The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most eye-catching images, Santas prepare to race, a horse bathes in the Caribbean, and more

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People wearing Santa Claus costumes gather to take part in the 2016 Athens Santa Run in Athens.
(Image credit: The Associated Press)
Costumed runners prepare to compete in the 2016 Athens Santa Run in Greece.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis))

Military veterans huddle together during protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/David Goldman))

Men exercise among the trees on a cold winter morning in Kashmir, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Danish Ismail))

Fireworks explode next to riot police during clashes following an anniversary rally marking the 2008 police shooting of a 15-year-old student in Athens.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis))

A wedding ceremony at a camp for internally displaced people in Khazir, near Mosul, Iraq.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban))

Choristers from St Paul's Cathedral choir rehearse at the cathedral in London.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne))

A Texas A&M student signs a message board on campus for an "Aggies United" event to counter a white nationalist speech at the university.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)])

People walk along the Neva River at sunset in St. Petersburg, Russia.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky))

A family, whose patriarch, an imam, was arrested in 2015 and hasn't been heard from since, gathers at their home in Kanifing, Gambia.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Jerome Delay))

A handler bathes a horse in the Caribbean Sea near Bridgetown, Barbados.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Adrees Latif))

Pope Francis kisses a baby during his weekly general audience address at the Vatican.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini))

The Mont-Blanc mountain surrounded by a sea of mist near Geneva, Switzerland.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)**See last week's best photojournalism.**)

Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.