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The Guardian Weekly
Wavering over support for Kyiv, US Congress plays Putin's game
On 24 October, 30 members of the House Democratic Progressive Caucus released a letter to Joe Biden calling for a \"proactive diplomatic push\" on Kyiv to work toward a ceasefire and \"direct [US] engagement\" with Moscow to end the Russia-Ukraine war. One week earlier, Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy's no \"blank cheque\" for Ukraine comment raised questions about future congressional support for US assistance to that embattled country.
3 min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Thanks to Brexit Northern Ireland faces another pointless election
Last month, amid all the turmoil in the Tory party, there was a brief flurry of interest in the emergence as a candidate for prime minister of the man more than one British reporter referred to as \"the Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis\".
4 min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
‘When someone dies prematurely, you're left careering in a different direction’
They were the golden couple of British acting, but Helen McCrory’ death last year left Damian Lewis shattered. Now he is putting the pieces of himself back together and finding a new creative energy in music
10+ min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
West Africa's future MEGALOPOLIS
The stretch of coast between Abidjan in Ivory Coast and Lagos in Nigeria is on course to become the largest continuously populated zone on the planet. But a lot needs to change to help it flourish
10+ min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Kanye West's empire in ruins after antisemitic outbursts
In 2009, Kanye West was riding high. 808s & Heartbreak, his fourth studio album, proved a resounding critical and commercial triumph. A foray into clothing design had culminated in a Paris fashion week sneaker show with Louis Vuitton and a shoe line with Nike.
3 min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
‘Despair not an option’ Obama fires up anxious Democrats
When Barack Obama came to campaign last week, Emma Berlage wouldn't have missed him for the world. \"It's a Friday night... and everybody's here,\" the 24-year-old said.
3 min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Twitter heaven or hellscape?
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, has finally won control of the media's favourite online platform. Will he press on with his free-speech agenda?
3 min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Families fight for answers in E coli case
Nestlé faces 250m civil suit after two children died and dozens affected by infection linked to factory-made pizza
3 min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
The chef putting his country's cuisine back on the map
In a war, there are many different fronts and forms of resistance Ievgen Klopotenko, a Ukrainian chef, is fighting with soup.
3 min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Into darkness Russian assault on power grid is the strategy of nihilism
Russia's cynical decision to target Ukraine's network of hydroelectric power stations on Monday represents a further, dispiriting escalation in its efforts to destroy the country's power supply.
2 min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Anger grows over deadly Halloween crowd crush
South Korea was in mourning as an investigation opened into the deaths of more than 150 people, mostly young adults, when a huge Halloween party crowd surged into a narrow alley in Seoul.
2 min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Lula’s to-do list Poverty, housing and the Amazon are at the top
While many Brazilians will have woken up with a hangover after celebrating the defeat of Jair Bolsonaro, president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will soon have his own headaches to deal with. He takes power on 1 January 2023 and will be charged with rebuilding a nation that has been left damaged and bitterly divided after four years of Bolsonaro's far-right policies.
3 min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Lula vows to protect the Amazon after era of destruction
The politician tipped to become Brazil's new environment minister has paid tribute to the murdered British journalist Dom Phillips and said Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's incoming government will battle to honour the memory of the rainforest martyrs killed trying to safeguard the Amazon.
3 min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Short change? Activists are divided over the value of direct action
Disruptive tactics have gained huge global coverage but are they alienating the people that they most need to reach?
3 min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
What is loss and damage?
After a catastrophic climate year, expect to hear lots about loss and damage at Cop27, but what does it mean and why is it so contentious?
2 min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Too hot to handle?
The effects of global heating could soon reach a tipping point, but there are fears the summit in Egypt will get bogged down in recriminations as the damage accelerates
5 min |
November 04, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Nouveau Rishi
The former chancellor looked finished when he lost to Liz Truss, but now Rishi Sunak is Britain's third prime minister in two months. Can a man twice as rich as the king lead the country through a cost of living crisis?
4 min |
October 28, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Diversity Multicultural Milestone As UK Has Its First PM Of Colour
Sunak also becomes the first Hindu to lead the countryina symbolic moment for ethnic minority representation
3 min |
October 28, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Putin's Hidden Hybrid War Is Designed To Break Europe's Heart
Nato planners have always worried about the Storskog border crossing in Finnmark, where Arctic Norway comes face to face with Russia. In Soviet times, the 195-km frontier was a potential flashpoint. The Red Banner Northern Fleet's nuclear-armed submarines are still based at nearby Murmansk, on the freezing Barents Sea.
3 min |
October 28, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Ring Of Power Ruthless Xi Settles In For Another Five Years
Xi Jinping named acolytes in key political positions last Sunday as he was confirmed as China's leader for a precedent-breaking third term after a weeklong political meeting that eliminated rivals and strengthened his power.
3 min |
October 28, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
'Social Media Firms Are Undermining Democracy'
YouTube and Facebook are allowing disinformation to be spread about Brazil's election campaign in an already polarised and violent election, according to a report by human rights organisation Global Witness.
2 min |
October 28, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Open House? Republicans plan to sink key Biden legislation
A standoff over the debt ceiling. Aid to Ukraine on the chopping block. And impeachment proceedings against homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas - or perhaps even president Joe Biden himself.
3 min |
October 28, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Despite turmoil, star ballerina strikes note of optimism
Cuba's favourite ballerina, Viengsay Valdés, will run on to the stage of the island's National Theatre on 2 November, fairly certain that it won't collapse beneath her.
3 min |
October 28, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Terrified villagers flee as the battle for Kherson rages on
As she was driven by her son out of Dudchany, a small village in the north-east of the Kherson region a few days ago, Rosaliya Kovalchuk, 72, glimpsed something that will haunt her forever.
3 min |
October 28, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Foreign intervention has hollowed out the state and led to disaster
What comes first in Haiti: disaster or foreign intervention? The conventional, eg first world, wisdom has it that disaster comes first.
3 min |
October 28, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Can period tracking help athletes win?
For many sportswomen, fluctuating hormones can be the difference between winning a medal and going home empty-handed, but researchers and companies hope to turn monthly woes into record-breaking heights
5 min |
October 28, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Relief and unease as two years of isolation finally end
After more than two years of near-total isolation, Japan has reopened its borders to overseas visitors - but the road back to the pre-Covid tourism boom could be long and bumpy.
3 min |
October 28, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Xi's vision of greater isolation will make his country poorer
In August, there was an unexpected stir in China about a scholarly article. The piece, published in a respected but specialist journal, argued that during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing dynasty (1644-1911), China had been a country relatively closed off to the outside world. Most recent I scholarship has assumed that this was a bad thing and that greater openness in the modern era had led to China's rise in global standing and growth. But the article took a contrarian position, suggesting that there were economic and social advantages to the doors being closed in large part. The argument was then sent out on the social media feed of a thinktank closely linked to the Chinese Communist party. There was plenty of social media comment, mostly wondering whether the CCP was hinting that today, too, China should think about whether openness was quite such a good idea.
3 min |
October 28, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
Confessions of a rock star
Bono on the birth of U2, that iTunes album, and the Live Aid show: 'There's only one thing I can see when I watch it: the mullet'
10 min |
October 28, 2022
The Guardian Weekly
'I struggle with the so-called free world compared with life in prison’
When Chelsea Manning leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents, everyone thought they knew why. They were wrong
10+ min |