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

United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Has anything changed? • When the US allowed a UN ceasefire resolution to pass, it marked a shift in Washington’s support for Israel as doubts about the conduct of the war and its legality have grown

‘Excuses have run out’ Thousands call for PM’s removal • Demonstrators join families of hostages in cities across the country and vow to persist until Netanyahu is ousted

Legal challenge • Scale of suffering will make war crimes claims harder to deny

Spotlight • IS affiliates could launch new wave of terror on the west

Games threat • Paris on alert for Olympics attacks

‘New future’ • Opposition sweeps to victory in local polls

Gulag survivors given voice at Venice Biennale

Bridge clear up crucial to national economy

What now for Thames Water as investors turn off the taps?

Funding lesson • Universities fear consequences of clampdown on student visas

Lost habitats True cost of a city built from scratch • Nusantara is billed as a state-of-the-art capital city that will coexist with nature – but not all residents of Borneo’s Balikpapan Bay are happy

Coil scandal The women who were forcibly fitted with IUDs • Victims left traumatised and infertile after birth control devices were inserted without consent by Danish doctors

Danish denial as minister is urged to ‘get on a plane’

How a civil servant won the battle with big tobacco

‘We are finally free’ • Hopes high after poll landslide

Eyes in the sky How drones are helping animal rights campaigners • Inexpensive and easy to use, they are proving invaluable for activists monitoring illegal fishing, hunting and deforestation – as well as keeping tabs on zoos and aquariums

‘Feeble, tired and unfit’ • Biden plays hardball with Trump

No end to agony as gangs shift focus to elite ‘safe’ areas

THE EMPTY PLINTH • In 1760, a pivotal slave revolt began in Jamaica – and now many want its leader made a national hero. But what if this story is bigger than that?

49 DAYS LATER • Liz Truss trashed the economy as Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister. But she is back, launching a new conservative movement and spreading her ideology across the world. You just can’t keep a bad politician down …

Opinion George Monbiot • Bullies rule at every stage of life, but it doesn’t have to be that way

André Spicer • Career ladders may be broken, but a fulfilling job is still within reach

Marina Hyde • Loonsday Clock nears midnight while Tory MPs plot regicide again

The GuardianView • Saudi Arabia as chair of a UN women’s panel is cause for anger but no surprise

Opinion Letters

Culture The devil in the details • In the past nine years, the musician and artist has lost two sons – an experience he explores in a deeply personal new ceramics project. He discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning

A Māori-built environment • A new wave of Indigenous architects are behind a series of stunning buildings embracing tribal identity in Aotearoa New Zealand

Reviews

Impossible choices • A bleak, brilliant moral maze of a novel about ethical dilemmas, ranging from global poverty to the climate crisis

The evolution of AI • A secret history of machine intelligence that is...