The Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly

4 July 1919 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four...

The Guardian Weekly

4 July 1919 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four...

The Guardian Weekly

4 July 1919 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four...

The Guardian Weekly

4 July 1919 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four...

The Guardian Weekly

4 July 1919 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four...

The Guardian Weekly

4 July 1919 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four...

Vol 213 | Issue № 22

Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four editions: global,...

Vol 213 | Issue № 21

Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four editions: global,...

Vol 213 | Issue № 20

Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four editions: global,...

Vol 213 | Issue № 19

Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four editions: global,...

Pinnacle of success

One of a pair of French mountaineers, Benjamin Védrines and Nicolas Jean, approaches the summit of Jannu East in the first known ascent of the 7,468-metre Himalayan peak. Nepal’s mountains have long drawn climbers, but a growing community is exploring...

Vol 213 | Issue № 17

Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four editions: global,...

Mud larks

Volunteers scale the walls of the Djinguereber mosque in Timbuktu to apply repairs during its annual restoration. Originally built by Emperor Moussa I after his return from Mecca in 1327, the mosque is mainly constructed from mud brick and plastered...

DAY OF DARKNESS

With antisemitism on the rise in Britain, was the Manchester attack inevitable?

Scrum of joy

England players continue celebrations on the pitch at Twickenham long after the whistle of their 33-13 victory over Canada in the Women’s Rugby World Cup final last Saturday. With record attendances and viewing figures, the tournament has been hailed...

The Guardian Weekly

4 July 1919 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four...

Vol 213 | Issue № 11

Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four editions: global,...

The Guardian Weekly

Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four editions: global,...

The Guardian Weekly

Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four editions: global,...

The Guardian Weekly

Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The weekly magazine has an international focus and four editions: global,...

Colombia Flowers in the rain

A farmer carries a floral arrangement known as a silleta on his back during a heavy downpour at the traditional Silleteros parade in Medellín’s Flower Festival last Sunday. The annual festival, which began in 1957, has in recent years become an...

On the cover

Qatar has positioned itself as the key player on the chessboard of international relations. From Iran to the United States to Israel and Hamas, everyone goes to this tiny Gulf country to try to resolve seemingly intractable conflicts. But what is...

Customary cheer

Initiates celebrate after undergoing the koma rite of passage in Moletjie, Limpopo province. The traditional practice, which includes circumcision for boys and men, is a key event on the region’s cultural calendar. Girls also take part in separate...

Sinner redeemed

Jannik Sinner holds the trophy aloft after beating Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon men’s final. The world No 1 beat the defending champion 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to become the first Italian to win a Wimbledon singles title. Last month Sinner endured a...

Reclaim the Seine

Swimmers take a dip in the Paris river last weekend following a €1.4bn ($1.6bn) clean-up programme to enable it to be used for public swimming for the first time in more than a century. About 1,000 people a day will be allowed access to three bathing...

Pride and prejudice

Hungary Pride participants cross the Elisabeth Bridge last Sunday in Budapest, where tens of thousands of people heeded a call by the city’s progressive mayor, Gergely Karácsony, to “come calmly and boldly to stand together for freedom, dignity and...

Here comes the sun

Revellers savour the summer solstice sunrise at Stonehenge, near Amesbury in southern England. This year’s solstice at the stone circle, the oldest parts of which date back to around 2900BC, was one of the best-attended for years as 21 June fell on a...

THE TARGETING OF IRAN

Flying colours

Students set off party poppers for good luck in the gaokao, the national university entrance exam, in Changsha, Hunan province. More than 13.3 million students sat the four-day exams, which began last Saturday. Several Chinese tech companies appeared...

True colours

Thousands of people joined the Bangkok Pride parade last weekend, the first held in Thailand after the country legalised same-sex marriage earlier this year. Under the theme ‘Born This Way’, the 3km parade is the highlight of Thailand’s celebration of...

