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 Venezuela

Remarkable protests, another Cop summit and music in full colour

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

United Kingdom

Eyewitness

Locked and loaded • Rare protests have highlighted intense public frustration over Beijing’s zero-Covid policy, with blank pieces of white paper becoming symbols of dissent. But wherever it leads, few envisage a serious challenge to Xi Jinping’s authority

Testing the limits Behind the paper protests: why people took to the streets

A dangerous moment Dissent is a blow to Xi’s global prestige which he is unlikely to tolerate for long

‘We can get through it’ Kyiv citizens brace for a harsh winter

Power shift Yerevan snub shows Putin losing grip on regional allies

On manoeuvres Wounded Khan takes on the army • The highly popular former prime minister says the military was behind an attempt on his life – but could he still make a pact with the generals?

Khamenei’s niece calls on nations to shun regime

Dark materials

‘My heart is already dead’ Hope meets despair in Calais camps • A year after 27 people died trying to cross the Channel, people are still drawn by the dream of a better life in Britain

Migration hits record high with jump in student levels

Dear daughter? Public debut of Kim’s child sparks rumours over succession

Kiwi make a welcome return to the wilds of Wellington

Gold diggers The fight to protect forests from mining

Search for evidence of lost Amazon civilisation falls flat • Deforestation backed by government damages the environment and obliterates archaeological remains

Horse power The streets echo again to the sound of hooves

Covid leaves labourers with less money and fewer rights

Fly me to the moon • Nasa’s launch of Artemis 1 is the first in a line of successors to Apollo in the 70s, reopening the debate on the value of sending humans into space

January 6 report nears – but should Trump be the main focus?

Seeing red Shootings lead to renewed calls for assault weapons ban

Humans versus nature • The story of biodiversity loss is a tale of decline spanning thousands of years. This month, the world will get a chance to change the narrative at Cop15 in Montreal

Six of the best bits of news • Tackling invasive species, saving seeds and building bird boxes are some of the ways biodiversity loss is being stemmed

THEY/THEM… she/her, he/him - the quiet revolution over pronouns • The way we address people is changing, and behind it lies a surprising linguistic, social and political history…

Iran’s heroic people are teaching us a song many take for granted Jonathan Freedland

Who would want a world remade by these failing tech titans? Moya Lothian-McLean

Election ID laws are voter suppression and an attack on the young Polly Toynbee

India’s fading secularism is becoming increasingly evident on the world stage • Founded 1821 Independently owned by the Scott Trust

Letters

A WEEK IN VENN DIAGRAMS

Super sonic • The Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist on turning crowds into choirs, working with Stormzy and ‘creative infinity syndrome’

Biting satire: dining on film • Does cinema have a grudge against haute cuisine? The Menu and Triangle of Sadness follow a lineage of movies expressing unease

This Is What I Mean • Stormzy (#Merky/0207 Def...