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The Guardian Weekly Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol211 | Issue№ 18 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian and Observer newspapers in the UK and the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia The weekly magazine has an international focus and three editions: global, Australia and North America. The Guardian was founded in 1821, and Guardian Weekly in 1919. We exist to hold power to account in the name of the public interest, to uphold liberal and progressive values, to fight for the common good, and to build hope. Our values, as laid out by editor CP Scott in 1921, are honesty, integrity, courage, fairness, and a sense of duty to the reader and the community. The Guardian…

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With days to go before polling day, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are locked in a nail-bitingly close US presidential election race, triggering pessimism among Democrats and confidence among Republicans – even though polls suggest both candidates have a near equal chance of entering the White House. The Guardian’s 10-day polling tracking average last week showed Harris, the Democratic nominee and US vice-president, maintaining the single-point advantage over her Republican rival she had a week earlier, 47% to 46%. Surveys for the seven battleground states are equally cliffhanging and provide little obvious clue as to who will reach the threshold of 270 electoral votes essential for victory. According to poll averages, Harris leads by a single point in Michigan and by less than 1% in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin and Nevada.…

They call him the prince of doom. A phone vibrates at 3am and his face appears on X. He is delivering a message: leave or die. The messenger is Avichay Adraee, the Israeli military’s Arabic language spokesperson. In what is frighteningly good Arabic for a non-native speaker, he yells into his phone’s camera, telling Lebanese people to evacuate certain areas “for their safety” before strikes on what Israel says is Hezbollah infrastructure. Last Wednesday, a little after 8am, Adraee issued a new evacuation order. The residents of a large section of Tyre, the second most populated city in south Lebanon, were ordered to leave, joining people from more than 70 villages that have been put under Israeli evacuation orders – which Israel says are aimed at minimising casualties – since…

Taking the stand in France’s biggest ever rape trial, Patrice N, 55, an electrician from the southern town of Carpentras, said he was a “jovial” guy and a fun dad who once trained youth football teams and had a “great respect for women”. He denied the charges of rape, claiming rape had never been his intention. “To my mind, it was a game,” he told the court. Patrice N is one of 51 men on trial for the alleged rape and assault of Gisèle Pelicot, a former logistics manager who has become a feminist hero for insisting the trial be held in public. For a nine-year period from 2011, Gisèle Pelicot was unknowingly sedated and raped by her then husband, Dominique Pelicot, who crushed sleeping tablets and antianxiety medication into…

It is not yet dawn in Ul-upuwene, an Indigenous village in the Brazilian Amazon, but the Wauja people have already risen to prepare for the festive day ahead. The sound of clarinet-like instruments floats across the village, on the banks of the Batovi River, as women sweep the earthen floor between the thatched traditional houses. Men paint their bodies with charcoal and bright-red achiote seeds. As the sun rises over the rainforest, men, women and children all meet in the village centre to sing and dance. The Wauja people are performing ritual dances all day to mark the inauguration of a lifesize replica of a sacred cave called Kamukuwaká, which is being housed in the first Indigenous museum in the Xingu region. The Wauja people hope this unique resource will…

FROM THE ROOFTOP OF THE CASTLE where I’m standing, a panorama of blue-grey turrets stretches into the distance. The effect is like staring into a kaleidoscope. It’s a fairytale sight, the intricate white-painted fronts and curved balconies resembling a collection of adult-sized dollhouses. The fantasy quickly falls apart, though. Many of the castles further into the complex have only concrete facades. In between them, spaces intended for manicured lawns have been reclaimed by wildflowers, some so tall their petals and fronds stretch to the first-floor balconies. An eerie silence is broken only by birdsong and the occasional passing car. It is a warm summer day in August 2023 and there is no one here except a bored security guard and Adem Tekgöz, our tour guide to this bizarre ghost town…

There is a good chance that on 5 November, Americans will elect the first fascist president of the United States. It sounds hyperbolic, it sounds hysterical. Indeed, for exactly those reasons, many of his opponents long held back from using that word about Donald Trump. But the hour is late. Voting is already under way. It’s time to spell out what Trump has said and done, what he threatens to do, what he is. Put aside the personal grossness, on display again in recent days with his reference to the size of the late Arnold Palmer’s manhood. Put aside the fact that he’s a twice-impeached, four times indicted, convicted felon who has been found liable by a court for rape. Focus instead on the F-word. In recent days, the taboo…

