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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.

Cracks beneath the surface

Why West Java’s tremors – felt from the city of Bandung to Bekasi – demand urgent attention to Indonesia’s fault lines
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Workers of all nations, relax!

Аn essay explores how 20th-century socialism brought tourism to the masses in Eastern and Central Europe
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Elite youth sports have become “synonymous with violence”

Accusations of child abuse committed by a top figure skating coach in Russia are sparking a conversation worldwide
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Beats of conspiracy

French rapper Freeze Corleone embodies how conspiracy theories and recycled anti-Masonic tropes seep into youth culture through underground rap
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From leper colony to legend

Preserving the legacy of the charismatic troubadour of Equatorial Guinea
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Curtains on risk

How Italy's public theatre is being steered towards safety at the expense of creativity
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Vanishing words, vanishing worlds

How climate change erodes languages alongside landscapes
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What 10-year-olds see on their phones

From hypnotic sludge videos to violent clips and beauty tutorials, a trip into Dutch children’s social media feeds
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A death trade under the banner of weight loss and weight gain

In Tunisia, unregulated “miracle” supplements smuggled in from Algeria promise rapid weight changes but leave behind a trail of illness and death
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Breaking barriers, building bridges

The story of Basque grassroots association helping migrants cross the frontier between Spain and France
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When you come from outside, you approach things differently

Finnish street art’s unconventional champion talks about breaking norms, building bridges and giving walls a second life
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God has gone south

A window into the overlooked history of the the exodus of Vietnam’s Catholic minority from North to South after French withdrawal
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