The week's best photojournalism
In some of the week's most striking images, Catalans face off against Spanish police, monkeys congregate on a beach, and more
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Kelly Gonsalves
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(Image credit: The Associated Press)

Spanish national police block people trying to reach a voting site assigned by the Catalan government in Barcelona, Spain.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti))

A fox yawns in the back garden of a London home.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Matt Dunham))

Air Force One flies past the broken windows of the Mandalay Bay hotel, from which gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of thousands of concertgoers in Las Vegas.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mike Blake))

Nitro Circus ringleader and stunt professional Travis Pastrana performs a motorcycle backflip over the River Thames in London.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Alastair Grant))

Members of Indonesia's army celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the country's military in Cilegon.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Beawiharta))

A commuter on a scooter plows through a flooded street in Bangalore, India.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/JAGADEESH NV))

Chechen brides attend a mass wedding in Grozny, Russia.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev))

Canoeists train in the early morning fog on the Emmarencia Dam in central Johannesburg.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/KIM LUDBROOK))

A Rohingya child carries an infant at a refugee camp in Palang Khali, Bangladesh.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain))

Gas masks, which were used during Ireland's conflict known as the "Troubles," hang in a walled-off, pro-Britain Protestant enclave called The Fountain in Londonderry, Ireland.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne))

Monkeys hang out in Cayo Santiago, known as Monkey Island, in Puerto Rico.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa))

Boats sail on Lake Geneva at sunset near Lausanne, Switzerland.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT)**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.