The week's best photojournalism

In the week's most striking images, a windsurfer braves a storm, British nuns vote, and more

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Boatmen wait in the polluted water near the river bank of Buriganga on the eve of World Environment Day, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Former FBI Director James Comey takes his seat at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik))

An opposition protester hides behind a handmade shield during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela.
(Image credit: (EPA/MIGUEL GUTIERREZ))

Boatmen wait near a bank of the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
(Image credit: (EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH))

Sand artist Marc Treanor creates a work on the beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Rebecca Naden))

A girl wears thanakha powder on her face in a Rohingya refugee camp in Myanmar.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun))

Nuns file out of their polling station in Hyde Park, London.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne))

Hindu women tie cotton threads around a Banyan tree during Vat Savitri, a festival in which married women fast and pray for their husbands' health and longevity, in Mumbai, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui))

Windsurfer Jake Kolnik sails during a storm in Cape Town, South Africa.
(Image credit: (EPA/NIC BOTHMA))

Muslims lay down on the floor as others read the Koran during the holy month of Ramadan in Jakarta, Indonesia.
(Image credit: (EPA/MAST IRHAM))

A girl protects herself from garbage and dust, raised by a gust of wind, in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Caren Firouz))

Haido Alexouli of Greece competes in the women's long jump during a sporting event in Prague, Czech Republic.
(Image credit: (EPA/FILIP SINGER))

Young sailors gather around a motorboat during a training session in the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
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Kelly Gonsalves
Kelly Gonsalves

Kelly Gonsalves is a sex and culture writer exploring love, lust, identity, and feminism. Her work has appeared at Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and more, and she previously worked as an associate editor for The Week. She's obsessed with badass ladies doing badass things, wellness movements, and very bad rom-coms.