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.

Editor’s notes

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

Global report • United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Pause and effect Aid corridors fail to ease fears as hunger worsens • Humanitarian groups have welcomed limited aid access to parts of Gaza but say only a ceasefire can prevent famine, as Palestinians report dire conditions and express doubt the measures will have any real effect

Easing of blockade • Will ‘pause’ make a difference?

‘Really cautious’ • Why the ICJ is years away from a ruling on genocide in Gaza

Civilians flee as Russia continues kamikaze advance

Why is Seoul silent about the North’s presence in Ukraine?

One family counts cost of war that lasted just five days • How a simmering feud between Bangkok and Phnom Penh erupted into border clashes and rocket strikes

‘Japanese First’ • Rightwing gains spark fears of backlash against foreigners

Eyewitness Switzerland

A new start • How Corbyn and Sultana’s party could blow up British politics

Press shift: the rightwing media’s pivot to Reform • Papers offer glowing coverage to Nigel Farage as Conservatives fear they will continue to back his party at the next general election

Why are we obsessed with faking nature? • As humans destroy the natural world, the surviving scraps of nature are being packaged for our consumption

On a mission • Evangelists are finding ever more covert ways to target Indigenous peoples – despite laws protecting isolated tribes

Human flycatchers lure insects in the name of science

Comic relief • Cartoonists turn pens on president’s ‘avenger’ son

The life of plastic From the farmer’s field to your fork • Microplastics have been found in the placentas of unborn babies, the depths of the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest and the organs of Antarctic penguins. Here is the story of how plastic moves through soils, birds, mammals – even making its way into the food we eat

‘Get over it’ • Trump base shrugs off fallout from Epstein files

Freed men speak of horrors in El Salvador mega-prison

The go between • Qatar’s stature as peace negotiator trying to solve some of the most intractable conflicts belies its tiny size. How and why has a country once described a ‘foreign policy afterthought’ achieved such progress?

Are students getting too reliant on AI? What I learned from reading their ChatGPT logs • Young people use chatbots for anything from academic queries to emotional quandaries. Three undergraduates hand over their chat log of 12,000 prompts and reveal all

Simon Tisdall • Starmer’s cosy relationship with Trump is not in Britain’s interest

Sarah Mac donald • Baby boomers must be as frank about death as they were about sex

Ava Vidal • Let England fans cheer the women and banish talk of years of hurt

The GuardianView • Stability in Syria lies with its people – but sectarian divides are being inflamed

Opinion Letters

‘All kinds of people, all walks of life’ • 100 years of the Grand Ole Opry, country music’s greatest institution

Ozzy Osbourne 1948–2025 • His early life offered few prospects, but the Black Sabbath frontman became a rare rock star that fans could relate to – and later, against the odds, a national treasure

Bobs and monsters • Fraser Grace’s play Breakfast With Mugabe felt urgent in 2001 when the Zimbabwean...