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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Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Trump’s new cold front • In Greenland’s capital, residents talk of fear without preparation as the threat of a US invasion grows

Nato’s last dance? • With western alliance in the balance, leaders tread a f ine line

Routes and resources • Melting ice brings geopolitical jostling for Arctic assets

Failed flattery • EU’s strategy of appeasement shattered by Trump’s threats

The man who trusted America, and paid with his life

Shah’s son stakes his claim to lead the country

Conservatives • Is Badenoch the winner after Jenrick’s Reform switch?

Bucha fights Russia’s efforts to weaponise winter

Is Vance Trump’s heir apparent? • Vice-president has emerged as key defender of the Maga flame – and is backed by big tech. He is a 2028 candidate in all but name

Why have so many dugongs gone missing? • The Andaman coast was one of very few places in the world with a viable population of the mammals. Now half have gone

Extinction rebellion Remarkable rise of a language in danger • Concentrated among the people living in the remote Daliwe valley, siPhuthi has gained new life thanks to intrepid linguists and activists

Historic Kinshasa market given a makeover

The team reinventing abortion advice for TikTok age

A Raj relic? • End of the line for the ‘princely jacket’

‘A bombshell’ Are our bodies really full of microplastics? • Doubts over whether plastic particles have infiltrated human tissue have grown, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’

Opposition in limbo as democracy remains a distant goal

Gilt trips • Why central banks are rushing back to gold

THIS MAN REVEALED THE INNERMOST THOUGHTS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE • WHO WAS THE ‘UNTOUCHABLE HACKER GOD’?

Can Cuba survive? • Disillusioned with the revolution after 68 years of US sanctions and a shattered economy, one in four Cubans have left the country in the past four years. Now it seems the Trump administration has the regime in its sights – and its future is unclear

Jonathan Freedland • The world must not look away as the people of Iran cry out for help

Jodi Wilson • Enough’s enough: we are overwhelmed with having too much stuff

Martin Kettle • The world of today looks bad, but we’ve been here before and got through it

The GuardianView • The dangerous pattern of Labour policy U-turns is corroding confidence

Opinion Letters

Talk of the town • Michael Sheen on building a new Welsh National Theatre company, as its first show reimagines an American classic in his homeland

Every cent you take? Rifts cloud Police hit • Sting and his former bandmates have been in court over a royalties dispute – the latest chapter in the song’s fractious story

Parallel lives • Piet Mondrian found fame with his grid-like paintings. But a reappraisal of little-known British artist Marlow Moss repositions her influence on his work

Reviews

Can we reclaim our attention? • It’s time to put down the screens and focus on big tech’s fracking of our mental resources

On the couch • A bold attempt to convince sceptics that neuroscience has proved Freud was right

Final reckoning • Ghosts confront a dying oil tycoon’s destructive legacy. Will he repent?

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