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 India

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

10 TRUTH TO POWER • Many fear that an end to factchecking – under political pressure from Trump – on Meta’s US social media platforms could lead to a wasteland of misinformation with profound consequences for public discourse

Testing grounds • How Facebook has been used to fuel violence in the global south

Turning the tide • Trump, Zuckerberg and Musk’s assault on the truth

Spotlight ‘There’s literally nothing’ • Los Angeles sifts through the ashes

Tipping point • The wildf ires are disasters caused by conditions never seen before

Hottest year on record sends planet past 1.5C for first time

Caretaker government offers a deal to Assad’s ex-personnel

Miracle at sea • Dramatic rescue of woman who gave birth in a dinghy

Politicians’ speeches banned at Auschwitz ceremony • Memorial’s director says he wants anniversary event to focus on the last survivors of the Nazi concentration camp

Man leaves €10m to town he never saw

Streeting warns of violence over grooming gang claims • Health secretary highlights New Zealand mosque killings and rejects Elon Musk’s call for inquiry into child abuse

Shaky ground • Chancellor’s economic recovery plan left teetering

How the Taliban forced a teenager to marry her employer • ‘ Morality police’ arrested Samira – then made the 19-year-old wed in a hurried ceremony that was followed by family ostracism

Drawing a line? • The dignity of women must be worth more than game of cricket

Medics fear the impact of Milei’s chainsaw budget cuts

Word search • Activists fight to save endangered languages

Why is Trump looking to annex Greenland? • The US president-elect has refused to rule out force to take over a territory with plentiful supplies of oil, gas and critical minerals

Threats over Panama Canal reopen old wounds

Who is the rightwing firebrand tipped to be future PM?

Out of tune • The cartel musical that has outraged a country

‘It’s a long process, mourning someone who’s alive’ • As the daughter of Dominique and Gisèle Pelicot, Caroline Darian is coming to terms with being the child of both victim and perpetrator in the biggest rape trial in French history

The deadliest beings on the planet • Microscopic bacteriophages are everywhere – it’s estimated that they can infect and destroy between 20% and 40% of all microbes every day. With antimicrobial resistance on the rise, some scientists believe phages can help in the fight against superbugs

Nesrine Malik • Two years of war and genocide will have global consequence

Lucy Jones • Look at the underside of a log, and you’ll find my new obsession

Kenan Malik • The right is trying to rewrite history with its rhetoric on rape gangs

The GuardianView • Magnus Carlsen’s power play: how star chess player is checking ruling body in style

Opinion Letters

By a thread • Colombian artist Doris Salcedo transforms collective grief into art, confronting the scars of war and displacement with delicate yet powerful creations

The beat goes on, but the shift gets harder • From Rat Scabies of the Damned to Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols, how do punk and rock drummers handle furious sets now they are in their 70s?

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