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.

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Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

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SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Warning signals • The attempt on the life of Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, exposed divisions in one of Europe’s most polarised countries and sent shockwaves across the continent

Alarm bells • Behind the rise in violent attacks on Europe’s politicians

Self-fulfilling prophecy? • Political violence could benef it far-right parties in EU polls – if we let it

Spotlight • Rocky path President’s death comes as challenges lie ahead

News of Raisi’s death met with fireworks and few tears

Eyewitness Gaza

The race to evacuate Vovchansk’s remaining residents • Rescue operations ever more dangerous as fighting reaches Kharkiv town at the centre of Russia’s latest offensive

Game of thrones • War machine reshuffle reveals Putin’s fear of Kremlin rivals

Moving back to Moscow: how dream of freedom unravelled

Infected blood • Final report vindicates the families still awaiting justice

At a crossroads • Baku to step away from oil legacy as it prepares for Cop 29

Looking up The plaques that reveal hidden black history • Lisbon project celebrates the places where its African community has lived, worked and transformed the city

Judy fights back to give Mr Punch a modern touch

Outgunned • Police cling on in critical battle with violent gangs

Desert film festival brings home the plight of refugees

The heat is on • Memory lapses can be scary and hot flushes excruciating. But we know much more now about the menopause. And the aftermath can be amazing

Red flag? • Alito scandal casts doubt on supreme court impartiality

Sikh activist death brings long reach of Indian gangs into focus

The enforcer • For 40 years Amit Shah has been at Narendra Modi’s side, his confidant and consigliere. As India’s second most powerful man, he is reshaping the country in disturbing ways.

‘ I believe that Ricky’s law has saved lives, it has changed lives, restored families’ • Ricky Klausmeyer-Garcia’s friends struggled to get him addiction treatment, leading to the creation of a law in his name. But a year after his death, profound questions remain about how best to help those with substance use disorder in the US.

Opinion Martha Gill • Forget connectedness – the internet makes juveniles of us all

María Ramírez • Catalans once longed for freedom, but it doesn’t look so appealing now

Polly Toynbee • Tory war on overseas students is all about saving their own skins

The GuardianView • It’s up to Israel’s allies to persuade Netanyahu to stop standing in the way of peace

Opinion Letters

Culture Man of steel • On a beer-fuelled tour of Sheffield, Richard Hawley discusses the magic of his home city, his musical and getting an Oscar nod

Water mark Opera tells of dam’s destruction • Gaia-24, which has premiered in Kyiv, weaves musical styles together to explore the human and environmental disaster caused by Russia’s invasion

Creativity takes root • From Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tuscan Tarot Garden to Barbara Hepworth’s coastal oasis, artists’ green spaces are about so much more than plants

Reviews

Alice Munro 1931–2024 • The Nobel prize winner whose masterly accounts of ordinary lives in small-town Canada elevated...