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 Japan

Covid’s wealth divide, rockets fired in Israel and a family’s lifeline

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

United Kingdom

Worlds apart • As vaccine programmes enable rich societies to reopen, poorer nations are bearing the brunt. Can the issue of vaccine equity be resolved in time to save millions of lives?

Revealed: the 46m displaced people being excluded from Covid jabs • WHO review discovers many national programmes exclude asylum seekers, refugees and migrants

It’s good Biden is suspending vaccine patents. But the whole rotten system needs an overhaul David Adler and Mamka Anyona

Has Labour lost its way in the old heartlands for good?

Tensions flare as Rayner is sacked, then promoted

Why Brexit may be a red herring in the Jersey fishing war

Stepping down Pablo Iglesias may be gone, but he reshaped Spanish politics

Eyewitness Russia

Jerusalem seethes as rockets are fired and tension rises

The ‘poor man’s cocaine’ creating a narco state

Retreat of the giants • Mountain glacier melt contributes more than a quarter of extra volume to the world’s oceans, disrupting ancient cycles of creation

‘Son of the Andean soil’ promises a presidency for the poor • A runoff election will pit the 51-year-old teacher against the far-right daughter of the disgraced 90s autocrat

In solidarity and rebellion, Zapatistas set sail for Spain

Backyard studios hit rare note of optimism • In a world of unemployment and crime, music offers precious hope to young people stuck in the townships

Cairo nights Music hall women who lit up the 20s

Are there too many people on Earth? All bets are off • Wagers between scientists and economists have brought attention to the serious aspects of population growth

How Cheney became a martyr to Trump resistance

Covid grips Alberta ‘Are we in trouble? Absolutely’

In between places • Angela Qian was born in the US, but her family in China have always played a big part in her life. Is it really possible to live contentedly in two different cultures?

WETTER THE BETTER • In Gothenburg, it rains nearly 40% of the time – so the Swedish city has a plan to make a virtue of it

How the Guardian small ads saved my family • In 1938, Julian Borger’s father escaped the Nazis with the help of an advert in the Manchester Guardian – like many other Austrian Jewish children. Here, he tells their story

If we want more babies, address the motherhood penalty first Sonia Sodha

The inside story of how we reached a verdict on Trump’s Facebook ban Alan Rusbridger

Mass rape in Tigray is ignored as west wants to keep Abiy on side Simon Tisdall

Labour must be ready to inspire when Johnson loses his vaccine bounce • Founded 1821 Independently owned by the Scott Trust

Letters

AMERICAN ODYSSEY • Barry Jenkins opens up on the emotional toll of adapting the Pulitzer prize-winning slavery novel The Underground Railroad for TV

RAW TO THE CORE • Jean Dubuffet was the inventor of ‘art brut’ who se provocative paintings, often culled from graffiti, still have an impact on the world around us today

NATURE OF THE BEASTS • A series of investigations, told with humour and humanity, looks at our complex relationships with pets, livestock and wildlife

PERSONAL SPACES • The deeply gendered experience of freedom is...