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

Heroes or villains? • States with low dependence on fossil fuels are best placed to lead the green transition, but some are being criticised for ‘hypocrisy’ as new gas and oil projects surge. These are the other petrostates

Future prosperity Petrostate with a clean, green image • As it rapidly adopts clean technologies while drilling furiously for oil and gas, the Nordic nation is a paradox

Club members • It’s not just the usual suspects – other countries are ramping up oil production

Spotlight • Town’s shock and anger at deaths of 12 children in rocket strike

Beaches party on in the wait for war • Tourists still come to enjoy the sun and sea, but behind the scenes, preparations are under way for a conflict with Israel that seems inevitable

On repeat • Election fraud fears as Maduro wins again

Crackdown on student protests sparks ‘mass movement’

Eyewitness Kenya

Reeves acts to plug £22bn hole ‘covered up’ by Tories • Measures include winter fuel payments cut for wealthier pensioners and shelving cap on social care payments

Tough decisions • Will Labour’s carefully honed narrative land with the public?

‘Naive’ • Western DJs play Russian techno events

The refugee beaten and conscripted into Putin’s war machine

Water wars • The admiral who wrecked his ship to thwart China

Professor fired in abuse case as #MeToo earns rare win

‘They tried to silence us’ • Musicians who escaped the Taliban

‘Miracle’ HIV drug only needs to be injected twice a year

Life on Mars Nasa scientists spend 378 days in simulation of future mission • For a crew of four volunteers who agreed to be locked in a mock-up of the red planet, even lettuce leaves became objects of wonder

Expired drugs pose risk to astronauts

‘Kamalove’ • The gen Z voters who could swing the election

Questions remain after US arrests crime cartel kingpins

Gaza voices • All Palestinians in Gaza have been affected by Israel’s response to the Hamas attacks of 7 October. Here seven Gazans explain how they deal with destruction and displacement in a conflict that has lasted nine months and claimed more than 39,000 lives

The doctor • ‘One pregnant woman lost her husband, her kids, her leg – and her baby’

The translator • ‘We still haven't found a tent. We are on the pavement, but others don't even have that pavement’

The orphanage director • ‘I carried a small boy with cerebral palsy to safety but he died when his medicine ran out. We could not save him’

The aid worker • ‘We feel neglected, ignored, like we mean nothing to the world'

The paracyclist • ‘I ride through ruined streets but we will train until our last breath ’

The archaeologist • ‘This war has burned humans, stones, trees. Nothing is left’

My father, the Nazi • My father did terrible things during the second world war, and my other relatives were equally unrepentant. It wasn’t until my late 50s that I started to confront this dark past.

Opinion Will Hutton • Murdoch’s dynastic power play is a warning to rein in the super rich

Roman Krznaric • Does an ancient court reveal the solution to the world’s water wars?

Gaby Hinsliff • How police understand...