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

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Trump’s big gamble • The US president’s attack on Iran, just days into his Board of Peace era, had no mandate or legal basis

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • The rise and fall of a ruthless supreme leader

The reaction Scenes of joy and sorrow reveal nation’s deep divisions

‘Bitter news’ • Deadly school strike exposes human cost of US-led attack

Destructive path • Iran’s regime risks breakdown in civil order

Rising tension • Anger grows over Tehran’s ‘reckless’ strikes

A deadly minute Behind the clinical operation that killed Ali Khamenei

‘We didn’t vote for this’ • Strikes test the Maga vow of ‘no wars’

Boiling point Trump’s war is result of a bitter enmity that simmered for years

‘They were going into battle’ Inside the tourist town where a drug lord made his last stand • Tapalpa is deserted and scared after a day of terror in which ‘El Mencho’, feared leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, was killed during a military raid

A bad year for the Louvre What next for the world’s most-visited museum? • After a heist and the departure of its boss, the Paris institution wrestles with repairs, strikes and a criticised renovation plan

New wave Can fishing capture Cornwall’s youth? • Taster days and training offer teenagers an escape from seasonal work – and give a boost to threatened industry

Geothermal plant draws on a proud mining past

Priorities of political elite criticised as violence grips nation

Step change • Ancient wells revived as water crisis bites

Making sense of species Why lizards hold key to how nature works • The emergence of a new group of common wall lizards offers an insight into how variety within nature can help conserve species

Taliban strikes • In Islamabad, patience with Afghanistan finally runs out

The Guthrie case and the unseen thousands of missing

SERIOUS, SLICK … STANDING FOR PRESIDENT? • He’s the Democratic politician with movie-star looks, dogged by accusations of being a smooth-talking elitist. But Gavin Newsom may just win the most powerful office in the world

Up close and personal • From children’s funerals to underground shelters, Ukrainian Julia Kochetova has captured the war in her homeland with power and humanity. ‘I have the same scars as the people I photograph,’ she says ahead of a major show

Taylor Lorenz • Social media bans around the world won’t help young people

Jason Okundaye • My anger at what I saw and heard at the Baftas is aimed at the BBC

John Harris • Labour needs to wake up to the dawning of a new political era

The GuardianView • Trump’s Iran campaign is an illegal war that risks becoming the new normal

Opinion Letters

Rebel yell • Roaring into her 90s, Rose Wylie is now sought after by galleries worldwide and her wild, witty paintings fetch huge sums. Melissa Denes visited her studio

It’s a steal Game that lets players return relics • Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies

The final chapter • The so-called ‘pocket book’ sold in supermarkets across the US is being phased out, the latest sign of an ongoing shift in how people are choosing to...