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The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, Vladimir Putin pays his respects, big-wave surfers compete, and more

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by Lauren Hansen
December 23, 2016

Russian President Vladimir Putin pays his respects to slain Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov, during the funeral ceremony at the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow.

(ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images)

Kashmiri fishermen cover their heads and part of their boats with blankets and straw as they wait to catch fish in Anchar Lake, Srinagar, India.

(REUTERS/Danish Ismail)

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British big-wave surfer Tom Butler drops in on a wave during the Nazare Challenge championship at Praia do Norte in Nazare, Portugal.

(REUTERS/Rafael Marchante)

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A woman and her dog mark the winter solstice at the 5,000 year-old stone age tomb of Newgrange in the Boyne Valley at sunrise in Newgrange, Ireland.

(REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne)

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Former astronaut and United States Senator John Glenn lies in state, under a U.S. Marine honor guard, in the Rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus.

(NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via REUTERS)

A cheetah mother licks one of her six cubs at Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands.

(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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A memorial for the victims of the Christmas market attack in Berlin, Germany.

(REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke)

Costumed participants take a break during a traditional Perchtenlauf (Perchten parade) in Osterseeon near Munich, Germany.

(REUTERS/Michaela Rehle)

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The Ft. Logan National Cemetery in Denver.

(REUTERS/Rick Wilking)

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A pile of seized narcotics and alcoholic drinks burns on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan.

(REUTERS/Omar Sobhani)

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President-elect Donald Trump greets a group of Azalea Trail Maids during a stop on his USA Thank You Tour in Mobile, Alabama.

(REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

Men rest while waiting for a Mass in honor of the Catholic Saint Lazarus in El Rincon, Cuba.

(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)**See last week's best photojournalism**

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