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

Global report • United Kingdom

Eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Musk under fire • Democrats believe attacking the world’s richest man as an unelected billionaire bent on a slash-and-burn crusade targeting social security and healthcare will revive their prospects as the Tesla CEO’s popularity sinks

Highly charged • Teslas targeted as anti-Musk protests spread

The Tesla boycott • Trump has met a force he can’t control: consumer choice

Retreat from Kursk marks end of audacious incursion

Starmer urges Putin to commit to ceasefire

Refugees fleeing DRC conflict tell of deadly journey

Family fallout Has Rodrigo Duterte’s extradition opened up old rivalries? • As the former president faces trial in The Hague, a bitter dynastic feud has returned to shape the political landscape

Eyewitness Ireland

Sudan rejects Palestinian resettlement proposals

History in ruins ‘I will spend rest of my life rebuilding’ • Archaeologists say more than two-thirds of Gaza’s heritage sites have been damaged. Residents have vowed to restore them

Out of dust A barren land restored • Loess plateau was once the world’s most eroded place, until a Chinese project began reversing decades of damage from farming

The women protecting mangroves and defying chauvinists • The guardianas fought drug dealers, fly tippers – and their own husbands – to build a thriving eco co-operative

Silent symbol • The battered statue in the middle of a war zone

Mancunians enthused by plans for UK’s biggest stadium

Fault lines Can rocks be racist? • Kathryn Yusoff’s latest book sparked a culture war. In it, she suggests white supremacy informed the founding of geology. Both she and other experts argue those legacies persist today

Wartime law invoked to deport 250 people to El Salvador

The steel town on the frontline of Trump’s tariff war

Surviving Syria’s civil war • At 18, Mustafa was told his only way out of prison was to join the government’s fighters. After 14 years, as the Assad regime crumbled faster than anyone expected, he is caught between an uncertain future and a past that could get him killed

Food for thought The baby scandal snack • Have you shopped for children’s food recently? The lumpy purees and porridge of yesteryear have been joined in supermarket aisles by brilliantly marketed pouches, smoothies and biscotti that many parents feel offer good nutritional value. However, the reality is a bit harder to digest

Simon Tisdall • The honeymoon is over for Trump, whose every misstep brings chaos

Isabel Losada • Forget unicorns – show children the magic of real, living animals

George Monbiot • Britain’s food supply is precarious – so I’ve started stockpiling

The GuardianView • The elegance of chess has captured the imagination of primetime television

Opinion Letters

‘He said I sounded hysterical’ • In prose and in paint, Celia Paul is exorcising the ghosts of her past – from the cruelties of her lover Lucian Freud to his offhand cohorts and the YBA revolution

In pole position for behind-the-scenes sport • Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive is one of the most influential shows of the past decade. But how did it turn such a tedious sport into gripping television?

‘A cascade of terrible things’ • A new documentary pieces together the...