The Guardian Weekly - November 08, 2024
The Guardian Weekly - November 08, 2024
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November 08, 2024
A tide of horror
Residents of Utiel in the Valencia region describe how they escaped rising waters, and the devastation left behind by unprecedented rain
5 mins
An'everyday apocalypse' Cop must face up to climate car crash
Move on. Nothing to see here. Just another ordinary, everyday apocalypse.
4 mins
A predictable result Here's how the winner of the election did it
Whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris prevails in the contest, it won't feel hard to explain why the outcome was inevitable
4 mins
Hey big spenders This election at least solved the riddle of how to fritter away $1bn
It was one of the most striking images of the final full week of the presidential election campaign: a giant projection of Kamala Harris's face on the 111-metre-tall Las Vegas Sphere.
2 mins
Ban on vital Unrwa aid could spell disaster
Bin bags were piling up at one end of the chaotic main thoroughfare in Shuafat refugee camp last Friday morning as shoppers walked by, stepping over a stream of wastewater trickling from a nearby drainpipe. Poor sanitation is just one of the UN-administered Palestinian camp's problems - but things will get much worse.
4 mins
Total siege Fears Israel plans to seize land in Gaza
Israel has tightened its siege of northern Gaza in the face of warnings from the UN and other aid agencies that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian lives at are risk, raising questions over whether the Netanyahu government’s ultimate war aims include territorial expansion.
2 mins
A brave investment? Rachel Reeves's first budget is a radical departure after years of constraint
Labour's first UK budget in almost 15 years marked a radical departure with past constraints on investment spending.
3 mins
Deep blue Badenoch faces multiple challenges as Tory leader
Kemi Badenoch might have avoided the cursed 52%-48% ratio that has riven the Conservative party before, but the nevertheless close-run nature of her 56.5% tally in the members' vote for the party's new leader shows the scale of the task before her.
2 mins
A new enemy Inexperienced North Korean troops prepare to enter conflict
Depending on whom you ask, they are the boost that Russian forces need to make a significant breakthrough in Ukraine, or they are simple cannon fodder, destined for repatriation in body bags.
2 mins
'It's better not to try our luck again'
Why voters back political forces that favour closer ties with Moscow, despite seeing their nations' future in the EU
3 mins
Reality bites in the Himalayan 'kingdom of happiness'
High emigration and youth unemployment levels belie the mountain nation's global reputation for cheeriness
5 mins
'A civil war' Gangs step up assault on capital
Armed fighters advance into neighbourhoods at the heart of Port-au-Prince as authorities try to restore order
3 mins
Lost Maya city revealed through laser mapping
After swapping machetes and binoculars for computer screens and laser mapping, a team of researchers have discovered a lost Maya city containing temple pyramids, enclosed plazas and a reservoir which had been hidden for centuries by the Mexican jungle.
2 mins
Trudeau faces 'iceberg revolt'as calls grow for PM to quit
Justin Trudeau, who promised “sunny ways” as he won an election on a wave of public fatigue with an incumbent Conservative government, is now facing his darkest and most uncertain political moment as he attempts to defy the odds to win a rare fourth term.
3 mins
Rumbled How Ali ran rings around apartheid, 50 years ago
Fifty years ago, in a corner of white South Africa, Muhammad Ali already seemed a miracle-maker.
3 mins
I see you
What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads? A new clinical trial reveals some surprising results
10+ mins
'What will people think? I don't care any more'
At 90, Alan Bennett has written a sex-fuelled novella set in a home for the elderly. He talks about mourning Maggie Smith, turning down a knighthood and what he makes of the new UK prime minister
10+ mins
A surplus of billionaires is destabilising our democracies Zoe Williams
The concept of \"elite overproduction\" was developed by social scientist Peter Turchin around the turn of this century to describe something specific: too many rich people for not enough rich-person jobs.
4 mins
I hoped Finland would be a progressive dream.I've had to think again Mike Watson
Oulu is five hours north from Helsinki by train and a good deal colder and darker each winter than the Finnish capital. From November to March its 220,000 residents are lucky to see daylight for a couple of hours a day and temperatures can reach the minus 30s. However, this is not the reason I sense a darkening of the Finnish dream that brought me here six years ago.
3 mins
Finn family murals
The optimism that runs through Finnish artist Tove Jansson's Moomin stories also appears in her public works, now on show in a Helsinki exhibition
4 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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