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 United States

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

United Kingdom

Eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Royal touch • A deft mix of flattery and coded criticism allowed Charles to win over Trump, but what difference will it make?

Play it cool • A visit by King Charles leaves New Yorkers unfazed

Crown points • Charles III’s subtle history lesson delivered the US some tough love

‘We love our Americans’ • Town rocked by US troop withdrawal

Decision to downsize deepens rift with allies in Europe

Could the UAE’s exit from Opec trigger an oil price war? • A postwar standoff between Gulf oil giants risks causing greater volatility in global markets for years to come, experts predict

‘Project Freedom’ • Trump’s latest plot twist may be a fast track back to conflict

Homeward bound

Curfew in capital as nearby militant violence flares • Surprise coordinated attack on towns and cities by jihadists and separatists has rattled the regime and its security ally Russia

Power play • Insurgents could force the hand of a worndown regime

Take flight The Lost Words pair set sights on birds • Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane give the Guardian extracts from their book on Britain’s declining bird species

Exclusive extracts from The Book of Birds

Sounds, sights and tastes of totalitarian terror brought to biennale • They’ve been imprisoned, tortured and spied upon. Now dissidents bring their ordeal to the world’s biggest art fair

On a mission • Pope’s visit has revealed how vital Africa is to Catholicism

Billionaire’s son of fers to house Pablo Escobar’s feral hippos

Great leaps forward • Nearly 60 years after Apollo 11, is China poised to overtake the US in the race to establish inhabited human bases on the moon? to

California dreaming • Could GOP hopeful be governor?

Direct flight from Miami to Caracas marks reset connection

Asian mothers, bad feelings • The stereotypical tiger mother tends to be portrayed as strict, cold and resentful. But the pop-culture depictions are far from the full story By Rebecca Liu

Angels of deception • To test the safety and security of AI, hackers have to trick large language models into breaking their own rules. It requires ingenuity and manipulation – and can come at a deep emotional cost

Jonathan Freedland • Where are the so-called anti-racists when British Jews need them?

Helen Pearson • Follow the evidence: it’s a prophylactic against anti-science

Tania Roettger • Climate U-turn is the worst possible response to oil shock

The Guardian View • A citizens’ assembly could help break the deadlock on assisted dying reform

Opinion Letters

BECKY BARNICOAT ON MILLENNIAL LIFE

Just divine • A major London exhibition reveals how Francisco de Zurbarán reaches into the deepest dimensions of spirituality

‘Primitive surrealism’

Misgivings Opera needs to evaluate its funders • New York’s Metropolitan Opera has just lost the promise of a $200m investment, but should it have entertained Saudi support in the first place?

Wild at heart • The Great Moose Migration is a ‘slow TV’ sensation, keeping audiences worldwide glued to the epic trek – even if they’re rarely spotted on screen

Reviews

The human mind still wins out • AI has awesome capabilities but our brains will...