U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Friday that it was implementing new guidelines to identify minors in spousal and fiancée visas. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption
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Supporters stand on a roof with placards and banners as they attend a campaign rally of the Nigerian opposition leader Atiku Abubakar on Thursday in Jimeta, eastern Nigeria. Luis Tato /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A mob in India set fire to vehicles on Friday, in protest of Thursday's attack on a paramilitary convoy in Kashmir. Channi Anand/AP hide caption
HIV-positive patients and their families protest hospitals' lack of medicines and supplies in Caracas, Venezuela, in April 2018. Some patients are fleeing to neighboring countries like Peru in search of lifesaving anti-retroviral drugs. Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Marines preparing to build a military site in western Anbar, Iraq, in November 2017, as an outpost in the fight against the Islamic State group. Khalid Mohammed/AP hide caption
Haitian police have struggled to control street protests as demonstrators call for President Jovenel Moise to resign over alleged misuse of the Petrocaribe fund. Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Students hold placards as they shout slogans during a protest at the state university in Manila, Philippines, on Thursday in support of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, who was arrested a day earlier. Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Mourners carry the coffin of Ko Ni, a prominent Muslim lawyer who was shot dead in 2017. Ko Ni's killer was sentenced to death on Friday. Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Indian security forces inspect the remains of a vehicle following an attack on a Central Reserve Police Force convoy that killed at least 44 officers and injured several others in Kashmir south of Srinagar on Thursday. STR/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency in Moscow, is implicated in the latest report released by Bellingcat. The international investigative group says it has identified the third suspect in the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal. Pavel Golovkin/AP hide caption
Rosa Ashby runs Rosa Flowers in the English market town of Witney. Every flower in her shop, including lilies, chrysanthemums and lisianthus, is either grown in or distributed through the Netherlands. Frank Langfitt/NPR hide caption
The markhor, pictured above, is a species of wild goat found in Pakistan as well as places like Afghanistan, Tajikistan and the Himalayas. Zahoor Salmi/Getty Images hide caption
Health staff prepare a cholera treatment tent in September 2018. The country's health system lacks the capacity to contain diseases like cholera. Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, shown here in January in Cairo, could stay in office until 2034 if constitutional amendments approved by parliament pass a popular referendum. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AP hide caption
Friends of Loujain al-Hathloul made a photo to parody a Vogue Arabia cover image showing a Saudi princess in a red convertible. Pictured here (left to right) are Ayendri Ishani Ridell, Urooba Jamal, Narissa Diwan, Atiya Jaffar and Rauza Khan. Hathloul "took a huge risk to advance women's rights in her country," Jamal says, "and now is facing the most heinous injustices." Doaa Jamal hide caption
Concern Grows For Loujain Al-Hathloul, Jailed Saudi Women's Driving Activist
In this 2015 photo, Koyuki Higashi (left) and Hiroko Masuhara celebrate and hold up their same-sex marriage certificate in Tokyo. Today 13 gay couples filed a lawsuit arguing the country's general rejection of same-sex marriage rights violates the constitution. Christopher Jue/Getty Images hide caption
Emirates' inaugural A380 flight to San Francisco International Airport approaches the gate in 2014. Airbus announced Thursday it is stopping production of the A380 in 2021 after Emirates canceled dozens of orders. Tony Avelar/AP Images for Emirates hide caption
A rare black leopard, caught on camera in Laikipia Wilderness Camp, Kenya. Will Burrard-Lucas/Burrard-Lucas Photography hide caption
A bomb attack on a Revolutionary Guards bus in Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan Province Wednesday killed some 40 people. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images via Fars News Agency hide caption
Germany's Lufthansa airline hopes to put the brakes on the practice of "hidden city" ticketing, saying a passenger owes it more than $2,000 because he didn't use part of his round-trip route. Michael Probst/AP hide caption