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.

Editor’s notes

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Is Iran Trump’s Suez crisis? • What began as a show of strength has exposed the costs of brinkmanship, recalling Britain’s disastrous 1956 intervention. Its global standing never recovered; now the US risks repeating that history in the Middle East.

Peace talks stall • Too many negotiators and too little time to reach an agreement

The king’s speech • Forget protocol – here’s what Charles should really say in the US

On Budapest streets, joy and disbelief greet end of Orbán era

Rising star • Budapest’s next leader energised voters but is ‘a dark horse’

‘Ambassadors for humanity’ • Artemis II crew return as Nasa faces deep cuts

How did a festival get it so wrong over Kanye West? • Industry experts say booking the controversial US rapper was a calculated risk that will have major implications for other music events

Tribal lines • Is sectarianism putting power sharing at risk in Stormont?

Emperor penguins under threat of extinction

Squawk back • Macaws are returning to Rio after 200 years

How the EU’s largest news publisher fell in love with the US

Stop the press? • White House correspondents’ dilemma over Trump dinner

Why a dating agency is matching couples with same names

A new KFC • How Korean fried chicken took over the world

Snakes alive! One man’s quest to help deliver an antivenom • Bitten by snakes 200 times – on purpose – Tim Friede put his ‘ass on the line’ to help stop snakebite deaths, which appear to be rising amid the climate crisis

Survival mode • Why the Nato alliance looks strong despite Trump threats

Bullish Dallas goes after new money on ‘Y’all Street’

DEGREES OF SEPARATION • UK universities rely on fees from overseas applicants, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many student hopefuls with crushing debt and no job

THE A TEAM • FROM TATE TO MOUNTBATTEN-WINDSOR, A NUMBER OF NOTORIOUS FIGURES HAVE GIVEN ANDREWS A BAD RAP IN RECENT YEARS. BUT A GROWING NUMBER OF DREWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ARE DETERMINED TO CHANGE THAT

Polly Toynbee • Orbán’s defeat could represent a turning tide for the hard right

Hettie O’Brien • Capitalism’s endgame is to own all that we use in our everyday lives

Jonathan Freedland • Netanyahu may pay at polls for pursuing wrong strategy for decades

The Guardian View • London is nothing like the lawless dystopia depicted by online propagandists

Opinion Letters

Light and shade • As his Venice award-winning new movie opens in the UK, the master of offbeat indie cinema Jim Jarmusch talks about why each new film is harder to make

The cosmic, teeming frequencies of space • As Artemis II returns from the dark side of the moon, Nasa’s transformations of electromagnetic energy into sound remind us that everything is vibrating

A light that never goes out • In the years after the fall of communism, Warsaw’s neon signs were left to rust. A museum is sparking a revival of interest in the cold war-era illuminations

Reviews

Could AI be the greatest art heist in history? • Tech barons are plundering the art world – and getting away with it

Everyday miracles • This charming insider account of life stuck in a centre for disabled adults...