In 1960, Oliver Sacks, a 27-year-old University of Oxford graduate, arrived in San Francisco by Greyhound bus. Born in London, Sacks spent the better part of his 20s training to be a doctor, but came to feel that English academic medicine was stifling and stratified. A young queer man with a growing interest in motorcycle leather, Sacks had other reasons to leave. The revelation of his sexuality had caused a family rift: his mother felt it made him an “abomination”. And so he looked for escape across the Atlantic. The new world promised “space, freedom, interstices in which I could live and work”. This is how we meet Oliver Sacks in Letters: as an immigrant undertaking an internship at Mount Zion hospital, the first step in a career on US…

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1 UNITED STATES Harris: ‘It’s going to be a tight race but we will win’ Kamala Harris told a crowd of supporters in Philadelphia last Sunday that she would prevail in the deadlocked presidential race, with time for both candidates fast running out ahead of election day on 5 November. “We know this is going to be a tight race until the very end,” the vice-president told hundreds of supporters. “And make no mistake: we will win.” Meanwhile, anger and vitriol took centre stage at New York’s Madison Square Garden, as Donald Trump held a rally marked by racist comments, coarse insults, and dangerous threats about immigrants. Trump used the rally to repeat his claim that he is fighting “the enemy within” and again promised to launch “the largest deportation programme…

For years, Israel and Iran have waged a “shadow war”, attacking each other indirectly using proxy forces, assassinations, informants, spies and hybrid, non-military covert means. Now this undeclared, largely silent war is out in the open. It’s escalating, and there’s no end in sight. This is not to say Israel’s large-scale air assault on Tehran and other targets inside Iran last Saturday means the two enemies are now engaged in all-out conflict. This is not yet the full-scale, region-wide conflagration so many in the Middle East fear. Ever since its 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran has volubly supported Palestinian rights and vowed to destroy Israel. It created what the Israelis call an encircling “ring of fire”, building an “axis of resistance” involving Shia militias such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis…

Commonwealth leaders have resolved that “the time has come” for a conversation on reparatory justice, despite the UK’s insistence that the issue was not on their agenda. The language, agreed at the Common-wealth heads of government meeting (Chogm) last Saturday, is a blow to the UK, which wanted to avoid reparatory justice being mentioned. Keir Starmer told a press conference after the summit that the text “notes calls for discussion and it agrees that this is the time for conversations”. But he stressed that “none of the discussions have been about money. Our position is very, very clear on that.” The UK government has said it does not pay reparations and insisted that the question was not on the agenda for Chogm before the summit. However, Commonwealth leaders ultimately defied…

The video is grainy but the message is clear. The clip, posted by NK News, purports to show North Korean soldiers receiving supplies at a training base in Russia’s east, ahead of joining Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. News that Pyongyang has sent 3,000 troops to train to fight in the war has horrified Ukraine, the US and Europe. But it has special significance in Seoul – 7,300km from Kyiv – where North Korea is a both an enemy and a next-door neighbour. What was once a European conflict is now an Asian one, too. In return for weapons and troops, Pyongyang will secure much-needed cash and, possibly, Russian knowhow on intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarines – hardware upgrades that would intensify the threat the North already poses to its…

Maria Elena Cárdenas is 76 and lives in a municipal shelter on Amargura Street in Havana’s colonial old town. The building has an elegant past, but in recent days Maria has been cooking with sticks she found on the street. “You know, we Cubans manage the best we can,” she said. She lives in the shelter because her home collapsed, a regular occurrence in the poorest, oldest parts of the beautiful city. Cuba’s government has spent the last days attempting to get the national grid functioning after repeated island-wide blackouts. Without power, sleep becomes difficult in the heat, food spoils and water supply fails. Parts of Cuba’s communist system still function: the municipality sent Maria food. “We are three families here,” she said. “I live alone, the lady who lives…

