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.

Eyewitness El Salvador

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

United Kingdom

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SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Fears grow over far right’s rise • Ahead of a snap parliamentary vote, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is polling high across much of the country. Can the party actually win power – and what would it try to do if so?

‘Russian roulette’ • Macron’s ballot box gamble is the stuff of centrist nightmares

Identity crisis • Beware rebranded far right’s creep into the mainstream

Spotlight • Renewed Russian strikes take heavy toll on Kharkiv

Key powers fail to sign peace summit communique

No end in sight • Israel’s conflict with Hamas and Hezbollah grinds on

US warns of the most catastrophic famine for four decades

Eyewitness United States

The Brexit omertà Why both main parties are scared to mention the B word • It was once the defining issue in British politics – but this time around no one, it seems, is in any way keen to discuss the UK’s place in the EU

Cornish language enjoys a renaissance

Snow patrol Inside the fight to save arctic foxes • Captive breeding has helped reduce threat from predators and the climate crisis – but can the species survive long-term?

‘It’s tragic’ Teen Afghan girls on life without school • Barred from education for more than 1,000 days, girls face forced marriage, violence and isolation with no end in sight

The women whose words are tackling Wikipedia’s male bias

Cats in flats • Delight as covert pets finally given legal status

Life support Why looking after No 1 isn’t always best • Research has confirmed the health benefits of supporting others. And the deeper the engagement, the better it gets

Will supreme court ethics prove to be a key election issue?

Russian warships bring cold war frisson to Havana

‘We’re in 1938 now’ Putin’s war in Ukraine and lessons from history • Some analysts believe Kyiv is buying the west time on the precipice of a world war. Does the experience of previous conflicts suggest this time is being used wisely?

The vinyl frontier • As album sales boom in the UK, so has the illegal trade in poor-quality fakes. But dogged record detectives are fighting back against the bootleggers

Opinion Simon Tisdall • Rising violence against politicians is an attack on democracy itself

Anya Ryan • I’ve swiped away my dating apps – and life feels all the better for it

Jonathan Freedland • If Starmer is a ‘political robot’, he’s one that has been hardwired to win

The GuardianView • Heatwaves are on the rise and without urgent action, the death tolls will grow

Opinion Letters

Culture All the rage • The designer and activist has been making waves for decades. Now she’s back with an urgent political message

Alive and Kicken The gallery that’s pivotal to how we see photography • Co-founded before the medium was taken seriously as art, this Berlin venue is turning 50 by celebrating its collection – and photography itself

Culture Reviews

A wild ride • Tragedy and farce collide in the Irish author’s beautiful, lovable and fun tale of lovers on the run in 19th-century Montana

A disaster foretold • The story behind 1986’s Challenger space shuttle explosion is a gripping catalogue of underfunding and stifling bureaucracy

Burning bright •...