Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol211 | Issue№ 7 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian and Observer newspapers in the UK and the Guardian’s digital editions in the

Iran insisted on its right to an “appropriate and deterrent response” against Israel as the White House said it had prepared for what could be significant attacks by Iran or its proxies. The comments came as the US said it had ordered the deployment

The archbishop of Canterbury has warned Christians that they should not be part of any far-right groups, criticising the use of Christian imagery in the recent riots “an offence to our faith”. Writing in the Guardian, Justin Welby condemned the viole

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Last month, protesters took to the streets of Palma, Mallorca, carrying placards daubed with slogans like “ No to mass tourism” and “ Tourism, but not like this”. Although he did not attend, Mallorcan Jaume Fuster, 27, agreed with the protesters’ mes

On his first visit to Venice, Alejandro is unimpressed with the city’s latest bid to control tourism by limiting group sizes and banning loudspeakers. The tour guide’s group, just shy of the new maximum limit of 25, is trudging over a bridge towards

Carolina Proaño has her head to the ground on her family farm on Santa Cruz, one of the four inhabited islands in Galápagos. The biologist, who is checking nests for signs of new eggs or recent visits, has long been trying to save the Galápagos petre

When Kamala Harris and the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, stepped onstage together for the first time last Tuesday, Philadelphia’s Liacouras Center glittered red, white and blue as Beyoncé’s Freedom blared and the crowd pulsed. Walz, plucked from rela

His name was spelled out in bright lights reminiscent of a Broadway show. Donald Trump thanked God for sparing him from an assassin’s bullet. To thousands of devoted fans, the carefully stage-managed Republican national convention felt like the coron

Early last Saturday morning, Louay Nasser decided to perform the dawn prayer in the classroom he and his family are living in at Tabeen school in Gaza City, rather than go across the courtyard to the mosque. That decision may have saved his life. As

On the morning of 7 October last year, reserve Maj Gen Yair Golan decided he could not stay at home in the central town of Rosh Ha’ayin. The scale of Hamas’ attack was still unclear, but he put on his uniform and drove to the home front command headq

Young men in Tikala, South Sulawesi, take part in a unique local harvest thanksgiving ritual known as Sisemba. Performed under the supervision of elders, Sisemba involves neighbouring villagers fighting one another with their feet – which can only be

The relief was palpable in Dhaka. “It feels good that finally we have educated people running our government,” said Zahin Ferdous, a 19-year-old university student, referring to the new interim government led by the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. Fer

Last Tuesday, Oksana and her family could not escape fast enough. Though they did not know it, Ukrainian regular forces had entered Russia for the first time, and Moscow’s military wasted little time in hitting back, bombing their village around 11km

There were teenagers and pensioners. Some with a string of convictions and others with none. There were hardened criminals and baby-faced schoolboys, some with the support of parents and others without. “He’s a pain in the arse,” said one defendant’s

Last Sunday, two police officers were seen examining a police box in London that had been made to look like a tank of piranhas, before taking pictures of it. The previous day, a big cat had appeared briefly, stretching in the morning sun, on a bare a

As the evening sky turns violet, the animals of the Pantanal gather near the water. Capybaras swim in tight formation, roseate spoonbills add smudges of pink to the riverbanks, the rumble of a jaguar pulsates from the forest. This tropical wetland is

At Beijing Jiaotong University’s affiliated elementary school, a boy of six or seven holds a replica handgun. Other students grasp fake assault rifles. They wear imitation flak jackets over their tracksuits, and their heads swim inside artillery helm

Young protesters in Kenya successfully demanded the withdrawal of a bill that would have raised taxes on everything from bread to vegetable oil and sanitary towels. Inspired by their neighbours, Ugandans marched against corruption; Nigerians rallied

It was the opening days of 2022, in the aftermath of a huge volcanic eruption, when Tonga went dark. The underwater eruption – 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima – sent tsunami waves across Tonga’s nearby archipelag

Venezuela’s main opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has accused its strongman president, Nicolás Maduro, of unleashing a horrific “campaign of terror” in an attempt to cling on to power. More than two weeks after Maduro’s widely questioned clai

The arrival of August in the Arctic typically hints that autumn, with its dwindling daylight and cold weather, will soon return. But on a recent afternoon, Sandy Gordon and her four children plunged into the silty waters of Canada’s Mackenzie River,

MY OLDEST FRIEND has the same name as me: Rachel. But I call her Kitty, a variation on her surname. We have been close for more than 40 years. She and I will, I believe, know each other now until one of us finds ourself at the other’s funeral, where

Of course, it’s good that so many of those responsible for a week of far-right violence are facing a swift and severe form of justice – but there’s one extremely rich and powerful suspect who should join them in the dock. If the UK authorities truly

As one of those “ childless cat ladies” Donald Trump’s vice-presidential candidate JD Vance quips about, I can’t say that I haven’t wondered – were I to die at home – how long it would take mine to start eating me. I adore my pair of cornish rexes, V

Something unusual happened to the French far right during the Olympic Games: it went silent. Jordan Bardella, the poster boy of the National Rally (RN) who shared his life between public rallies and TV studios before the Olympic torch rose and lit up

SAM NEILL, 76, is speaking to me via Zoom from Vancouver, where he is filming Untamed, a new Netflix series. We’re here, though, to discuss the new season of The Twelve, a pacy Australian courtroom drama in which Neill plays barrister Brett Colby SC.

Summertime, and the reading is easy. Or at least, it’s supposed to be. Holidays were made for sinking blissfully into a pile of books: for long, hot afternoons swinging in hammocks or basting on the sand, gleefully inhaling trashy beach reads or the

It’s raining inside the Uffizi. The downpour outside, cascading from the Florence skies, is getting in through the ceiling and staff are rushing around with buckets. At the centre of this watery quadrangle are two painted wooden panels mounted in a s

In recent years the reimagining of Greek myth has become almost a genre in itself: from classicists such as Madeline Miller and Natalie Haynes to Margaret Atwood and Colm Tóibín, modern writers have found fresh ways to spin these ancient stories. Man

Nothing is more interesting to poker players and less interesting to everyone else than a breathless recounting of who bet how much with a jack and six of clubs in some game years ago. There’s an awful lot of that kind of thing in this book, which ce

We struggle to find a chicken big enough to feed all the family. If I want to roast two birds in the same oven, does this affect the cooking time? Mary, UK If your oven is large enough to hold two chickens in a big roasting tray, you can absolutely r

Prep 5 min Cook 30 min Chill Overnight Makes 48 biscuits 190g unsalted butter, softened75g caster sugarZest of ½ orange, finely grated145g plain flour75g blanched and finely ground marcona almonds, or shop-bought ground almonds20g breadcrumbs, toaste

The Irish peat extraction agency Bord na Móna once explained to me: “We are a development agency, not a conservation organisation.” I had bemoaned the destruction of bogland ecosystems across the country through the use of huge extraction machinery a

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