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

Hot topics at Cop27, Lula’s triumph and midterm fears in US

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

IMMIGRATION

Too hot to handle? • The effects of global heating could soon reach a tipping point, but there are fears the summit in Egypt will get bogged down in recriminations as the damage accelerates

What is loss and damage?

Short change? Activists are divided over the value of direct action • Disruptive tactics have gained huge global coverage – but are they alienating the people that they most need to reach?

Spotlight

Lula vows to protect the Amazon after era of destruction

Lula’s to-do list Poverty, housing and the Amazon are at the top

Anger grows over deadly Halloween crowd crush

Into darkness Russian assault on power grid is the strategy of nihilism

The chef putting his country’s cuisine back on the map

I had to fight for Bosnia. That’s how I know Ukrainians can win • A Bosnian poet reflects on the war in his homeland 30 years ago and its lessons for those now under siege from Putin

‘Apocalyptic’ Journeys from hell on west coast rail service

End of the road for the bestselling Ford Fiesta

Doors are opened to Franco exiles’ descendants

Families fight for answers in E coli case • Nestlé faces €250m civil suit after two children died and dozens affected by infection linked to factory-made pizza

‘Memory of the people’ Art lost in conf licts on show again

Costa del Assad? Syria tries to lure tourists back

Twitter – heaven or hellscape? • Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has finally won control of the media’s favourite online platform. Will he press on with his free-speech agenda?

Why Musk’s deal may signal a global recession

‘Despair not an option’ Obama fires up anxious Democrats

Kanye West’s empire in ruins after antisemitic outbursts

West Africa’s future MEGALOPOLIS • The stretch of coast between Abidjan in Ivory Coast and Lagos in Nigeria is on course to become the largest continuously populated zone on the planet. But a lot needs to change to help it flourish

‘When someone dies prematurely, you’re left careering in a different direction’ • They were the golden couple of British acting, but Helen McCrory’s death last year left Dami an Lewis shattered. Now he is putting the pieces of himself back together – and finding a new creative energy in music

Openion

Thanks to Brexit, Northern Ireland faces another pointless election Fintan O’Toole

Wavering over support for Kyiv, US Congress plays Putin’s game Steven Pifer

The BBC marks scenes from our lives – aren’t we lucky to have it? Ian Jack

Global sports events should not be used to launder host nations’ reputations

Letters

Worry head • David Shrigley may have swapped the city for the tranquillity of the countryside, but his art remains as tense and restless as ever

Pandemic street preachers • Dry Cleaning are the band everyone seemed to discover in lockdown. The London four-piece discuss their second album and poetic brand of post-punk

Reviews

Secret agent man • An extraordinary collection of John Le Carré’s letters reveals the spy novelist’s loves and laments, and his devotion to the craft

Into the abyss • A salvage diver plumbs mysterious depths in Cormac McCarthy’s glorious sunset song of a novel

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