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 Turkey

A week in the life of the world

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Global report United Kingdom

‘THE BIG BATTLE IS COMING’ • After nearly a year of war, Russia and Ukraine both need a breakthrough – but a major offensive will be loaded with risk, whoever strikes first

ZAPORIZHZHIA

ANALYSIS GERMANY • On manoeuvres Don’t be fooled: Berlin’s U-turn on sending tanks is a reluctant one

UNITED STATES • Demands to ‘demolish and rebuild’ police as city mourns

Fatal beating fuels calls for wide-ranging reforms

UNITED KINGDOM • Nadhim Zahawi’s extraordinary rise and fall

Sunak’s deficit Tax scandal stops PM from changing the conversation

Eyewitness Australia

Grief and anger at site of deadly synagogue attack • Calls for reprisals after worst attack by a Palestinian against Israelis since 2008, during spiralling week of bloodshed

Swift punitive steps pledged against Palestinians

ANALYSIS JAPAN • Baby blues PM’s answer to birthrate crisis is stuck in the same old loop

AUSTRALIA • ‘A reckoning’ Debate over colonisation dominates national day

NIGERIA • Third man Young voters swell hope for Obi’s shock bid

Beware the Crocodile, opposition leader urges • Nelson Chamisa urges world to keep ‘eyes on’ President Mnangagwa amid fears of repression in run-up to poll

Lithium sparks a battle for power • The state wants to exploit its lucrative reserves, a key component in producing car batteries – but at what price?

Electric shock US car culture must change, warns report

ENERGY

UNITED STATES • Trump says he’s angry – but can the trick work a second time?

PANAMA • How Colón became a hub for contraband and cocaine

THE HOTDOG SELLER WHO ROSE TO THE TOP OF PUTIN’S WAR MACHINE • After nearly a decade in prison, the ascent of the Wagner group founder YEVGENY PRIGOZHIN was remarkable. But where does the ceiling of his ambition lie?

GREEN GOLD • Ibogaine, a powerful psychedelic derived from a Gabonese plant, can treat addiction. A race is on to cash in – but who has a right to profit from Indigenous knowledge?

UNITED KINGDOM • The old boys’ club has evolved into ‘the network’ of rich f inanciers

CULTURE • The debate about Tár masks how little it says about the joy of art

HEALTH • We are playing Covid roulette. Clean air for everyone is essential

Environmental defenders and journalists face biggest danger in Latin America

WRITE TOUS

Small comforts • He is much loved for his daf fy humour, but the poet and children’s author’s new memoir is an arrestingly honest account of how he coped with the death of his son

A survivor’s manual to loss, grief and how to express our troubles

The sound of the underground • New Zealand’s short-lived counterculture scene threw off conservative constraints and laid foundations for the nation’s modern identity

Reviews

POLITICS • The free way Should US foreign policy demand liberal policy outcomes as well as elections, or is it hiding behind its ‘democratic dilemma’?

FICTION • Crossing continents This magnificent globe-trotting, century-spanning novel mingles fact with the fabulous and offers abundant pleasures

PHILOSOPHY • The glee club A timely guide to Epicurus, the Greek philosopher who sought happiness in a...