The Guardian Weekly - August 23, 2024
The Guardian Weekly - August 23, 2024
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In this issue
August 23, 2024
Zelenskiy's gamble
The Ukrainian president's hope that invading Russia's Kursk region would force Moscow to redeploy troops away from the eastern front was a risky move-and the outcome is far from clear
4 mins
Blame game Locals angry at army after Ukrainian incursion
Shock, disbelief and fury that the government downplayed the threat of an invasion and failed to keep its citizens safe
3 mins
Flipping the narrative The Kursk attack has humiliated Putin and broken the stalemate
When video footage of the Ukrainian incursion into Russia's Kursk region began appearing on social media, a joke started doing the rounds with Vladimir Putin asking Stalin what he should do about the German tanks rolling towards Kursk.
3 mins
Gaza's true death toll concealed beneath the rubble
Dalia Hawas was 24 years old when in February an Israeli airstrike flattened the apartment building where she lived, burying the young mother with her 10-month-old daughter, Mona.
4 mins
Slow progress Leaders still believe there is more to gain by fighting on
With the most recent round of talks over, hopes of a ceasefire in Gaza in the immediate future look to have been dashed.
2 mins
'A real hero' The brave migrant who tackled a London attacker
After saving young girl, Abdullah talks about his love for the UK, despite fears during the recent riots
3 mins
Scholars seek to prolong the German conversation
When Londoner Amber Tallon, 30, started learning German at the age of 12, she \"took to it like a duck to water\", she said.
2 mins
Going viral What is mpox and why has it been declared a global health emergency?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the latest mpox outbreak in Africa a \"public health emergency of international concern\", the category used in the past for Ebola outbreaks and Covid-19. As fears of a global spread grow, this is what we know.
2 mins
Ode to joy Harris gives Democrats a reason to reunite
Tens of thousands of Democrats descended on Chicago this week for their party's convention, bubbling with a feeling few had anticipated: pure joy.
3 mins
Guns and drugs fuel 'alarming epidemic' of violence
The last thing Raquel Rodriguez remembers of that afternoon is that she was playing with her neighbour's baby outside her home in the Trinidad and Tobago neighbourhood of Barataria in San Juan. Then came a piercingly loud explosion.
3 mins
That sinking feeling
The sad Oompa-Loompa at Willy's Chocolate Experience, an elf at a lowrent Lapland, the DJ who tried to save Blobbyland and a fixer at the ill-fated Fyre festival reveal what happened next after four truly disastrous events
10+ mins
Audrey Tang didn't have the easiest of starts in life. THE GOOD HACKER
As an activist turned politician, Audrey Tang is used to breaking boundaries. Now, the world's first minister for digital affairs wants the world to learn how to detoxify the internet
10+ mins
We should enjoy this child's creativity rather than use it to sell stuff
If you've ever spent £40 ($50) and a whole weekend trying to paint out the scrawling of your young children from your rental walls in the futile hope that this will save your £1,300 deposit, you may greet the following news as I did: with a noise somewhere between a hotwater bottle being emptied and a cry of pain.
3 mins
Harris is off to a dream start-but it's too early to count out Trump Jonathan Freedland
Everything is going right for her and wrong for him. Kamala Harris has the encouraging poll numbers and the momentum. Donald Trump has the serial errors, the maudlin introspection and wobbling campaign team.
3 mins
The Guardian Weekly Newspaper Description:
Publisher: Guardian News & Media
Category: Newspaper
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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