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
Thousands of displaced Gazans are on the move again, packing their lives into carts and pickup trucks, as Israel’s campaign against Hamas rages on This is the emptying of Rafah
Sanctions • War and rising settler violence could further alienate Israel
Tug of war • Biden just wants this over, but Netanyahu and Hamas have other ideas
Spotlight • Vast online scam dupes thousands of shoppers
Chaos theory Rise in Beijing espionage cases alarms European countries • While Xi Jinping toured the continent last week, concern has grown at impact of China’s covert intelligence operations
Ghost city • Civilian life on the edge of Russia’s advance
Massacre and famine fears in besieged Darfur city
Eyewitness Weather
Calling time ? Garrick vote fuels debate over letting women in • Some of London’s last all-male private clubs are discussing female membership – while also consulting the lawyers
Blurred vision • Starmer has laid out his plan to tackle asylum. But will it work?
Catwalk show shines a light on fast fashion’s vast clothes dump • Activists and designers raise awareness of the devastation to land and people in the Atacama desert, which has become a ‘global sacrifice zone’ for textile waste
‘Pretendians’ Controversy over formerly unheard-of First Nation • Local chiefs claim Kawartha Lakes group is part of wave of cases in which people falsely claim Indigenous identity
Wheel life • Cycling gives women of Tigray a road to recovery
The park where a late dictator still smiles on his people
Fight or flight Are we ready for bird flu? • The H5N1 virus has been devastating bird populations, and is now infecting mammals too. Is human-to-human transmission next?
Brief encounter • Trump voters don’t care about Stormy Daniels’ lurid testimony
Restaurant is winner in rappers’ escalating war of words
‘HOPELESS AND BROKEN’ • We asked 380 climate scientists what they felt about the future. They are terrified, but will keep fighting
WHAT CAN YOU DO? • Voting tops the list as experts reveal the most powerful climate actions we can all take
Believe it or not • Raffaella Spone was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and subjected to death threats. The problem? The video wasn’t fake after all. She talks for the first time about being the centre of a story that created headlines around the world, yet nothing was as it seemed …
Opinion Simon Tisdall • Mandela’s party has left a land of broken dreams. Its time seems over
Marina Hyde • Why didn’t Netflix do more to avoid the Baby Reindeer furore?
Fintan O’Toole • A failure to reckon fully with the Troubles fuels distrust and discord
The GuardianView • When MPs cross the floor, it’s a triumph of political theatre over substance
Opinion Letters
Reframing Freud • Rose Boyt, daughter of the artist Lucian Freud, sat for her father three times. Now 6 5, she has written a remarkable memoir based on diaries she kept while being painted
Hit and miss Goths, glory and plenty of gimmicks • It was the most politically charged Eurovision song contest in memory – but it was won by a famously neutral nation. As the glittery dust settles from Saturday night...