As the Guardian Weekly went to press this week, a clear picture of Monday’s sickening terror attack in Manchester was only just emerging. You’ll find plenty of coverage and reaction inside the paper, along with poignant reflections on the city’s enduring spirit from columnist Owen Jones. More details will follow in the coming days, and you can catch up with the latest developments on the Guardian’s website.
Our other main story this week goes behind the scenes at Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, where leaked documents reveal the company’s struggle to effectively moderate some of the more extreme instances of content posted by its 2 billion users worldwide. As the company comes under increasing political pressure, our head of investigations Nick Hopkins reports.
Donald Trump began his first overseas trip as US president with visits to Saudi Arabia and Israel. While Iran’s moderate reformist president Hassan Rouhani was celebrating a convincing election victory, Trump reaffirmed his administration’s intent to align itself alongside the Sunni Arabic world and against Tehran. There’s news, analysis and comment from the Middle East.
A notoriously reluctant traveller, Trump may none the less have been relieved to fly out of the US last Friday after another week of damaging domestic revelations, which included the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the inquiry into his team’s alleged links with Russia. We bring you up to speed with another dizzying week in Washington.
In Sydney, 50 years after Australia’s Indigenous peoples were granted “citizenship”, many are asking what, if anything, has really changed. Across the Tasman Sea, we find out how New Zealand’s rugby-mad population are putting up touring fans of the British and Irish Lions as hotel prices skyrocket.
In Mexico, the murder of a well-known journalist by a drug cartel prompted anger and soul-searching. Brazil’s government faced a new crisis after president Michel Temer was implicated in an alleged bribery scandal.
This week’s Weekly Review takes a road trip along the route of the Keystone XL oil pipeline in the northern US, where Oliver Laughland meets supporters and opponents of the highly controversial project. Also in North America, the Discovery pages consider the damaging effects that climate change may be having on the continent’s migratory birds.
In Books, a new memoir from the radical former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is received enthusiastically by Guardian columnist Paul Mason. Culture has a revealing interview with the famously limelight-shy British film director Ridley Scott.
Horse racing fans will enjoy the extended interview on the Sports pages with Australian jockey Michelle Payne, who broke down gender barriers while winning the Melbourne Cup in 2015 and who is aiming to repeat the trick in Britain at Royal Ascot.
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