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 Canada

Another British PM, Brazil holds its breath and Cop27 masquerade

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

SCIENCE ANDENVIRONMENT

CONSERVATIVES

Nouveau Rishi • The former chancellor looked finished when he lost to Liz Truss, but now Rishi Sunak is Britain’s third prime minister in two months. Can a man twice as rich as the king lead the country through a cost of living crisis?

Diversity Multicultural milestone as UK has its first PM of colour • Sunak also becomes the first Hindu to lead the country in a symbolic moment for ethnic minority representation

A busted flush Truss discredited high-octane, freemarket economics, perhaps for ever

Spotlight

Terrif ied villagers f lee as the battle for Kherson rages on

Igor Girkin Hopes MH17 suspect may be captured in f ighting

Football celebration puts IRA chant in the spotlight

Netanyahu plots path away from scandal and back to top

Stand off Election divides voters – and gangsters

Social media f irms ‘are undermining democracy’

Ring of power Ruthless Xi settles in for another five years

Relief and unease as two years of isolation f inally end

‘We have waged war on nature, it is striking back’ • Heavy rain and rising waters continue to take a deadly toll in countries including Nigeria, Thailand and Vietnam

‘I wouldn’t call it a subculture, it’s everyone’ • Mia Landsem, whose ex spread an intimate photo of her online, is working to help others and end image-based abuse

Can period tracking help athletes win? • For many sportswomen, fluctuating hormones can be the difference between winning a medal and going home empty-handed, but researchers and companies hope to turn monthly woes into record-breaking heights

Open House? Republicans plan to sink key Biden legislation

Despite turmoil, star ballerina strikes note of optimism

The truth behind the Cop27 masquerade • Sisi’s Egypt is making a big show ahead of the summit. Meanwhile it is torturing activists and banning research. The global community should not play along

‘I struggle with the so-called free world compared with life in prison’ • When Chelsea Manning leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents, everyone thought they knew why. They were wrong

Opinion

Xi’s vision of greater isolation will make his country poorer Rana Mitter

Foreign intervention has hollowed out the state and led to disaster Pooja Bhatia

Putin’s hidden hybrid war is designed to break Europe’s heart Simon Tisdall

Tigray’s civilians are in grave peril as a forgotten war rages in Ethiopia

Letters

Confessions of a rock star • Bono on the birth of U2, that iTunes album, and the Live Aid show:’There’s only one thing I can see when I watch it: the mullet’

The mystery of Marissa Marcel • A complex recreation of Hollywood glamour and sleaze leads players to discover the fate of a missing movie star

Reviews

Fairground follies • George Saunders’ absurdly funny and subervsive collection of short stories investigates the prisons we make for ourselves

Il Duce’s daughter • This empathic and nuanced biography of Mussolini’s favourite child casts her as both a villain and a wounded, fragile soul

Growing the pie • This quirky, sometimes clunky, feast of recipes and economic insights feels a little worthy but is easy to digest

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