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 France

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

High stakes • Trump or Harris? The coming US presidential election is on a knife-edge. And given the fragile global picture of conflicts and alliances, the consequences for the world have arguably never been greater

Fine margins • It’s tight – but should the Democrats be panicking?

In their hands • Seven battleground states that will decide the presidency

Expats assemble! • American voters overseas have long been ignored – but maybe not this time

Spotlight • ‘Leave or die’ Airstrikes hollow out a former city of refuge

Trigger point • Shadow war is out in the open and in danger of escalating

Eyewitness Russia

Pelicot trial exposes gulf in societal attitudes towards rape

Despite the UK, leaders agree on reparatory justice talks

A warlord became an unlikely forest protector. Now he is cutting it down • Deforestation in Colombia fell by a third when guerrilla leader Ivan Mordisco violently enforced a ban. Why did he change tack?

Cop16 • Key issues that will measure the success of Colombia’s nature summit

‘Blood alliance’ • How Ukraine war is stoking tensions

Putin’s call to de-dollarise alarms some at Brics talks

Plastic cave made in Spain keeps Amazonian culture alive

New heights • Teen Sherpa’s fight for climbing equality

The great space waste • From chaotic collisions to depletion of the ozone layer, the thousands of satellites in orbit around Earth have the potential to wreak havoc

Washington Post sparks fury over decision not to endorse

Dark times • Blackouts spark fears of wider collapse

Using cutting-edge methods, Alexandra Morton-Hayward is unravelling the mysteries of grey matter – even as hers betrays her The brain collector

CASTLES IN THE AIR • It was meant to be a dream development of mansions in the Turkish hills. But 13 years on, Burj Al Babas is a half-built ghost town, and a microcosm of the scandal-hit construction sector under Erdoğan. Will the buyers ever get to move in?

Opinion Nesrine Malik • We still live in a world where might is right: just look to Israel

Cole Stangler • Marseille is neither a drug-choked hell nor a hipster paradise

Jonathan Freedland • It’s time for Trump’s instincts to be called what they are: fascist

The GuardianView • The world needs a stable, responsible White House – but it doesn’t get a say

Opinion Letters

Culture ‘The war will be remembered through art’ • Poets, artists, playwrights and musicians are fighting and dying in Ukraine, and their work is capturing the horror and emotion of the conflict.

Power in the darkness • Wolf Hall is back. As the extraordinary epic about King Henry VIII and his vengeful entourage edges to a climax, Timothy Spall reveals what it was like to play Cromwell’s nemesis

Reviews

A beautiful mind • Love and science are brought to life in the brilliant, vivid letters sent (or left unsent) by Oliver Sacks to a panoply of addressees

Tinkered, tailored • A new story about cold war spymaster George Smiley, written by John le Carré’s son, expertly evokes the atmosphere of the originals

Last testament • Alexei Navalny’s brave and brilliant account of his life and dark times is a warning to the world from beyond...