Under rules proposed last week, the next advanced A.I. models might need the government’s permission to be exported out of China.

Labor abuses and criminality are not hard to find in the world’s unlicensed gold mines. Assuming someone visits.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brasília on Monday. He is taking on a right-wing candidate in a runoff on Oct. 25.

Workers clearing debris within a former processing plant as part of preparations to reopen the Panguna copper and gold mine.

Erik Prince, the American military contractor, has sought opportunities in resource-rich countries plagued by conflict, mostly in Africa.

A 15-year-old using social media apps in Australia in July, more than half a year after the country had implemented a ban on children under 16 using many platforms.

Strancally Castle in Waterford, Ireland, was built around 1830 and renovated in the early 2000s. It now belongs to Mark Zuckerberg.

Flowers at the site of a crash that killed an 18-year-old student last year in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Malaysia’s social media ban for children under 16 was supposed to take effect on June 1.

President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi leader, have extensive ties.

A Meta logo at a conference in Mumbai, India.

MP Materials’ open-pit rare-earth mine in Mountain Pass, Calif., in 2020.

Pedro Sánchez, center, Colombia’s defense minister, visiting an illegal mining operation in and around a military base last month.

China’s leader, Xi Jinping, greeting Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week in Beijing. Mr. Bessent is leading the U.S. delegation at the G7 finance ministers’ meeting in Paris this week.

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.

President Trump with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil at an economic forum last year in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

An illegal mine on protected land of the Yanomami people in the Brazilian Amazon.

Regulators in Europe said Meta appears to be violating the Digital Services Act, an E.U. law passed in 2022 to force social media companies to police their platforms more aggressively.

Ron Paul, then a Texas congressman for the Republican Party, in 1983.

Meta has described the two teams already as “deeply integrated.”

This illegal mine near Caucasia, Colombia, sells gold into the Royal Canadian Mint’s supply chain.