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 China

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

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SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

‘Electoral autocracy’ Trump and the Orbán playbook • The president has moved to gut the federal government, fire critics and reward allies – treading a path similar to ‘would-be dictators’, such as the Hungarian leader

Is the levy dry? • Why Trump blinked before imposing his ‘beautiful’ tariffs

The Elon empire • It is Musk, not Trump, who is running America

‘This time, we stay’ • The families vowing not to leave Gaza

Debris of war • How will Gaza reconstruct its annihilated infrastructure?

Countries unite against Trump’s ICC sanctions

Soft power • Will USAid shutdown surrender ground to China?

Eyewitness Italy

Has Merz’s immigration bet played into hands of the AfD?

Brink of war • Fears grow of escalating conf lict in spite of talks

‘Hope has returned’ Amazon tribe hails Lula’s fight • Two years after Brazil’s president vowed to help, the Yanomami are reclaiming their land, health and future

Green belt that’s keeping a city cool • Huge swathes of vegetation surround the urban sprawl of Ouagadougou as an unusual project looks to combat the effects of the climate crisis

‘Waiting for a miracle’ • Island asks for equal chance

Class war • The film that reveals Putin propaganda in schools

National day unites Māori visitors in show of resistance

Enjoy the silence • Our increasingly noisy world has been linked to ill health as well as hearing loss. That’s not the only reason we need more peace and quiet

Schools on high alert as fear of deportation ramps up

Bukele’s rise • Strongman who became the darling of the right

The mind reader • In 2016, Noland Arbaugh had an accident that left him paralysed. Then Elon Musk came to the rescue with a brain implant that gave him the power to control computers with his mind. Is Neuralink a life-changing innovation that could help millions – or the start of a dystopia in which a billionaire can access our every thought?

Syria’s feminist fortress • In a society riven by conflict and misogyny, the autonomous region of Rojava in north-east Syria has a government with perhaps the most complete gender equality in the world

Jonathan Freedland • Trump is fuelling lethal fantasies of driving people from their land

Stephen Bates • How well will Charles’s revolutionary vision translate to television?

Will Hutton • The right are wrong on climate – why is the UK following their lead?

The GuardianView • Borders can’t contain the devastating, destabilising crisis engulfing Sudan

Opinion Letters

Heroes to villains • With 13 Oscar nominations, Emilia Pérez’s cast and flying high. Then came a social media scandal and a fearsome backlash

Bring it on home Led Zep’s first biopic • How were the famously interview-shy rock gods persuaded to take part in a film about their early success with the band telling their own story?

Power pointe • Ballet has always been more than just a job for Carlos Acosta. And as director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, he is trying to make it bigger than ever

Reviews

Dead souls • The Nobel laureate bears witness to Korea’s traumatic past as one woman’s quest is told through haunting, harrowing imagery

Legacy of violence • A seething...