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

Ball of confusion • US keeps the world guessing with latest letters of intent

Transatlantic relations • EU trade chief warns against 30% levies

Staying together • With the world in crisis, putting up walls won’t help us

Olmert gives warning over ‘ethnic cleansing’ plan for Gaza

New leverage • Hamas seeks to capture an Israeli soldier dead or alive

Forgotten refugees stalked by poverty and hunger

Trump seals Nato arms deal for Kyiv as he loses faith in Putin

EU to assess legality of UK-France migrant deal

Dawn wait The final leg of risky journey • On the French coast there is danger, profound squalor and a human spirit that overpowers the politics

Eyewitness Senegal

‘It was filthy and it stank’ Europe’s dirtiest river is brought back to life • A $6.4bn project has transformed the Emscher from ‘the sewer of the Ruhr’ to a place where nature is starting to flourish

Silent history The fight to ensure Srebrenica killings are not forgotten • Three decades on, as Serb leaders deny that a genocide happened, the remains of thousands of dead continue to be identified and buried

Milei’s tough austerity measures put squeeze on scientists

Scene setter • Connecting modern theatre to older people

A revolution in making babies Sperm and eggs grown in lab ‘a few years away’ • Quest to create viable human sex cells in the laboratory is progressing rapidly, heralding huge ethical implications for reproduction

Musk’s new America party fails to convince the experts

Texas way • Ideology and big oil leave state in eye of the storm

I stepped into a story that would take over my life • It’s 20 years since Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by police at a tube station after being mistaken for a terrorist in the aftermath of the London bombings. At a vigil a few days later, Yasmin Khan found herself standing beside his friend. This is what happened next

FARMING ON THE FRONTLINE • Agriculture is woven into Ukrainian culture – but daily attacks, a loss of workers and land contamination are tearing the industry apart.

Phillip Inman • World must be more wary than ever of China’s growing economic power

Emma Brockes • Texas flood deaths shocked a nation where camp is a rite of passage

Andy Beckett • Why is the party of the workers afraid to admit we must tax the rich?

The GuardianView • The Salt Path scandal shows that credibility in publishing is crucial

Opinion Letters

Lofty ambitions • Anna Lapwood is the hottest property in classical music, who can switch from Bach to Bob Dylan. Will her epic all-night Prom blow the Albert Hall roof off?

A trip to remember Arles goes all Latin American • This year’s Les Rencontres d’Arles showcases stunning photography, from birthday joy in the Brazilian favelas to powerful hallucinogenic ayahuasca visions in Peru

Reviews

Are an angry few ruining the web? • Online platforms like to amplify extreme voices – but that’s not what most people want

Intelligence test • An impressive glimpse into the secretive CIA in a time of global turmoil deserves a Pulitzer

Mother love • A daughter is brought up isolated from the world in this tender, captivating debut novel

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