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The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, a woman tends to a field of flags, Pope Francis is fawned over by nuns, and more

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by Sarah Eberspacher
May 22, 2015

A volunteer with the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund replaces damaged flags on the Boston Common, ahead of Memorial Day.

(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

A mahout splashes water on his elephant in Ahmedabad, India.

(REUTERS/Amit Dave)

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Nuns greet Pope Francis at the Vatican.

(REUTERS/Tony Gentile)

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A lobster covered in oil lies on Refugio State Beach in Goleta, California.

(REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)

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Gordon Satterly, 61, from Michigan (left) kisses his husband Richard Brand, 53, from Texas, at the International Gay Rodeo Association's Rodeo in the Rock party, in Little Rock, Arkansas.

(REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)

Children ride on a roller coaster during their visit to the Everland amusement park, in Yongin, South Korea.

(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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A Nepalese soldier carries a young victim of an earthquake toward a makeshift medical center.

(REUTERS/U.S. Marine Corps/Gunnery Sgt. Ricardo Morales/handout via Reuters)

Arizona softball players celebrate after a teammate tied their game against Minnesota in the bottom of the seventh inning, in Tucson, Arizona.

(AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

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A Western Lowland Gorilla baby named Mjukuu rides on the back of her mother Mbeli, in their enclosure at Taronga Zoo, in Sydney, Australia.

(REUTERS/David Gray)

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Boys walk arm-in-arm behind patrolling soldiers in Bujumbura, Burundi.

(REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

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Synchronized swimmers perform at the M&G Retreat Garden, at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show, in London.

(REUTERS/Toby Melville)

A boy, who recently arrived in Indonesia by boat, holds a ball at a shelter in Kuala Langsa.

(REUTERS/Beawiharta) **See last week's best photojournalism**

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