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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.

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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Brick by brick

How mutual-aid construction has helped thousands of working-class families secure homes while limiting real-estate speculation in Uruguay
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Slow death in Diyala

Illegal landfills in eastern Iraq expose residents to toxic smoke and disease as environmental laws go unenforced.
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The ‘uberisation’ of psychology in Brazil

Digital platforms promising affordable mental health care are pushing psychologists into precarious gig-style work
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The cyberslaves of Bamban

A daring escape from a Philippine scam compound exposes the global system of digital fraud built on torture, corruption and modern slavery
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Protein, pork and power

How food culture is being weaponised by the far right, from raw-egg masculinity to nationalist school meal policies in Sweden
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The desert city holding back a war

In Mauritania’s far southeast, a refugee camp of nearly 300,000 people has become both sanctuary and buffer zone between Mali’s collapse and Europe’s borders
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Norway is running out of gas (stations)

The country’s main newspaper takes a trip down memory highway
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Inside a Georgian call centre scam

An exposé of the $35 million scam operation that left a global trail of broken lives
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Shein in Paris

A French investigation dissects the controversial alliance between Shein and BHV owner Frédéric Merlin
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When the whistleblower becomes the prisoner

How a Chinese videographer who documented Xinjiang’s detention facilities found himself facing deportation from the United States
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The yellow secret of Georgian chicken

How unregulated synthetic additives are used to artificially yellow chickens in Georgia
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