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.

Qatar’s highly political football, the challenge of 8bn people – and is Donald Trump’s grip loosening?

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Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

ECONOMY

QATAR • The world’s biggest football tournament was meant to be a moment of triumph for the tiny emirate, but instead it sparked a chorus of global criticism. Has Qatar already lost at geopolitical football before a kick has been taken?

David Squires on … • A World Cup migrant worker and whistleblower’s story

OPINION FOOTBALL • Like it or not, the World Cup is happening – and we might even enjoy some of it

Spotlight • Kherson surveys its Russian ruins

INDIA • North-south divide to deepen as population booms

Asia

INDIA-CHINA • People power Why overtaking China is more than symbolic for India

Zelenskiy accuses Russia of war crimes in Kherson • After elation in the liberated city, residents left without power or water assess the toll of eight months of occupation

Pulling out Putin realises that retreat is better than eventual defeat

Shocking scale of pupils’ hunger is revealed • Children arriving at school with mouldy bread, or even nothing, as 100,000 are frozen out of free school meals

UNITED KINGDOM • Languages, art and drama face axe in state schools

What’s new copycat? • AI image-makers can generate pictures in moments. Some creatives fear for commercial art’s future but others are sceptical of the hype

BENIN • Data figures How a digital project is reuniting lost bronzes

LEBANON • The border village that’s greeting its first visitors for 22 years

‘Life is hard’ How peace has failed Farc female ex-fighters • The 2016 ceasefire was meant to reintegrate civil war rebels, but many feel condemned to lives of poverty and danger

Don v Ron Is Trump’s grip on the Republicans weakening? • After a lacklustre show in the midterms, calls are growing for DeSantis to be the GOP’s presidential pick in 2024

How ruling against Roe helped push back a GOP ‘red wave’

NUCLEAR WEAPONS • Up in arms The new generation trying to ban the bomb

How to move a country • In Fiji, the climate crisis means dozens of villages could soon be under water. Relocating so many communities is an epic undertaking. But now there is a plan – and the world is watching

Home and away • Dad’s from Jamaica, Mum’s from Costa Rica and you live in the UK. So which football team do you support in Qatar? Young people with roots in World Cup nations show off their countries’ new kits and talk about being the only one at school cheering for Canada, Cameroon or Brazil

Opinion • GOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN Iranians will fight to the end

NORTH KOREA • Covid has left Pyongyang even more scarily isolated than ever

IRAN • We won’t rest until the cruel regime is deposed and our country is free

CLIMATE CRISIS • The target of 1.5C is unattainable. We need to stop hiding behind it

Silicon valley’s big beasts are now facing some serious shrinkage • Founded 1821 Independently owned by the Scott Trust\

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Letters

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