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

Behind enemy lines • Tensions rose as long-range missiles flew from and into Russia last week. But in truth, the west has been under attack from hybrid warfare since the Ukraine invasion began

Wire cutters • How the world’s undersea cables are being targeted

Change of heart • Will the missile crisis af fect the course of the war?

Spotlight • Does lame duck Biden have time to Trump-proof democracy?

Rhapsody in red • In Trumpworld, radical selections go down a storm

Western first • PM’s war crime charge is landmark moment

John Prescott 1938–2024 • The UK’s longest-serving deputy PM was a vital bridge between Labour’s past and future during the Blair years

Eyewitness Iceland

Climate is ‘the big loser’ in huge year of elections

Cop29 summit • Bitter battles could follow controversial $300bn a year deal

Collapsing landscapes • How climate change is tearing apart an Arctic isle

Fear and sympathy in small town divided over asylum camp • A year after anti-immigration riots, a site for asylum seekers faces hostility while some locals try to help new arrivals

Brain gain • Can a radical tax scheme convince the country’s brightest to stay?

Cheap pints and sticky carpets: the old-school pub is back

Strike zone • Waking up to the rising threat of lightning

Different strokes My strange and emotional week with an AI pet • Moflin can develop a personality and build a rapport with its owner – and doesn’t need food or exercise. But is it comforting or alienating?

Deaths shine spotlight on risks of drinking on party trail

Out of tune? • Band Aid under fire for Africa tropes as it turns 40

Life in the grey zone • Neonatal care has advanced so far that babies born as early as 21 weeks have survived. But is this type of care always the right thing to do?

‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’ • Spain is increasingly either parched or flooded – and one group is profiting from these extremes: the thirsty multinational companies forcing angry citizens to pay for water in bottles.

Opinion Jonathan Freedland • Netanyahu is a wanted man – and he has only himself to blame

Van Badham • If kids get protected from online harm, how about the rest of us?

Geoffrey Lean • Baku summit shows climate progress can survive Trump 2.0

The GuardianView • Selling a bit of fruit for $5m isn’t bananas, it’s decadent. Art is better than this

Opinion Letters

Culture Revolutionary road • Fifty years ago Kraftwerk released Autobahn, a 23-minute song about a motorway that changed pop music. Tim Jonze goes back to the routes that inspired its futuristic brilliance

Playing politics • With Silo, Tim Robbins is still choosing roles he truly believes in that echo real life. But he’s now concerned about the wider future of his own industry, too

Reviews

Cold comfort • Andrew Miller’s finely nuanced story of two couples, set in the Big Freeze of 1962, skilfully evokes the legacy of the second world war

Intense illumination • A fascinating study of Paradise Lost, through the eyes of myriad readers, shows how it has provoked a range of interpretations

Fruit of friendship • The ecosystem around a small berry inspires an...