The week's best photojournalism
In the week's most striking images, an Afghan woman surveys a barren scene, Chinese officers take a muddy dive, and more


Two women embrace while looking at a police officer in Charlotte, North Carolina, during a protest of the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott.
(REUTERS/Jason Miczek)

An Afghan woman carrying her son walks past a local brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul.
(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Paramilitary policemen take part in a drill in Baise, China.
(REUTERS/China Daily)

Mahouts guide forest department elephants to demolish houses outside the Kaziranga National Park in northeastern Assam state, India.
(AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Ludmila Ezhova, 80, who is unable to travel to her nearest polling station, prepares to cast her ballot for the parliamentary elections remotely, in Moscow.
(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

A lion rests in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
(REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

Dawoodi Bohra Muslims are reflected in the rear mirror of a parked scooter as they walk past the site of an under-construction mosque in Mumbai.
(REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui)

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The cast and crew from Veep, including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, accept the award for outstanding comedy series at the Emmys in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

A man brings his buffaloes back home in Kandal province, Cambodia.
(REUTERS/Samrang Pring)

A sniper fires towards Islamic State militant positions in Sirte, Libya.
(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

A man spins children on a homemade merry-go-round in a vacant lot in Peshawar, Pakistan.
(REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz)**See last week's best photojournalism.**