Beast’s burden

A livestock vendor walks with his camel at a livestock market on the outskirts of Karachi. The market, Pakistan’s largest, is busy ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival, which begins on 6 June and involves the killing of a sheep, goat or sometimes a camel,...

High stakes

Last week began with four European leaders standing defiantly in Kyiv with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, issuing an ultimatum to Vladimir Putin: sign a ceasefire or, together with Donald Trump, we will force you to do so, with sanctions and other tough...

DIVINE RIGHTS

Robert Francis Prevost – who has chosen the papal name Leo XIV – may not be the Latin American Jesuit wildcard his predecessor, Pope Francis, was, but his election is similarly historic. In the figure of the 69-year-old former head of the Augustinian...

Russia's new saboteurs

Serhiy was just about to board a coach bound for Germany when Polish security services detained him at the bus station in the city of Wrocław. In his backpack, the officers found firelighter cubes, a juice bottle filled with paraffin, a lighter, two...

The dirtiest race in Olympic history

THE TUNNEL IN WHICH ATHLETES WAIT before they enter a stadium ahead of a major race is “by no means a friendly place to be”, says Lisa Dobriskey – and as a former Team GB athlete who won Commonwealth gold and world championship silver at 1500m, she...

Grow spurt

Every election, the pundits and pedants say the same thing: Canadians don’t vote directly for their prime minister. But on a rural intersection south of Ottawa, residents could be mistaken for thinking otherwise as they prepare for election day on 28...

Trading places

When Donald Trump threatened hreatened a disruptive trade war against ainst the world, it would have been tempting ing for Xi Jinping to do nothing. Instead, Beijing ensured it was ready for the turmoil. moil. Rather than sustaining an economic c hit,...

CRASH COURSE TRUMP’S TARIFF WAR ON THE WORLD

LAST THURSDAY EVENING, towards the end of a long week at a textiles factory on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Thi Dieu and her husband were watching the news. More than 14,000km away, US president Donald Trump was announcing sweeping,...

IS THIS THE END OF TURKISH DEMOCRACY?

WHEN 21-YEAROLD BERKAY GEZGIN left the interior of Istanbul city hall, a squad of police was waiting for him outside. Protests that flooded the streets outside the headquarters of his political hero, detained mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, had begun trickling...

Down to Earth

Nasa support teams get to work after the SpaceX Dragon craft returning Suni Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore to Earth landed off Florida after an epic International Space Station mission. The astronauts landed after more than nine months stuck in...

Ukraine beats a retreat from Kursk

Under constant attack from drones attached to fibre optic cables, the soldiers scrambled in groups of two or three along hidden tracks or through fields, often walking several kilometres to reach Ukrainian territory. The Ukrainian retreat from the...

Arranged to a tea

Preparations for the closing session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The meeting is held simultaneously with the National People’s Congress, collectively known as the Two Sessions,...

Trump, Zelenskyy and a toxic path to peace

As Keir Starmer and his aides discussed their response to last Friday’s White House meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which the Ukrainian president was berated live on camera by the US president and his deputy, JD Vance,...

Data days

Gathering data used to be a fringe pursuit of Silicon Valley nerds. Now we’re all at it, recording everything from menstrual cycles and mobility to toothbrushing and time spent in daylight. Is this just narcissism redesigned for the big tech age? By...

The end of the affair

As European leaders met in Paris on Monday to prepare an answer to their apparent exclusion from the talks about Ukraine’s future, the existential and all-encompassing question of how to influence an unchained US president occupied every European...

The Orbánisation of America

PLUS Jonathan Freedland Malak A Tantesh Peter Beaumont on Trump and Gaza

How DeepSeek disrupted artificial intelligence

At 2.16pm California time on 26 January, the US billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen called it. “DeepSeek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” he posted on X. A Chinese startup, operating since 2023 and helmed by a millennial mathematician, had unveiled a...

• The death of handwriting

Humming away in offices on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon and in the White House is a technology that represents the pragmatism, efficiency and unsentimental nature of American bureaucracy: the autopen. The device stores a person’s signature,...

