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The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, Vladimir Putin sinks into the sea, a peacock roosts, and more

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by Sarah Eberspacher
August 21, 2015

A woman buys "rakhi," or traditional Indian sacred thread, in a Kolkata marketplace.

(REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri)

The Columbian tall ship ARC Gloria is escorted by a slew of smaller boats as it arrives to participate in SAIL Amsterdam 2015, a festival celebrating the Dutch capital's maritime history.

(AP Photo/Cris Toala Olivares)

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Syrian refugee children look out from their tent at a makeshift settlement in Saadnayel, Lebanon.

(REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir)

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A peacock roosts in a tree in Crandon Park Gardens in Key Biscayne, Florida.

(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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People crowd onto a beach in Dalian, China.

(REUTERS/Stringer)

Bailie Key competes during the P&G gymnastics championships at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

(REUTERS/Marc Lebryk-USA TODAY Sports)

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An Afghan boy rides a bicycle across a dry lake in Kabul.

(REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail)

Russian President Vladimir Putin sinks into the Black Sea inside a research bathyscaphe during an expedition near Sevastopol, Crimea.

(REUTERS/Alexei Nikolsky/RIA Novosti/Kremlin)

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Migrants wait to depart aboard a train heading toward Serbia, at a railway station in Gevgelija, Macedonia.

(AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

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An airplane flies past a bank of clouds as the sun sets over Encinitas, California.

(REUTERS/Mike Blake)

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A man sits in front of a flock of pigeons resting on a pile of bricks in Kathmandu, Nepal.

(REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)

Surfer Arlen Macpherson sits on his board, which has an electronic shark repellent device installed, at Sydney's Bondi Beach in Australia.

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

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