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History of Guardian Weekly
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The Guardian Weekly editor Will Dean on the transformation of our century-old international weekly newspaper into a weekly news magazine -
For almost a century, the Guardian Weekly has carried the Guardian’s liberal news voice to a global readership. Taken from the GNM archives, these pictures chart the paper’s life and times from 1919 to the present day -
Since the end of the first world war, the Weekly has delivered the liberal Guardian perspective to a global readership
In pictures
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More than 10,000 artists, craftspeople and revellers take part in the carnival, a fusion of different cultural celebrations. It takes place every year from 2 to 7 January in the city of Pasto and is on Unesco’s intangible heritage list -
Workers known as guajeros descend daily to search for recyclable items at one of the biggest rubbish dumps in Guatemala City. Hundreds carry out the work which is dangerous due to mud slides and collapses, but can earn them nearly twice the minimum daily wage
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The inauguration of the Brazilian president took place in Brasilia -
For weeks before the annual winter festival in Harbin, China, workers collect and transport to the site nearly 200,000 cubic metres of ice cut from the frozen Songhua River -
Photos from London, New York, Paris, Moscow, Sydney and elsewhere as major cities ring in 2019 -
From an eruption of Kilauea volcano sending lava into residential areas to deadly wildfires in California, the US saw record-breaking natural disasters in 2018
Regulars
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This reader finally found the Guardian Weekly in a small Surrey village -
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts -
China’s shaping of history; Chávez and Venezuela
Puzzles
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The Norwegian world No 1 made up for a poor showing in the rapid by dominating the blitz in St Petersburg while England’s Gawain Jones failed to sustain a mid-tournament surge -
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Glasgow is home to the largest population of travelling showpeople in Europe - but their yards are increasingly under threat
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Tests negative for patient who had returned from Burundi and was treated in isolation -
Trio arrested in London on US charges as calls grow for debt claim against Mozambique to be dropped -
Culture
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As independent bookshop numbers rise for the second year in a row after 20 years of decline, we want to hear about your favourites -
After a tiny increase in 2017, figures show their ranks swelled by 15 stores last year in the face of ‘an increasingly challenging landscape’ -
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Long reads
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Saifullah Paracha, the oldest prisoner in Guantánamo Bay, will probably die in detention without ever being charged. His son is currently in a US prison. Both have been in custody for almost 15 years, accused of aiding al-Qaida. But did they? -
The long read: If you’re worrying about the amount of protein in your diet, then you’re almost certainly eating more than enough -
The long read: Sedentary lifestyles are killing us – we need to build activity into our everyday lives, not just leave it for the gym
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