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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.

Find our summary archive below with links to the original pieces; sign up for our free newsletter Overheard to receive new summaries of articles from around the world as they come in each week; and recommend articles that have caught your eye by writing or messaging us direct.

When a city loses its name

Fifteen years after Masan, Jinhae and Changwon were merged into a single “megacity”, residents still grapple with the loss of their local identities and autonomy
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Danish dating gets the ick

Exploring the fine line between charm and cringe
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Africa’s place in the far right imagination

How the continent figures in global reactionary thought as both resource frontier and ideological battleground
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Cabo Delgado’s forgotten daughters

In Mozambique’s war-torn north, girls fleeing conflict face a second nightmare inside displacement camps meant to protect them
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AI-generated Indigenous elders

In Brazil, a digital deception combines artificial intelligence with colonial mythmaking, all in the name of profit
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Polish students are getting smarter

Student protesters in Poland are using direct action to force universities to make small – but significant – changes
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The “invisible” degradation of Greece’s groundwater

A precious but overlooked resource is at risk of being permanently depleted
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“All that glitters is not gold”

A new wave of luxury resorts is soaking up limited water resources in the already drought-prone Italian South
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Rewriting reality

How Ruwiki is quietly erasing war crimes, legitimising occupation and remapping Ukraine in Moscow’s image
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Shades of grey

AI-driven colourisation is transforming historical film footage, but could it also distort the past?
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Housing for all? Korea’s quiet experiment

The collapse of the long-term lease system has left many Koreans exposed to unexpected risks
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Shamate: The tribe of Chinese migrant workers

How a generation of rural migrants found belonging in impossible hairstyles and neon dye
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