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The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, Hurricane Matthew wreaks havoc, a Hindu artisan conjures a demon king, and more

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by Lauren Hansen
October 7, 2016

A woman walks on a highway littered with massive rocks — damage from Hurricane Matthew — on the coast of Guantanamo, Cuba.

(REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini)

An artisan applies final touches to an effigy of the demon king Ravana in preparation for the upcoming Hindu festival of Dussehra in Jammu, India.

(REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta)

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Goats wait to get unloaded from a vehicle at a livestock market in Kathmandu, Nepal.

(REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)

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Children who fled from Islamic State-controlled areas ride to the northern Syrian rebel-held town of al-Rai.

(REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi)

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Village women collect fodder for their cattle in Pallanwal, India.

(AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Hurricane Matthew batters Les Cayes, Haiti.

(REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares)

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Women wearing traditional Hungarian attire vote on a referendum on EU migrant quotas in Veresegyhaz, Hungary.

(REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo)

Russian President Vladimir Putin is put to work at a reserve for wild horses near the Urals city of Orenburg, Russia.

(Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

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A Canadian Sphynx cat is held by a judge during a feline beauty competition in Bucharest, Romania.

(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

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Children ride mechanical robots at a park in Beijing.

(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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Catfish gather in the corner of the Gundalao lake as they wait to be fed by onlookers in Kishangarh, India.

(REUTERS/Himanshu Sharma)

Priests take part in a deity's procession as part of the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal.

(REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)**See last week's best photojournalism.**

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