More than a year into Israel’s war in Gaza, it is hard to talk of “escalation”. Because to isolate moments of military escalation, such as Israel’s attack on Iran last Saturday, seems to suggest that otherwise, what is taking place in Gaza is normal or acceptable. Perhaps, instead, we can talk of confrontation. Perhaps we can talk about how, over the past weeks, Israel’s campaign in northern Gaza has confronted the world with what has become increasingly difficult to deny: ethnic cleansing. Civilians, including children, are being killed in ways that can only suggest an indiscriminate assault to eliminate Palestinians, or scare them into moving en masse from ever-expanding zones of death and starvation. “The entire population of northern Gaza,” said the UN’s acting humanitarian chief, “is at risk of…

It is a treacherous landscape, the set of Wolf Hall, which sits under grey clouds beside Wells Cathedral. Outside in the field, production vans spin their wheels and horses kick up mud. Inside, the Bishop’s Palace is mined with cables, scaffold and lighting rigs. Visitors are advised to tread carefully. Danger lurks at every turn. “You watch yourself there,” cautions Timothy Spall. “You won’t lose your head, but you might lose your balance.” For three months, Wolf Hall’s cast and crew have shuttled between England’s heritage sites: Hampton Court and Haddon Hall, Lacock Abbey and Montacute House. Now they’re in the final straight. Cooling his heels in his trailer with a flask of tea, Spall explains he has only one scene left to film – opposite lead player Mark Rylance…

They do it with James Bond, so why not with George Smiley? The estate of Ian Fleming has allowed many new 007 books to be written by luminaries such as William Boyd, Anthony Horowitz and even Jeffery Deaver, to keep the franchise (and, perhaps, its copyrights) alive. So why not try the same with John le Carré’s great anti-Bond, the diffident, corpulent and brilliant spymaster of “the Circus”? At least here the literary pedigree is unimpeachable: the novelist Nick Harkaway is also le Carré’s son. You wouldn’t want to plonk Smiley down in the present day and have him mutter owlishly about pronouns and smartphones. He belongs to the cold war, in his anonymous overcoats and ability to live in Chelsea. So Harkaway sets his story in a gap between…

It’s juicing day! The highpoint of the year for Transition Town Wellington (TTW), and a cloudy-sunshiney mixed autumn day it is. Ideal apple weather. The team rock up at Brendon Orchards’ community press, and unload the crates. The press was set up in 2007 to “stop the tragic waste of apples”, and this time of year it’s booked solid. Somerset is apple central, with more than 150 varieties, and the TTW volunteers have been harvesting windfalls and excess apples from local orchards and farms for three weeks. We set to work. Each apple is cleaned and sorted. Duke of Cornwall, Newton Wonder, Peter Lock and Blenheim Orange. Tiny sour cider apples and pale green monsters that hardly fit in a hand – all go into what I’ve been calling the…

ECONOMY Starmer vows to face ‘harsh reality’ ahead of budget Keir Starmer promised to “embrace the harsh light of fiscal reality” as his chancellor prepared to unveil a budget this week that was expected to include billions of pounds’ worth of tax rises and spending cuts. The prime minister gave a speech defending Labour’s approach, as Rachel Reeves readied to deliver what she claimed would be as momentous a budget as any in the party’s history. The chancellor was expected to set out a major boost to capital spending, paid for by higher borrowing, tax rises and a squeeze on departmental budgets. Starmer insisted that working people need better public services. “It is working people who pay the price when their government fails to deliver economic stability. They’ve had enough…

Vladimir Putin opened the expanded Brics summit last month by issuing a call for an alternative international payments system that could prevent the US using the dollar as a political weapon. But the summit communique indicated that little progress had been made on this. Speaking at the summit in the Russian city of Kazan, Putin said: “The dollar is being used as a weapon. We really see that this is so. I think that this is a big mistake by those who do this.” He said that nearly 95% of trade between Russia and China is now conducted in rubles and yuan. The move to de-dollarise has unnerved some members – notably Brazil and India – that do not want their rapidly expanding club to become solely pro-Chinese and anti-western.…

