The week's best photojournalism
In the week's most striking images, young priests take a bath, Mexican farmers take a stand, and more
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Kelly Gonsalves
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(Image credit: The Associated Press)

Young Hindu priests take a ritual bath during a festival in Kathmandu, Nepal.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar))

A forest fire rages on a hillside above the village of Ortale in Corsica, France.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Raphael Poletti))

Farmers donning Mexican straw hats take part in a march protesting the North American Free Trade Agreement, in Mexico City.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell))

Sailors salute during a naturalization ceremony onboard the U.S. Navy's newest guided-missile destroyer, the USS Rafael Peralta, in San Diego, California.
(Image credit: (EPA/DAVID MAUNG))

Taslima Khatun plays with her twin daughters Rabeya and Rokeya at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
(Image credit: (EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH))

People walk along a beach at sunset in Cadiz, Spain.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti))

A vendor arranges tomatoes at a vegetable market in Mumbai, India.
(Image credit: (EPA/DIVYAKANT SOLANKI))

A diver practices prior to the high diving events at the Swimming World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
(Image credit: (Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP))

A bumblebee sits on a blooming sunflower in a field near Sinsheim, Germany.
(Image credit: (EPA/RONALD WITTEK))

A crowd of people pack the beach in Morocco.
(Image credit: (EPA/ABDELHAK SENNA))

A British Airways plane flies near a rainbow on its way to Heathrow Airport in London.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kevin Coombs))

Thai students release sea turtles into the sea to celebrate the 65th birthday of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun.
(Image credit: (EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT)**See last week's best photojournalism**)
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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.