The Guardian Weekly - April 26, 2024
The Guardian Weekly - April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
Melania is back-but she's still not playing by the rules
Her biggest fashion statement as first lady was a green jacket emblazoned with the words, “I really don’t care, do u?” More recently Melania Trump has given the impression that she doesn’t care whether her husband, Donald, returns to the White House. That is about to change.
3 mins
Poll prejudice In a big voting year, where are all the female candidates?
With more people set to vote in elections than at any time in history, 2024 is being touted as a test of democracies’ strength around the world. But one thing remains in noticeably short supply – female leadership candidates.
3 mins
The man who helped scores to flee violence in Darfur
Every night, for weeks at a time last year, Saad al-Mukhtar put a small group of people in the back of his Toyota Land Cruiser and drove them under the cover of darkness from his home in the Sudanese city of Geneina across the border and into Chad.
3 mins
Battle ready How might new US aid change the war?
After months of stalling, the US House of Representatives last weekend approved more than $61bn of military assistance to help Ukraine in its fight against Russia, as well as billions for other allies including Israel and Taiwan.
3 mins
Track record Paris Olympics of 1924 saved the Games. Can this be repeated?
Paris 1924 was the sixth and last Olympics presided over by Baron de Coubertin, the modern movement’s founder. He had good reason to be pleased with his work.
2 mins
Is Paris ready to embrace its Olympic moment?
In a live television interview from Paris’s Grand Palais – the centrepiece of this year’s Olympic Games, which open on 26 July – Emmanuel Macron set out his ambitions for the country’s athletes in much the same way he might outline a political manifesto.
5 mins
Under fire IDF is fighting on many fronts-but the hardest may be at home
Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defence minister, described the conflict Israel was engaged in as a “multi-front war” this month.
3 mins
The new rules of engagement
The response by Gulf states to the Iran-Israel conflict may well decide the outcome of the crisis - but the Sunni monarchies face complicated choices about the region's future
5 mins
All together now
Irish post-punk band Fontaines DC's forthcoming album Romance promises to be an arena-filling singalong-and that's how they want it
7 mins
Can Britons learn to love the idea of the 'nanny state'?
Despite detractors, Rishi Sunak’s tobacco bill shows the public will support policies that would once have been thought draconian
3 mins
Out of the shadows A Pandora's box has been opened, and this crisis is far from over
Israel’s retaliation was surprisingly limited. Iran minimised the significance of last Friday’s air attacks on a military base near Isfahan and other targets, denying they were externally directed.
3 mins
Pacifist who helped Ukrainians dies in jail
Schoolteacher Alexander Demidenko guided refugees back to their homeland until he was arrested and tortured in prison by Kremlin forces
2 mins
Huck reimagined This bravura rewriting of Mark Twain from enslaved Jim's pointof view is part critique and part celebration
Percival Everett's new novel lures the reader in with the brilliant simplicity of its central conceit. James is the retelling of Mark Twain's 1884 classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from the point of view of Jim, the runaway slave who joins Huck on his journey down the Mississippi River.
3 mins
Can AI make intelligent art?
Pierre Huyghe's uncanny machine-human hybrids are the latest attempt to find deeper meaning in a technology that leaves many playing catch-up
4 mins
Ripley: a psychopath made for social media
Patricia Highsmith's charming devil has fascinated film-makers since the 1960s, but his brand of evil seems well suited to the Instagram age
3 mins
For a year, the bodies have piled up-and still the world looks away
One year ago this week, Sudan descended into war. The toll so far is catastrophic.
3 mins
A test for US justice as Trump's criminal trial begins
He has been businessman, TV showman and president of the United States. This week, in the sobering surroundings of a New York courtroom, Donald Trump played yet another role in American history when he became the first former White House occupant to stand trial in a criminal case.
3 mins
Tall tales Children flock to the storyteller of Karachi
Pedalling down a narrow alleyway in Karachi's crowded Lyari Town, Saira Bano slows as she passes a group of children sitting on the ground, listening to a man reading aloud from a book. The eight-year-old gets off her bike, slips off her sandals, and sits on the mat at the back.
2 mins
The stolen schoolgirls
Ten years on from Chibok, what happened to the 276 Nigerian girls who were snatched by Islamist militants from their school?
6 mins
Second coming for Notre Dame's salvaged artworks
There was a moment on 15 April 2019 as the flames consuming Notre Dame Cathedral roared into the evening sky when it seemed all would be lost.
3 mins
How the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus was found
After a 30-year hunt, the original was discovered in New South Wales having survived fires and floods
7 mins
Calls to end 'fear culture' in gender research
Cass review found medical professionals scared to discuss views amid risk of reputational damage and online abuse
4 mins
Russia 'is waging an energy war' against Kyiv
A dramatic rise in European energy prices is inevitable if the Russian destruction of Ukrainian energy infrastructure continues unabated, the former chief executive of Ukraine's state-owned oil company has warned.
2 mins
Gamechanger Direct attack on Israel is a crisis that affects us all
The missiles and drones that rained destruction on Israel last Sunday morning gave Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, what he craved - a mandate and justification for openly attacking Iran, a country he has long viewed as Israel's archenemy.
3 mins
RAIDERS of the LOST ART
At least 2,000 items from the British Museum were reported missing, stolen or damaged last year, and it now faces a massive overhaul. But it's not the only institution that finds it hard to keep hold of its collections - and when that happens, who do they call? Mark Wilding meets the art detectives who track down disappeared treasures
10 mins
Iran's attack has shifted focus from aid effort
As Israel becomes 'victim overnight', diplomatic efforts are moving away from plight of Gazans displaced by war
3 mins
SWEPT AWAY
WHEN THE WATERS ROSE, Meike and Dörte Näkel weren't worried. People in this part of the world, the Ahr valley in Germany, are used to it.
10+ mins
Presidents Assemble Obama And Clinton Give Biden Boost
For once showbusiness royalty - Queen Latifah, Lizzo, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo, Lea Michele and Mindy Kaling was not the main attraction. Instead it was a trio of US presidents that enticed people to pay up to half a million dollars for New York's hottest ticket.
3 mins
How Island Kept Death Toll Low In Massive Earthquake
For Nina Huang, it was the shaking that jolted her awake. "The first thing I did when I woke up was to hold the cupboard next to my daughter. I was afraid that it might fall down on her," she recalled. Then her phone buzzed with a warning about a tsunami.
3 mins
Anguish Over Tens Of Thousands Of Missing Palestinians
Late one night in March, Ahmed Abu Jalala rose quietly, trying hard not to wake his family, sleeping around him on the floor of a UN-run school in northern Gaza.
5 mins
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Publisher: Guardian News & Media
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Language: English
Frequency: Weekly
The Guardian Weekly is an international English-language news magazine based in London, UK. It is one of the world's oldest international news publications and has readers in more than 170 countries.
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