‘Since the start of the space age, we’ve had a throwaway culture – a bit like plastics in the ocean,” said Nick Shave, managing director of Astroscale UK, an in-orbit servicing company head-quartered in Japan. Getting a satellite into orbit around the Earth used to be a big deal. From the launch of the first, Sputnik, in 1957, as it became easier and cheaper to put satellites into space, the numbers have boomed. In 2022, there were about 6,000 and by 2030, one estimate suggests there will be nearly 60,000 satellites in orbit around our planet. Look up on a clear night now and you may well see a bright train of dots traversing the sky. These are part of SpaceX’s “megaconstellation” of satellites, Starlink, which offers increased access to…

ALEXANDRA MORTON-HAYWARD, a 35-year-old mortician turned molecular palaeontologist, had been behind the wheel of her rented Vauxhall for five hours, motoring across three countries, when a torrential storm broke loose on the plains of Belgium. Her wipers pulsed at full speed as the green fields of Flanders turned a blurry grey. Behind her sat a small, black picnic cooler. Within 24 hours, it would be full of human brains – not modern specimens, but brains that had contemplated this landscape as far back as the middle ages and had, miraculously, remained intact. For centuries, archaeologists have been perplexed by discoveries of ancient skeletons devoid of all soft tissue, except what Morton-Hayward cheerfully described as “just a brain rattling around in a skull”. At Oxford, where she is a doctoral candidate,…

Last month, France’s second city suffered a pair of brutal killings that appeared to be the latest in a long list of tragedies inflicted by drug-related turf wars. The age of those involved in the latest killings was especially stomach-churning. The Marseille prosecutor, Nicolas Bessone, described how following the recent gang killing of a 15-year-old, a 14-year-old had been hired to carry out a revenge killing. A prisoner had recruited the teenager, the prosecutor said, and “organised the logistics for him to be collected by car and brought to a hotel room in Marseille”. The 14-year-old then allegedly shot and killed the taxi driver, who had nothing to do with the drugs trade, for not waiting for him. Unfortunately, grim stories such as these have become one of the big…

Colour equals flavour, thanks to a process known as the Maillard reaction, which occurs when proteins and sugars are transformed by the application of heat. For this reason, “you always want to sear meat before putting it in a pan or into the oven”, says Charlie Crote, head chef of the Midland Grand Dining Room in London. “This builds a crust on the outside, and firms up the meat [in a good way].” It’s worth noting, though, that this technique is all about flavour; it’s sometimes said that browning meat also seals in the juices, but that’s simply not true. First up, you need a really hot pan. “Leave it on a high flame for a couple of minutes,” says Skye Gyngell, chef-patron of Spring in London, “until you see…

✱ All solutions published next week Across 1 Two pieces performed by minor player (3,4) 5 Shot into the air when excited (5,2) 9 Fine detective captures a forest creature (5) 10 Drawing a description of chessboard (3,6) 11 Old magazine spreading sick abuse (4,5) 12 Part of mainframe needs backing up – it will remove waste (5) 13 Doctor I have contracted to provide spin (5) 15 Cooking native oil is perfectly safe (9) 18 They may have boxers leave when getting into drugs? (3,6) 19 Bags, totally shorter for the younger generation (5) 21 Losing against opposition that’s game? (2,3) 23 Fire idiot with heroin – it’s rough stuff (9) 25 At home, kid gets prepared for light work (3,6) 26 Twist what he is really like at…

Across 1 Woody plant with multiple stems (4) 3 Heat-resistant fibrous fabric (8) 8 Defined area (4) 9 Not guilty (8) 11 Dog – shrew logic (anag.) (5,5) 14 Withdraw opinion (6) 15 Accompany (6) 17 Shrink’s area of expertise (10) 20 Crowded (8) 21 Tibetan leader (4) 22 Inaccurately convey (8) 23 Pale (anag.) (4) Down 1 Current (overused) neologism? (4,4) 2 Liquid protecting lover of rays (8) 4 Nosier (anag.) (6) 5 I’ll stop right there! (6,4) 6 Come down hard (4) 7 Eats (anag.) – glut (4) 10 I’m very grateful (6,1,3) 12 Housebuyer’s debt (8) 13 Triangular sheet on ship – I say salt (anag.) (8) 16 Find not guilty (6) 18 Tinned meat (4) 19 Work (4) Solution No 16,987…