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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.

Special Period II

How Cuba is faring in its economic war with the US, and what it bodes for the future of the island’s regime
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Lebanon’s slow motion “cancer tsunami”

Rising cancer rates expose a web of pollution and public health failure in Lebanon
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Spatially challenged

The director of the European Space Agency explains how Europe is both behind, and ahead, in space
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How do you say “apostasy” in Polish?

A magazine in Poland explores the increasingly common phenomenon of believers formally abandoning their Catholic faith
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Forest and faith in Mentawai

How Indigenous life and spirituality remain bound to forests undergoing ecological and political pressure in Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands
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Ashes to ashes

How the discovery of 17 tombs from the Iron Age has sparked the curiosity of archaeologists in a small village of rural Navarre
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A Christian book boom in Norway

A new wave of writing reflects rising interest in Christianity amid uncertainty and political contestation
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Telegrams from the front

Since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainian use of the Russian-invented Telegram has skyrocketed
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When greed erases cultural memory

A battle over the fate of the iconic Théâtre de Beyrouth has laid bare a broken legal system that consistently privileges investor greed over cultural memory
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Young Slovaks abroad navigate opportunity and belonging

How work, language and identity shape life abroad for young Slovaks
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Mothers for hire

How Colombia has turned into a “paradise for reproductive tourism”
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Global giants are tearing up Greece’s remaining wild mountains

A $1 billion Amazon-backed wind farm is tearing through Northern Greece’s untouched Vermio mountains
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