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

United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Grief and pain amid the echoes of Israel’s ‘war of resurrection’ • Crowds gathered at the site of the Nova festival and across Israel to mourn victims of the 7 October Hamas attack, even as new fears grew of a spiralling regional conflict

‘I’m bracing for the worst’ • Beirut’s youth adjust to an emptied city

Short-term gains • Lack of vision in multi-fronted war may be fatally exposed

Spotlight Residents pick up the pieces after hurricane devastation

White House blasts false claims about deadly storm

Divided opposition rocked by Navalny ally attack claim

Defensive bastion of Vuhledar falls to Russia

Eyewitness Spain

Chagos Islands • Behind the long legal battle for the right to return home

Tory party’s future hangs in balance after divided conference

‘Earth is sick’ Fires rage across South America • Huge tracts of land have burned from largely man-made blazes in Brazil and elsewhere, with people suffocating from the fallout

Employees hit back over long-hours corporate culture

Bullet from the blue • Six decades of Japan’s wonder train

Lucky numbers? The secrets of serendipity • Luck is often framed in terms of things that happen in our lives – but perhaps we should feel most fortunate for the fact we’re here at all

Christmas comes early to Caracas – by order of Maduro

Israel isolated by year of war • For many Israelis, the shedding of support since 7 October attack has revived a belief they cannot rely on others

‘It felt like death was chasing us everywhere we went’ One family’s journey across Gaza • The artist Maisara Baroud and his family have been displaced 12 times since the start of the Israel-Gaza war. He describes their journey and the impact of the fighting

Weathering the storm • Despite deep unpopularity outside his rightwing base, Benjamin Netanyahu continues to use war and political divisions to his advantage

‘I fear I will lose one of my children or more of my family’ • Gazan families mourn their dead and remember their lives before the war

Secular elite question their place in Israel’s future • Conflict accelerates a brain drain of liberals uneasy over the rise of religious influence

Opinion A chasm between viewpoints Jonathan Freedland

Raja Shehadeh • The war will not end until Israel sees the cost of its destruction

John Harris • The erosion of Britain’s history has nothing to do with statues

The GuardianView • Keir Starmer must sell voters the benefits of the EU before any Brussels reset

Opinion Letters

Culture Not the retiring type • He halted his stellar career, then a dream changed everything. From New York to swinging London and apartheid South Africa, he explains his epic journe

Inner depths A revealing new light on Asian art • The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has used neutron tomography and other techniques to reveal the secrets of treasures dating back millennia

Another day at The Office • The hit comedy created in the UK by Ricky Gervais and popularised by Steve Carrell in the US finally has an Australian version. What will fans make of it?

Reviews

Viral phenomena • Malcolm Gladwell revisits his influential study of social contagion to decode modern anxieties of opioids...