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

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SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Over and over • While evaluation of previous US conflicts in the Middle East reveals many similarities, the war against Iran may prove to be the most dangerous and consequential yet

Inflation shock • Why the Iran war could wreck global economic recovery

Mojtaba Khamenei • New leader is a supreme insider – but also a mystery

‘Operation epic failure’ • Fears grow of further crackdown on dissent

Circumstances and consequences Why Israel and US attacked and what may come next

Internet blackout puts even more lives at risk

‘A very dangerous person’ Dismay as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of war

Up in smoke • Look to the Gulf states to see how old Middle Eastern certainties are evaporating

Kyiv rushes to adapt as US focus moves to Middle East

Taking its toll War losses mount in rural regions • Residents of a remote village say dozens have left to fight in Ukraine, leaving behind grieving families and labour shortages

A daughter in waiting? The mystery of Kim’s successor

Walks of life • New hiking routes blaze a trail for conservation

Myth of Baba Vanga: mystic’s ‘prophecies’ fuel propaganda • Many of 20th century seer’s predictions were never recorded, yet her name now bolsters conspiracy theories and geopolitical narratives

Why the jury is still out on teen social media ban

The teen sensation shattering athletics records

Rite on time • Spring ritual that brings a town together

‘One of the last standing’ Is the passion for taxonomy dying out? • Art Borkent has spent much of his life documenting endangered species. Only recently did it occur to him that he may have become one himself

After Nasa’s surprise, private firms still aim for the moon

She’s fired! • Noem learns that everyone is expendable in Trump world

‘Any other child would have died’ • When Nada Itrab was nine, she was abducted in Spain, flown to Bolivia, forced to marry, and put to work in coca fields. Her rescuers still ask how she survived

The inside outsider • Anthony Scaramucci lasted just 11 days as White House communications director before being fired. The financier and broadcaster reflects on his working-class upbringing, rise on Wall Street – and how he became one of Trump’s fiercest critics

Anonymous • ‘Don’t die’: the two words that sum up our lives in Tehran right now

Rutger Bregman • Quit ChatGPT – your subscription bankrolls authoritarianism

Simon Tisdall • The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – the UK’s now is Trump

The GuardianView • The Iran conflict shows the paradigm shift to AI in battle has already begun

Opinion Letters

Like a star • Corinne Bailey Rae on the sudden loss of her first husband, her return to music and the harsh reality of fame as a woman in the 00s

Sing out Mozart with meatballs in a suburban Ikea store • In an attempt to attract new audiences and save money, opera companies are putting performances on in the unlikeliest of places. It often works

Beyond barriers • A new online exhibition challenges the art world’s claims of inclusion and foregrounds disabled creatives’ experiences of access, exclusion and joy

Reviews

How can we protect our environment? • Well-intentioned laws...