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

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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...