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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SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Beyond all recognition • This week’s UN meeting in New York was overshadowed by many of Israel’s allies – including the UK, Australia and Canada – recognising the state of Palestine. But in the West Bank, many feel it is time for action rather than symbolism

Rallying support • Why are more countries recognising statehood and what does it mean?

‘An absurdity’ • In Israel, international recognitions of Palestinian state draw a bitter response

TIMELINE • Britain’s fraught role in the long fight for self-rule

Gesture politics • ‘Recognition’ is a fine word. But only action will end this horror

Right rhetoric • Is free speech still sacred in the US?

Emotions raw as memorial mixes rally and revival

Adrift at sea • Migrant who swam from Morocco to Europe

The small boat detainees who await return to France

Shadow war • How hits by assassins have been normalised

Buzz kill • The Italian island that banned honeybees

Young and angry • Gen Z takes on south Asia’s elites

Bittersweet reflections on 50 years of self-rule

The ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for students

Sweet spot • Can a soda tax deliver real health benef its?

Un-dead as a dodo • Could an extinct species really be brought back to life?

Mamdani’s big mayoral obstacle: New York’s rich elites

Inside the narco-subs that ferry drugs across the Atlantic

THE AI PIONEER WHO SWITCHED SIDES • IN 2020, AFTER SPENDING HALF HIS LIFE IN THE US, SONG-CHUN ZHU TOOK A ONE-WAY TICKET TO CHINA. NOW HE MAY HOLD THE KEY TO WHO WINS THE GLOBAL AI RACE

INSIDE SOUTH KOREA’S TOXIC GENDER WAR • Misogyny has become rife in South Korea’s hypermodern society, with feminism blamed for young men’s struggles and digital hatred spilling over into real-world violence

Keith Magee • In times of hate, empathy is the glue that binds people together

Kirsty Major • A warning from my home town: there are no safe Labour seats

Simon Jenkins • Trump’s visit exposed the reality of a country that’s stuck in the past

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Opinion Letters

Take the cake • As the planet’s ruling class embraces ostentatious displays of wealth, an exhibition about Marie Antoinette has opened in London. Why is she back in vogue?

REVIEW • ‘Meet the real Marie Antoinette’

Past masters • The men who made history buf fs of us all

Robert Redford 1936–2025 • The incandescently handsome star began as a blond bombshell, then turned into an assured director and unlikely keeper of the indie flame

Reviews

Can we adapt to modern life? • The concept of evolutionary mismatch explains why we find these times challenging

Swan song • The author ref lects on how profoundly the China she portrayed 30 years ago has changed

Enemy from within • A compelling story of how a group of elite friends was betrayed in Nazi Germany

Injustice addressed • Making reparations for slavery is a live topic – and it is as much about power as money

TOM GAULD

It’s a sudden role reversal with all three kids home

STEPHEN COLLINS

Hot take: nothing is safe from my obsession with crispy...