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

Global report • United Kingdom

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SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Reversal of fortune • Is it Mark Carney’s election to lose? Earlier in the year, the Liberal party was in the doldrums, then Donald Trump made a move on Canadian sovereignty

Face off • What is likely to happen at the polls?

False witness • Huge rise in fake political content on social media as election nears

A simple goodbye for a humble pontiff for the people

The outsider • His focus was on justice but he failed to heal deep divisions

Total siege • Aid blockade creates crisis ‘unmatched in severity’

Talks progress as Moscow gains key role in nuclear deal

Eyewitness Antarctica

Miliband in attack on Farage and Tories’ net zero ‘lies’

‘A sigh of relief’ • Ruling allows UK politicians to dodge tricky questions

Cowboys get the blues over beef • Once hailed as frontier heroes, ranchers are now at odds with climate and culture change

Plenty of horns The settlements where rhinoceros roam the streets • In one Nepali village, the resident rhinos are a conservation success story and attract thousands of visitors – but attacks on humans are on the rise

Hard copy • Will Dutton’s admiration for Trump backfire?

Noise ban pulls plug on Leicester Square’s street artists

Allergen alert Factors behind our increasingly deadly hay fever seasons • Higher temperatures, pollution and invasive species are being linked to more severe pollen seasons around the world – though the effects are complex and the causes not yet fully understood

Are we alone? • Discovery on planet K2-18b brings alien life closer to reality

Harvard v Trump is latest front in right’s war on academia

“I AM NOT WHO YOU THINK I AM” • How a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son

Can I kick it? • Fancy joining the growing movement to boycott American goods? Jeremy Ettinghausen finds it’s much harder than you think as he sets out to banish the US from his life

Kenan Malik • Trump’s attack on Harvard won’t foster more diversity of debate

Emma Brockes • Smell the coffee: why my flat white is a tiny hit of joy in a dark world

Susanna Rustin • Welcome clarity on the contested issue of women’s rights

The Guardian View • Pope Francis, a radical who tried to be a progressive influence and force for good

Opinion Letters

Turner: simply the best? • The revered painter conjured scenes of gods and legends, but his work came to represent the complex soul of Britain like no other artist

Music can heal us – but it doesn’t need to have a purpose • A string of books and a new radio station beg the question: can’t we just listen to music for music’s sake?

Super troupers! • How do stars of long-running hits keep the pizzazz pumping? Theatre’s epic endurance performers reveal how they keep the magic alive

Reviews

Identity crisis • An actor’s story becomes an exercise in the uncanny and a radical deconstruction of relationships and the social roles we play

A linguistic feast • The author traces her family history through her quest to keep Judaeo-Arabic words, food and culture alive

BOOKS OF THE MONTH • A roundup of the best recent crime and thrillers

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