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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.

The invisible borderland

Fifty years after a treaty to draw the border between Italy and Yugoslavia, a local newspaper investigates
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When memory is resistance

A daughter remembers her father's disappearance
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Beauty and martyrdom

How aesthetic pressure sickens and isolates gay men
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Who moved my job?

As global tech giants shed jobs and AI transforms workflows, India’s IT industry faces a historic reckoning
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The Egyptian border’s cruel economy of exploitation

An expansive cross-border investigation into the brutality facing refugees from the war in Sudan
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Kadyrov’s battle for Russia’s 500-Ruble note

As Russia redesigns its currency, Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov wages a symbolic war for visibility
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Women at the frontline of Taiwan’s democratic renewal

From homemakers to activists, how Taiwanese women are reshaping civic power
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Denmark’s fractured family

The myth of unity between Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands conceals a deep and uneasy divide
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Faith in the feed

A Dutch report on how Gen Z is finding God through the algorithm
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Looking beyond El Ramillete

Mexico’s invisible workforce and the cycle of exploitation that feeds the country’s agricultural boom
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Between silence and belonging

The struggle of Kosovo’s Ashkali community to name themselves in a country that rarely asks who they are
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Entertainment for sale?

Questions grow about whether Saudi Arabia is fostering real art or merely spectacle in service of the state
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