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.

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

Open invitation • Although Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has welcomed the EU's offer to become the bloc's first associate member, no one seems to know what the phrase actually means - or its benefit

A blueprint for Britain? Path laid for new alliances • Carney's dealmaking with Brussels suggests the UK should aim higher than its modest ambitions for a reset

Power shift • Carney’s eloquent case for a partnership that sidesteps Washington

'We left everything': thousands flee as war reignites

Mecca pact Agreement could draw Islamabad into conflict

Screen test Ovations and death threats for war film

Moscow could attack Nato in 'months', spy chiefs warn

Hands free

Spotlight Europe • Residents of the newly independent Piddington take stock as far-right activist and the world's media descend

Spotlight Environment

Cafe society The drive to revive the dying heart of rural villages • Depopulation and falling alcohol consumption are forcing bistros to close, but some are being rescued

The women who fight fire and patriarchy to save the land

The team that hoped to cause new shockwaves 20 years on

Shape of things to come • Meet the mapmakers whose Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN this month, does away with European bias to provide an alternative to the 16th-century Mercator display

Trump's battle over Kennedy Center has put it at risk

Crash and burn AI debt, the Iran war and rising bond yields fuel market turmoil

End times fascists are plotting their escape from Earth with only the chosen few on board • Our mission is to stop them

THE PIRATES ARRIVED WITH AK-47S. THEY TOOK US HOSTAGE. THEN THE TORTURE BEGAN • Chirag Bahri was working on a tanker when six men seized it. For almost eight months, he and his colleagues were held captive, an experience that changed his life for ever

Opinion • The stakes are high in this election - it could be the country's last

The weekly veg box has lost its appeal. No more scrubbing mud for me

A wounded Reform can still harness votes in our age of fear

Opinion Letters

Culture • Author Jonathan Franzen on the TV adaptation of his bestseller, his spat with Oprah Winfrey and how he cares 'about getting it right'

Music is no longer a politically neutral act • With a stadium owner on one side and angry support acts pulling out on the other, Ed Sheeran will have to pick a side over his views on Israel and Palestine

A bubbling cauldron • Playing a sound rooted in 80s bands such as Witchfinder General and Pagan Altar, heavy metal bands are gravitating towards dark folklore

Why culture is alive – literally From Mozart to Madonna, St Peter’s to the Taj Mahal – not all forms of life need DNA

Culture Books

Out of power: a control freak interviews an eminent scientist

Taste maker: the secret to making a jackfruit curry flavoursome

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