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.

Eyewitness India

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Grief, hate and healing • The fatal stabbing of three young girls in a seaside town was followed by a wave of anti-immigrant riots, provoked in part by online misinformation. As Southport tried to mourn, how did events take such a turn – and what do they reveal about the nation’s communities?

Tragedy eclipsed • How the disorder unfolded

Streets of shame • Does the disorder show we are facing a dangerous new time?

Spotlight • What can stop the spread of Gaza’s flames?

POTENTIAL FLASHPOINTS • The players and their agendas

Free at last My friend Evan never lost hope • ‘We exchanged letters on a weekly basis for 16 months, and throughout his time in a Russian prison the journalist in him never faded’

Decision to release FSB hitman ‘not taken lightly’

Eyewitness France

‘Like Orwell and Kafka’ • New office homes in on Fidesz critics

Why has PM Sheikh Hasina fled the country suddenly?

The monk and a Hippo cleaning up plastic pollution • Desperate to restore the Chao Praya River, an abbot at a Bangkok temple began recycling – now he has an ally

Gangs dig Amazon’s newest ‘black gold’ • Illegal miners take advantage as demand soars for cassiterite, the tin ore that is vital to the green transition

Women defy Taliban’s strict beauty laws at secret salons

Divine spark • The school reviving endangered sacred arts

Hidden figures • Some of the earliest calculations that helped develop the discipline of maths were done by women and non-western theoreticians whose work is now given its due in a new book

Can Harris burnish her presidential hopes in the rust belt?

Cooling off? • Indications of recession may play into Trump’s hands

THE ART RESOURCES • When Russia invaded, a historian in Kyiv saw that Ukraine’s art heritage was in danger. So he set out to save as much of it as he could

Rise up! • Gabriela Rodriguez was fired from her job as a cleaner for eating a tuna sandwich. Now she and others like her are fighting back

Catherine Bennett • Democrats are hitting a nerve with their ‘weird Trump’ insults

Viv Groskop • Magic numbers: I miss the days of hanging on the home phone

Jane Martinson • The Huw Edwards scandal shows the BBC still has lessons to learn

The GuardianView • Seine’s restoration points the way to a brighter future for urban waterways

Opinion Letters

Human shields • From Tupac Shakur to Nipsey Hussle, murder is not uncommon in the US rap scene. But who are the men tasked with keeping artists safe?

The wait is over! West End stages Godot again • Samuel Beckett’s opus is back, starring Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati. Will its tragicomedy match our cultural moment?

Travels with surrealism • Like the movement itself, a show that started in Brussels is going to Paris and then heading to Spain and Germany before crossing to North America

Reviews

Triumph of populism • A brilliant account of what India has become under Narendra Modi, drawn from the experiences of ordinary people

Period desire • A study mixes crit and novelistic immediacy to show how sexuality informed the work of four canonical American writers

Maid of sterner stuff • An irreverent heroine brings Tudor England...