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 China

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

Global report • United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

In the footsteps of the fallen • Three years after the deaths of the British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian activist Bruno Pereira, the Guardian joined the Indigenous peoples continuing their dangerous, often gruelling, work to protect the rainforest

Last trace • The murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

A refusal to be silenced • New projects honour lives and legacies of killed men

‘It’s a trap’ • The story of a mother, killed in seach of food

‘Enemy within’ • Trump’s military trampling of dissent was only a matter of time

LA cleans up and takes stock after weekend of defiance • California leaders condemn ‘authoritarian’ president for sending in troops as protests over immigration raids spread to other cities

Eyewitness Canada

Wilders’ walkout creates uncertainty for voters

World Service • An arm of soft power that UK can barely af ford to lose

‘Smash the gangs’ Securing borders or just a slogan? • The British government is desperate to show it is preventing small boat crossings, but its PR-heavy approach may cause more problems with voters than it solves

STARK WARNING • Farage ‘a tribune for working class’, economic expert says

Chain reaction Is nuclear power back in fashion? • Spain’s recent blackout and AI datacentres’ massive energy needs are leading politicians to reach for the restart button

Income hides inequality at Casablanca’s finance hub

Hooting common • Owls thrive in London’s suburbs

Fortune tellers didn’t see it coming … but AI is muscling in

The ‘evil twin’ of climate crisis Scientists warn about ocean acidification • Researchers call for action on marine life amid fears that falling pH levels and buildup of CO2 in seas are not being taken seriously enough

Countries count cost of Trump’s travel bans and taxes

Never mind becoming the 51st state, could Canada join the EU?

THE KING OF YOUTUBE • His videos are like the crazed imaginings of an 11-year-old boy. But is Jimmy Donaldson (AKA MrBeast) merely clickbait savvy – or an avant garde genius?

SLASH AND BERN • Bernie Sanders is on tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, trying to build a new progressive movement. The senator and two-times Democratic presidential hopeful reveals why he thinks many politicians and institutions in the US are scared to speak up – and what went wrong for Kamala Harris in 2024.

Jonathan Freedland • The Trump-Musk breakup exposes a fault line in the right

Nell Frizzell • Forget luxury escapes: a break is much more fun in a youth hostel

Devi Sridhar • Want to live to 100? It’s not just diet and exercise that will help

The Guardian View • Kyiv fights a 21st-century war against old tactics, but it can’t do it alone

Opinion Letters

Crash therapy • Pop’s most forthright star, Ciara Mary-Anne Thompson – aka CMAT – talks body-shaming, capitalism and the reality of life in Ireland

Don’t call me cute • Small children wreak destruction in Yoshitomo Nara’s paintings, exploding conventions with a rage inspired by natural disaster, the Ramones and the bomb

Reviews

Eight years on, troubled by a city’s grim history • Author and Charlottesville native Deborah Baker revisits the devastating events of...