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

Global report • United Kingdom

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SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Can the Church of England recover? • Shock waves triggered by the archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation are the culmination of years of simmering rage among churchgoers and survivors of abuse

‘Directly responsible’ Abuse victim blames C of E for suffering • Rocky Leanders, then 15, was beaten with a paddle by John Smyth at a camp where boys were made to swim naked

Unfinished business • Welby’s resignation speaks of deeper issues in the Church

Spotlight Trump’s flurry of extremist staff picks spark fears

City’s Haitian immigrants flee in fear of deportation

US ‘dream team’ is welcomed by settlers • Palestinian groups shocked by Trump’s selection of outspoken supporters of far-right activists in the region

Missing out • Children not allowed to travel for care

‘It’s tragic’ • Reflection in the wake of Amsterdam violence

Off target? • Questions asked after US allows Kyiv to fire into Russia

Eyewitness Solomon Islands

Cop summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’, say experts

Choppy waters • China faces crucial decisions during Trump’s second term

Alive, but unable to thrive under absolute patriarchy • Since the Taliban returned to power, women and girls have tried defiance, but despair at their harshly restricted lives

Drought-stricken dam leaves economies powerless

‘I’m here for the selfie’ • The church mirror that’s gone viral

‘A new horizon’ The inverse link between cancer and dementia • Scientists have long been aware of a curious connection between these common and feared diseases. At last, a clearer picture is emerging

Bikes v cars • Premier threatens to tear up urban cycling lanes

What is driving the global political gender split?

KERNELS OF HOPE • During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable seed collection, the first of its kind, had to protect it from fire, rodents – and hunger

Friendship interrupted • They were best mates. Then one had a baby, while the other struggled to conceive. They share their brutally honest takes on what happens when motherhood affects friendship

Opinion Simon Tisdall • Barbarians are at the gate – but the EU’s leaders are too busy infighting

Marina Hyde • Let this be the end of these excruciating celebrity endorsements

Larry Elliott • Seven lessons I’ve learned after 28 years as economics editor

The GuardianView • Ireland’s election has barely registered in Britain but its impact could be critical

Opinion Letters

Culture • Film and TV have a slippery relationship with the truth when it comes to historical epics. So spare a thought for experts whose advice goes unheeded

Frank Auerbach 1931 – 2024 • Saved from the Holocaust, this artist captured the devastation of postwar Britain as if its wounds were his own – but he ultimately found salvation in painting

Across the universe • Samantha Harvey won the Booker prize with a novel set in space. Yet, she says, Orbital is actually ‘a celebration of Earth’s beauty with a pang of loss’

Reviews

Terrorism on trial • A harrowing chronicle of the hearings into the 2015 Paris attacks – the largest criminal case in French history – from a master of the genre

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