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

A plea for outside help, Wagner’s warning and Andrew Tate exposed

Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

High number of job adverts underlines pressure on staff

Eyewitness

HORROR UPON HORROR • As cemeteries fill up and families wait for news, those who fled the bombardment from the air in Syria’s civil war relive the grim ritual of digging through rubble

Developers cut corners rather than heed costly guidance

Quake causes subsidence

THE FLOW OF AID IS TAINTED BY POLITICAL SQUABBLES

Two more years of war warns head of Wagner group

The convict soldiers go back home

Secret summit raises Brexit’s lack of success • Brexiters and remainers from both sides of the political divide met for ‘private discussion’ with diplomats and business leaders

Research left with massive funding gap

Route to growth

Female readers find solace and feminism in Sally Rooney

The fallibility of intelligent chatbots

The editor who defends the oppressed

Pink river dolphins bring peace and tourists • Rare Amazon boto is a focus for job creation, conservation and reconciliation after the country’s 50-year civil war

Invasive cactus takes root above the snowline

Mineral-rich town makes way for the march of progress

All eyes on crucial test for African democracy • Upcoming election is a chance for the continent’s most populous nation to reaffirm faith in elected governments

Rights abuses ‘drive people towards extremism’

Out of whack • Pain and disability arising from poor posture are rife. Is the cure as simple as straightening up?

10 tips to improve your posture

Polls don’t bode well for Biden despite his triumphs

The joy of being courtside as LeBron James becomes No 1

Smoke and mirrors • Andrew Tate achieved global notoriety and, he claims, vast riches by peddling his businesses and his brand of violent misogyny to millions on social media. But is the former kickboxer’s life of fast cars and luxury a facade? Paul Kenyon follows the trail in Bucharest

‘The dead leave empty spaces’ • A year after the death of his beloved mother, the artist and writer Osman Yousefzada looks back on her zest for life and the comfort of community rituals

Zelinskiy needs the west to fully grasp Putin’s game of patience

Mansplaining is no joke. It warps women’s lives in serious ways

My ancestors enslaved Africans. Britain must join me in apologising

Lebanon’s dire plight is exacerbated by the inertia of those sitting at the top

Letters

A WEEK IN VENN DIAGRAMS

Peak perspective • Globe-trotting artist Peter Doig is on the brink of a new frontier, with a show that puts his work alongside venerated modern masters

Burt Bacharach 1928-2023 • The composer leaves a long list of complex and distinctive melodies, interpreted by musicians of all stripes. Maybe you are humming one now?

Forever young • Actors like Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford are getting digital facelifts on film, but industry voices worry about where the AI technology might lead

Reviews

Family circle • Having written about his parents, Blake Morrison turns to his sisters, their tragic deaths and a destructive secret

Paradise past • Poverty and the legacy of enslavement are tempered with a magic realist sensibility in this dreamlike, observational tale

State actor...