Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly magazine is a round-up of the world news, opinion and long reads that have shaped the week. Inside, the past seven days' most memorable stories are reframed with striking photography and insightful companion pieces, all handpicked from The Guardian and The Observer.

Editor’s Notes

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

‘Fear is at every corner’ • Surging gang violence has led to political collapse followed by port blockades – displacing hundred of thousands of people and cutting supplies in a country where chronic malnutrition is already rife

Plundered • Two centuries of exploitation have paved the path to anarchy

‘Usual suspects’ • Only a radical reset of political accountability can bring change

Spotlight • Who gains? The ‘carbon cowboys’ cashing in from credit schemes

EXPLAINER

Evacuated residents call for wider war against Hezbollah • Inhabitants of northern towns emptied after 7 October say they cannot return unless militants are pushed back

Proxy threat • How strong is Hezbollah and what is its role in Lebanon?

Eyewitness Iceland

‘A warm war’ • As stalemate persists, Moscow raises its spying game in Europe

The decade that changed Crimea • Vulnerabilities have been exposed by Kyiv, but hopes are slim of the province ever returning to Ukraine after 10 years of Russian annexation

Letters home reveal hopes and fears of new arrivals in America

Out of time? • Racism row leaves Sunak looking weaker than ever

Island queen • In search of the rare ‘monkey-eating’ eagle

Route cause • Marathon feat to make racism run out of road

Bollywood film shines a light on dark-skin prejudice

Gathering dust • How cathedral rooftops could hold the key to cosmic secrets

Growing rift • Why IVF court ruling has split GOP on abortion

The Chinese battery maker that has the US worried

‘The little girl in Persepolis? She has grown up’ • After the global success of her graphic novel, Iranian writer Marjane Satrapi focused on other forms of storytelling. She tells Angelique Chrisafis how the situation in Iran inspired her return to drawing. Plus: exclusive extracts from her new collection of comic strips about life under the regime

Facing Arizona • The state Republican party is undaunted by electoral defeats for those claiming voting is rigged – and election officials are bearing the brunt of their fury in the place that has become the ground zero of Trump’s big lie

Opinion Timothy Garton Ash • Putin may have been ‘re-elected’, but Ukraine could yet topple him

Georgina Lawton • Romantic fiction: our addiction to swiping makes us miserable

Gary Younge • In Britain’s degraded politics, fighting racism is a cynical game

The GuardianView • Africa’s homophobic laws: western influences are behind the surge in hatred

Opinion Letters

Culture Stealing the show • Adrianne Lenker, singer and guitarist from US indie folk band Big Thief, on her latest solo work and disconnecting from modern technology

Misleading messaging for fans is Taylor-made • Before a note from the next album has been heard, Swifties have turned sleuths, spreading baseless allegations about its assumed subjects

The celebrity pod delusion • From Bill Gates to Dua Lipa, podcast hosts are now more famous than their guests. How did your own show become a must-have?

Reviews

Nowhere is safe • A Palestinian author and politician’s devastating eyewitness account of the Israel-Gaza war as he saw his relatives killed

Stardust memories • This candid...