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

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Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

The state of the nation America, through the eyes of the world • It has long stood for freedom – but under Trump insults, threats and unpredictability have become the new normal. As the US marks its 250th anniversary, Guardian correspondents report on how it is perceived across the globe

Grief and demands for revenge as Khamenei is mourned

Troubled waters • Tehran seeks to tighten control over the strait of Hormuz

The rescue teams searching for life under the rubble • In the aftermath of two powerful earthquakes, thousands of volunteers are working with international experts to locate more survivors

Eyewitness United Kingdom

Tweet harmonies Recreating the sound of Britain’s lost dawn chorus • Some 73 million wild birds have vanished from the country’s landscape over the last 50 years. Now an audio project has brought them back

INVERTEBRATE OF THE YEAR • Vote for your favourite spineless creature

The jailed activist who symbolises Modi’s India • Umar Khalid tells of his life as one of the nation’s most prominent political prisoners and his enduring opposition to the ruling BJP

Bullseye! • How darts is sweeping the board in Kenya

Relatives still seeking answers as US targets ‘drug boats’

To ban or not to ban? • Australia’s prohibition of social media for under-16s has led to global calls for better regulation and safeguards in what has been called technology’s ‘big tobacco’ moment

Trump leads the rise of political grifters in the west

Supreme court • Birthright ruling reveals much about Trump’s power

Morality and the machine • Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at DeepMind, trying to assess the impact of artificial intelligence. But amid a technological race, can ethicists make a difference?

‘It’s like theatre of the absurd’ • Laying siege to freedoms and truth itself, Donald Trump has hijacked America’s milestone 250th anniversary and turned it into a joyless, farcical occasion

Simon Tisdall • As leaders suffer moral malaise, thank heavens for the pope

Laura Snapes • Taylor Swift doesn’t need a break to ‘enjoy’ her new marriage

Gaby Hinsliff • Farage may be on the brink – but if he goes, Labour can’t rest easy

The Guardian View • Anti-migrant politics and xenophobic violence can’t f ix South Africa’s problems

Opinion Letters

BECKY BARNICOAT ON MILLENNIAL LIFE

Love thy neighbour • Edward Norton and Olivia Wilde discuss their new film, a funny, buzzy sex comedy about a couple’s evening with the people upstairs, and how spontaneity can keep a marriage alive

‘Amusing and bizarrely moving’

Twist of fate A graphic history of tarot cards • A new exhibition follows the unlikely route of these beguiling decks all the way from 15th-century Italy to their association with the occult today

Smoke on the water • From Miles Davis to Count Basie and Etta James to Prince, Rotterdam’s North Sea festival has hosted the biggest names in jazz – and now it is turning 50

Reviews

Faith no more • JD Vance’s Christian vision is thoughtful – but impossible to square with his politics

A smart sequel • Queenie’s ticking biological clock spurs on her chaotic misadventures

Taboo and twisted • This exploration of controversial...