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Summariess

Every week, we publish three summaries of longer articles which have caught our eye in media beyond the Anglosphere, selected and summarised by our team, regular contributors, and guest editors – including stories recommended to us by you, our readers.

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Glotto politics with Sophia Smith Galer

Welcome to Glottopolitics, Translator’s new monthly bulletin curating stories about language politics from around the world. I’m Sophia Smith Galer and I’m the author of How To Kill A Language. I write and

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Why is no one listening to French students?

A small French media outlet is – and it turns out they have a lot to say It’s been nearly a month since students across France have taken to the

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Postcard from a ghost village

Five years since a volcanic eruption erased the town of Todoque, is there a chance to build a different future?
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No room to wait

How the disappearance of waiting rooms in Italy’s train stations is the latest symptom of the country’s neoliberal turn
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Mining the archive

How an American company tried to get hold of century-old colonial geological records
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The terror that came from the sky

The deadly, destructive flood in Nepal must prompt the country to look inwards at its own model of development, argues a Nepali writer
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Downstream from prosperity

An Indonesian reporter speaks to flood victims who blame a nearby nickel project for destroying their homes and farms
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Not just another warehouse fire

As warehouses inch closer to residential areas, a South Korean journalist looks into the safety and social concerns of this urban transformation
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In Russia, phone scams can kill

A spate of deaths connected to phone scams have been reported in Russia. The law is struggling to keep up.
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Fighting over eggs in India

Ingredients in a school lunch programme for kids are sowing divisions along caste and religious lines
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Russia and Armenia: the other trade war

From brandy to blossoms, Moscow has embargoed a sweeping array of Armenian produce as relations between the ex-allies go sour
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The foreign mothers fighting for child custody in Iraq

A Daraj Media investigation explores how residency rules, custody laws and legal loopholes can leave mothers separated from their children
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