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 Greece
Global report • Headlines from the last seven days
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SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
On the brink • The bombing of Iran’s consulate in Syria, and the retaliatory attack on Israel, have brought an emnity long fought through proxies into the open
Iran’s attack has shifted focus from aid effort • As Israel becomes ‘victim overnight’, diplomatic efforts are moving away from plight of Gazans displaced by war
Gamechanger Direct attack on Israel is a crisis that affects us all
‘Land of gods’ is a testing ground for Modi’s nationalism
Russia ‘is waging an energy war’ against Kyiv
Pacifist who helped Ukrainians dies in jail • School teacher Alexander Demidenko guided refugees back to their homeland until he was arrested and tortured in prison by Kremlin forces
Eyewitness Indonesia
Calls to end ‘fear culture’ in gender research • Cass review found medical professionals scared to discuss views amid risk of reputational damage and online abuse
Taxing times Non-doms may flee over Labour plans
The stolen schoolgirls • Ten years on from Chibok, what happened to the 276 Nigerian girls who were snatched by Islamist militants from their school?
How the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus was found • After a 30-year hunt, the original was discovered in New South Wales having survived fires and floods
Second coming for Notre Dame’s salvaged artworks
Tall tales Children flock to the storyteller of Karachi
The sniff test Should gadgets appeal to our better senses? • Scientists say an overreliance on sight and sound in our digital lives is having a negative effect on wellbeing
A test for US justice as Trump’s criminal trial begins
Backpedalling Why Arizona’s abortion ban is a Republican nightmare
SWEPT AWAY • When the Ahr River in Germany burst its banks in 2021, 188 people died and whole villages and towns were destroyed. Could it all happen again?
RAIDERS of the LOST ART • At least 2,000 items from the British Museum were reported missing, stolen or damaged last year, and it now faces a massive overhaul. But it’s not the only institution that finds it hard to keep hold of its collections – and when that happens, who do they call? Mark Wilding meets the art detectives who track down disappeared treasures
The benign beef farm is a myth, so beware the new eco-documentary
Some may complain, but the din of rural life is exactly why I love it
For a year, the bodies have piled up – and still the world looks away
Pilgrimage has become a spiritual exercise for a new generation of wayfarers
Letters
Strat’s the one • How did a radio repair man make an instrument so sublime that it makes giants of music weep with reverence? As the Fender Strato-caster turns 70, we explore its extraordinary life
Ripley: a psychopath made for social media • Patricia Highsmith’s charming devil has fascinated film-makers since the 1960s, but his brand of evil seems well suited to the Instagram age
Can AI make intelligent art? • Pierre Huyghe’s uncanny machine-human hybrids are the latest attempt to find deeper meaning in a technology that leaves many playing catch-up
Reviews
Huck reimagined • This bravura rewriting of Mark Twain from enslaved Jim’s point of view is part critique and part celebration
New wave • How the author swapped journalism for the freedom, adventure...