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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Editor’s Note

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

United Kingdom

Eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Threats turn to talks • Iran’s foreign minister seeks negotiations as Trump warns ‘bad things would happen’ if no solution is agreed

Transparent identification Calls grow for inquiry into protest deaths • Pressure mounts after government says it will publish names of people killed during recent unrest

Attack options • US has firepower in place – but what would it actually achieve?

‘It’s not just surviving’ • Life goes on in cellars of frontline city

‘Keep dreaming’ • Could Europe really defend itself without the United States?

Eyewitness Australia

Musk, Mandelson and ‘The Duke’ • What we learned from latest release of the Epstein files

‘I miss you’: new Epstein emails seal bleak fate for Mandelson • The latest revelations may mean former ambassador has finally encountered a scandal he is unable to outrun

China calling • After the ice age, the thaw – but what dangers lie beneath?

Running wild Homes without humans • Fifteen years after quake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, boars, raccoons and bears roam the streets of Fukushima. But what will happen to this haven if people come back?

Feeling the heat: small towns at risk of burning • As the temperatures break records in the dry, flat Mallee region, concerned residents take refuge in air-conditioned rooms

EXPLAINER • What happens to the human body in 49C heat?

Cockfights continue in face of ban with claims of ‘tradition’

Le scoop! • Presidential award for dedicated paper seller

Don’t swallow it whole Google’s threat to health • Experts warn that the ‘confident authority’ of search giant’s AI Overviews can give completely wrong medical advice that could seriously endanger users

Trump’s post-truth agenda hit as ICE lies fail to land

Havana on the brink as US turns up the pressure over fuel

Were they pushed? • Why are hundreds of Turkish women falling from high buildings to their deaths every year?

PARADISE LOST? • Newton Aycliffe was meant to be a model town for a fairer postwar Britain. But unaf fordable rents on a high street amounting to 0.12% of its property tycoon owner’s holdings have made it a symbol of decline – and a warning for Labour

Simon Tisdall • Starmer barely noticed China is leading the charge to Armaggedon

Jonathan Liew • Art, music, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft

Karin Kaneko • Young voters are drawn to our conservative PM. What’s her appeal?

The GuardianView • EU response to Washington bullying is to build bridges with India and Vietnam

Opinion Letters

Miles ahead • The architect of the bestselling jazz album of all time, 1959’s Kind of Blue, trumpeter Miles Davis is a towering figure in the history of the genre. With 2026 marking the centenary of Davis’s birth, we asked several of his surviving collaborators to select his greatest recordings and discuss his enduring influence

What does Melania the film tell us of Mrs Trump? • Brett Ratner’s $40m film, which had a ‘blackcarpet’ premiere at the Kennedy Center, has been marketed with the gusto of a Hollywood blockbuster

Could it be magic? • As his latest series, Small Prophets, lands, Mackenzie Crook says he’s...