dnipro River, which forms the border between Ukraine and Belarus, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine, this month.

A satellite imagery taken on June 21, 2025, shows destroyed buildings at Isfahan nuclear site, Iran.

Tehran last week. Tensions have been high between Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog since the 12-day war last June.

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, on Sunday at the Bürgenstock resort in Switzerland.

President Trump in Évian-les-Bains, France, for the Group of 7 meeting on Wednesday.

President Trump arrived in Paris on Wednesday and headed a dinner with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, at the Palace of Versailles.

Demonstrators in Washington in 2025 protest the withholding of funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, PEPFAR.

Treating a patient suspected of having Ebola at a hospital in Mongbwalu, Democratic Republic of Congo, last month.

Gathering in Tehran earlier this month., Iran affirmed in the agreement that it would never seek to build or procure a nuclear weapon, but the regime has made that promise many times previously.

Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan’s defense minister, and his German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, at a naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, in March. The countries have been building up their militaries.

A giant screen in Beijing displayed news footage on Monday of the meeting between China’s president, Xi Jinping, and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, in North Korea.

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.

Xi Jinping, China’s leader, with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, in Beijing in September. Analysts say China is likely keen to assert its influence over North Korea as Pyongyang has leaned toward Russia.

Climbing through rubble in central Beirut, Lebanon, after an Israeli airstrike in March.

Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps at a government-organized demonstration in support of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader, in April.

People walking near a billboard depicting the closure of the Strait of Hormuz in Tehran, Iran, this month.

President Trump in New York on Friday.

A billboard in Tehran depicts the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, speaking in Geneva on Wednesday.