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
A monument to confused ambition • Has Trump reached his Vietnam moment? Though far shorter, the current Middle East war has exposed the strategic weakness of American firepower in an interconnected world
‘We are only trying to survive right now’ Civilians left to suffer fallout from war • Some Iranians hoped foreign intervention would unseat the regime but instead they face a broken economy and further repression
The test that could spare breast cancer patients from chemo
Cancer jab can melt away entire tumours in patients
‘It’s like the West Bank’ Life inside the Israeli ‘yellow line’ • Residents live in fear of nightly raids and daytime bombings from Israel’s military occupying their land
Capture of a castle that sends a shock to Lebanese
Gifts for the gods
Cultural jewels of Kyiv left devastated by blasts
Going Dutch • Vital lessons for the UK on how to tackle youth job crisis
The household battery revolution • Australia is leading the way in solar power generation and storage, proving what is possible with the right policies
Positive spin Can music help mend a fractured society? • Artists hope their laundromat project can counter isolation as report warns of fraying of the nation’s social cohesion
EU accession vote sparks fear of ‘Brexit moment’
‘Catnomics’ shows feline fixation brings more than luck
Time beings • Bringing history to life for a new generation
Tackled head on • A pioneering study aims to find out how repeated head blows in women’s
Families ask how Kenneth Law was able to profit from suicides
Local heroes • Civil rights groups rally over ICE fear at World Cup
HOW GAZA’S BIGGEST POP STAR BECAME A FLASHPOINT • Caught between desire and disapproval, Saint Levant’s celebration of Palestine shocks and inspires. How does he see himself?
Hollow promises • Kerthunk! The pain of potholes has made them a political flashpoint from Manchester to Manhattan. Now road users are fighting back
Simon Tisdall • Can the EU punch harder? That’s the question for new members
Jonathan Liew • Elon Musk’s X is well beyond redemption. Don’t give it legitimacy
Polly Toynbee • Labour must pay heed to young people, not elder statesman Blair
The Guardian View • As Trump looks for peace with Iran, the threat of catastrophe in Gaza grows
Opinion Letters
The joy of illustration • Quentin Blake, Cressida Cowell, Lauren Child and more on the craft of bringing children’s books to life
Why Cannes got it wrong with over-feted Fjord • Film about European cultural differences isn’t a patch on Cristian Mungiu’s previous Palme d’Or winner, but runners-up included some standouts
Village people • As the long-running BBC radio drama The Archers embarks on a UK stage tour, a Guardian food writer and Ambridge obsessive meets her heroes
Reviews
Trojan words • A brilliant guide to the pleasures, pitfalls and politics of translating the ancient world
Twisted love • A gothically overstuffed tale of a cynical young woman in a crumbling university town
Mind the gap • A psychologist explores the fraught debate about how and why men and women differ
TOM GAULD
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