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Guardian Weekly Supplements

The Guardian Weekly newspaper occasionally publishes supplements on global issues, such as aid, international development, health, diplomacy, water, trade and education. Here, you can download the most recent supplements in PDF form or read selected articles from each by following the links below.

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Year in review 2009

Wednesday December 16th 2009

Guardian journalists John Vidal, Julian Borger, Larry Elliott, Afua Hirsch, Patrick Collinson and Derek Brown sum up the year's biggest stories from around the world

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World Aids Day 2009

Tuesday November 24th 2009

Ahead of this year's WAD, we analyse whether the massive push to save the lives of a generation could become a victim of its own success

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The Guardian Weekly at 90

Wednesday July 1st 2009

On July 4 1919 the very first Guardian Weekly rolled off the presses. Read our special section, celebrating 90 years of the paper

A prince enthroned

March 1 1940: new Dalai Lamais enthroned in Lhasa

Iraqi Army in full control

July 16 1959: a parade marks the first anniversary of the Iraq revolution

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Year in Review 2008

Monday May 11th 2009

Guardian journalists sum up the year's biggest stories in the US, Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, Australia and Britain

America no longer world's sole superpower

Barack Obama's election victory will not prevent the US from only being the strongest of several world powers in a multipolar world rather than the globe's sole superpower, says Julian Borger

Earth teeters at its physical limits

It was not a great year for the environment, reports John Vidal. It became clear that climate change was already disproportionately hitting the people who can least tolerate it: the poor

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World Aids Day: fighting ignorance

Wednesday November 26th 2008

As treatment improves and death rates fall, will we tolerate an 'acceptable' infection level?

We can't afford complacency on Aids

Donor countries must keep the funds coming as hopes of a quick cure are increasingly unlikely, writes Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley

Further study into Aids

Postgraduate degrees and research programmes bring a more scientific approach to the control of HIV and Aids, writes Stephen Hoare

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Climate change and housing

Wednesday August 13th 2008

Homes are a major source of greenhouse gases, but there are ways to make a difference

Saving the world begins at home

Up to 25% of energy use is in homes, but simple efficiency measures can easily cut this by 40%, write David Adam and Paul Evans

Young builders shape the zero-carbon home

Trainees learn to lower labour and energy costs and to focus on lower material wastage, finds Stephen Hoare

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Climate change and technology

Wednesday June 25th 2008

The race is on to find fossil fuels and come up with ways to reduce their impact

Can clean coal save the earth?

Carbon capture may be the technological answer to a power-hungry planet, but a change in consumption is the long-term solution, writes John Vidal

Storing CO2 under the sea

Leading climate scientist Wallace S Broecker challenges Greenpeace's preventative stance against deep-ocean CO2 storage

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Special focus on Congo

Thursday June 12th 2008

A survey of development, security and governance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Can Congo hope for peace?

The DRC was looted by Belgians and the corrupt Mobutu. Then came ethnic conflict. Chris McGreal and the Washington Post's Stephanie McCrummen ask whether Congo can ever achieve stability

Hate passes down the generations

Teenage Hutu soldiers are too young to remember Rwanda, but they want to fight their way back there, reports Chris McGreal

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Switching on: Connecting the world

Wednesday May 14th 2008

We look at how new technologies are improving the lives of people around the world in this special report for World Telecommunication and Information Society Day

Technology in developing nations

Many third-world countries are being transformed by the introduction and affordability of mobile phones and the internet, writes Charles Arthur

Digital opportunities

We should be assisting the disabled 10% of the world’s population to plug into the information age and the technological advantages it brings, says the UN telecoms agency. Guy Clapperton reports

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Every drop counts: the politics of water

Wednesday March 19th 2008

In a special report for World Water Day, we look at the global problem of poor sanitation and what governments are proposing to do about it

Thousands die from lack of sanitation

More than 1 billion people have no access to clean water, reports John Vidal. Polls of the poor prove that sewage is their top priority, but in many potential donor nations, toilets are still taboo

Gaza's tank is emptying

Since Israel blocked the electricity supply to Gaza last June, water and sanitation systems in the area are failing. Human rights groups warn of inevitable outbreaks of water-borne diseases and mass dehydration, writes Annie Kelly