READY OR NOT

HE IS RISEN. After dodging an assassin’s bullet and the prospect of jail, Donald Trump staged a political resurrection like no other. On Monday, as he returned to power, he embraced the role of a demagogue on a divine mission. Sworn in as the 47th US...

Facing facts Facebook, Trump and the war on truth

Meta is shifting to the right, following the prevailing political winds blowing through the United States. A more partisan era now looms for the social media giant and its corporate leaders, though Mark Zuckerberg himself has few personal politics...

Out of the ashes

Traders pick over the ruins of Kantamanto secondhand clothes market in Accra, which last week was almost reduced to ashes by fire. The market, with more than 30,000 dealers, was a hub of Ghana’s informal economy. About 15m items of used clothing arrive...

Realigned

‘A revisionist state has arrived on the scene to contest the liberal international order, and it is not Russia or China, it is the United States. It is Trump in the Oval Office, the beating heart of the free world. The incoming administration contests...

Outside the box

From India to Venezuela and Senegal to the US, more people voted this year than ever before, with over 80 elections across the world. With rising authoritarianism and citizen-led resistance revealing its vulnerabilities and resilience in the face of...

After Assad

WILLIAM CHRISTOU PETER BEAUMONT AMMAR AZZOUZ SIMON TISDALL ON THE FALL OF SYRIA’S BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP

RIPPING IT UP

LAKauffmanremembers the day hundreds of thousands of women, men and children marched in Washington. “If you’ve never been in a crowd that large, it’s hard to convey how powerful the feeling is of standing together with so many people who share your...

THE HYBRID FRONT

THE UNPRECEDENTED FIRING by Ukrainian forces of British-made long- range Storm Shadow missiles at military targets inside Russia last week means the UK, along with the US, is now viewed by Moscow as a legitimate target for punitive, possibly violent...

The crisis in the Church of England

AS THE FAITHFUL GAVE THANKS to God in England’s 16,500 parish churches last Sunday, beneath the comforting ritual of prayers and hymns ran an undercurrent of shame, anger and dread. The Church of England is facing its biggest crisis in modern times,...

Vital signs

Road signs left outside the Deux-Sèvres prefecture in Niort, western France, that farmers took down in ongoing protests against low food prices and an EU trade deal. The movement is called On marche sur la tête , literally “we walk on the head”, an...

AFTER THE DELUGE

Miguel Aleixandre, a supermarket worker and competitive powerlifter who lives in the small Valencian town of Utiel, was mid-workout last Tuesday morning at his local gym when the staff suddenly announced they were closing up because of the torrential...

THE BALANCE OF POWER

WHEN AMERICANS CHOOSE between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on 5 November, the decision will mark one of the most consequential elections for US foreign policy in generations that could ripple out into conflicts and redraw alliances around the world....

HIDDEN AIMS

On one summer night in Ontario, a Canadian Sikh activist received a panicked call from his wife: police had come to their home and warned her that his life was at risk. Two weeks later and thousands of kilometres away, a gunman in the province of...

HANIF KUREISHI

‘IWASN’T EVEN PISSED,” Hanif Kureishi says, as if somehow that would have made it better. The writer is talking about the accident that left him a tetraplegic. Or, as he likes to call himself with classic Kureishian brutality, a vegetable. Though he’s...

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Jonathan Freedland Raja Shehadeh Bethan McKernan Peter Beaumont Jason Burke Emma Graham-Harrison

7 OCTOBER 2023

On that Friday evening, life went on as usual. Only at 6.29 the next morning, when thousands of rockets launched from Gaza towards Israel across the lightening sky did anyone begin to suspect that this 7 October would be very different. Still, few...

THE LONG SHADOW

The Lebanon-based militant Shia Islamist organisation Hezbollah said it had entered an “open-ended battle of reckoning” with Israel as world powers implored both sides to step back from the brink of all-out war. In a significant escalation of the...