News Sources

Altavista News-- International news constantly updated, searchable and accessible by top headlines and by topic, region, country, and time period, with archives.

Diplomacy Monitor-- From the St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami, a fine searchable site that tracks, almost in real-time, online diplomatic communiqués, press briefings, and related official documents worldwide in several languages, with breakouts by issue, region, and nation-to-nation interaction, including in human rights issues.

EINnews-- Very useful global news service for "access to breaking news that is organized within 260+ country, regional, U.S. States and specialized topic sections. EINnews content is derived from monitoring over 4,000 different online sources."

Financial Times-- The famous international business newspaper from London has a really useful search facility, giving access to articles from top source periodicals worldwide.

Global Voices-- "An international, volunteer-led project that collects, summarizes, and gives context to some of the best self-published content found on blogs, podcasts, photo sharing sites, and videoblogs from around the world, with a particular emphasis on countries outside of Europe and North America." "A non-profit project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society."

Google News-- Excellent portal draws news from thousands of English-language sources worldwide, using Google full-text search technology for constant real-time updating, allowing users to scan headlines and to search in depth. Has searchable archives. International versions of Google News allow country and language-specific searches.

MagPortal-- Well-structured, large, searchable, annotated directory of free magazine articles online, including those in international affairs topics.

MetaGrid-- Directory and search engine for thousands of newspapers and magazines online, by topic, country, or world region.

MSN News Search-- From the Microsoft Network, "with content from thousands of news services, News Search gives you the scoop on the latest events and news stories from around the web."

World News Network-- Excellent, highly-rated gateway to a very large number of World News Network online news sources worldwide (including specialized ones), by region, country, and topics of coverage, plus links to other local (mainly) English-language news sources.

Yahoo! provides worldwide "Full Coverage" of major events, by region, with related links and search facility.

•  ABC News International Section-- News from this major American TV network.

•  Abyz News Links-- Links to many thousands of newspapers and other news sources from around the world, those with news content of widespread interest.

•  AllYouCanRead.com-- Searchable directory to access online magazines and newspapers from around the world, by country and category, some free and some with fee.

•  Australian Newspapers Online-- From the National Library of Australia, a comprehensive links directory by title, state, and town.

•  BBC News Online-- World news from one of the most trusted sources, in print, audio, and video. Note the World Service section in many languages and the World Service Newshour (in audio, for live reports on world news).

•  CNN Interactive--World News-- World news and weather from the Cable News Network, including special editions and several languages for the main world regions in CNN  International. See and hear news broadcasts at CNN Video.

•  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-- News from a prestigious source, with much audio and video available.

•  Christian Science Monitor-- Excellent online content from an award-winning U.S. daily with an international perspective.

•  Economist-- The outstanding global news weekly from London, with library and searchable archives. Their Global Agenda feature is a concise analysis of major international issues and events. Note the Country Briefings, summaries with "articles from The Economist, background profiles, forecasts and statistics from the Economist Intelligence Unit, market and currency updates, newswires and links," and the Country Surveys.

•  eFinancial News-- Electronic edition of Financial News, an excellent source for European financial news.

•  Environmental News Network-- Excellent for news, features, multimedia, and special reports.

•  EuroNews-- European news and weather in several languages from EuroNews, a European public broadcasters network.

• Global Security Newswire-- From the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the National Journal Group, daily news and analysis on nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, terrorism and related issues, with summaries and links to key articles from news media around the world plus original reporting from Washington and elsewhere.

•  InsideWorld News-- "Collection of country and region web sites providing local news and information to a worldwide audience," with free daily e-mail service on country of your choice. Also offers country portals, country information, and other such links.

•  Institute for War & Peace Reporting-- News, analysis, reports, media programs, free e-mail bulletins, and links about current world conflicts.

•  International Herald Tribune-- This excellent news source from Paris bills itself as "the world's daily newspaper."

•  Inter Press Service-- World news stressing developing countries, from a "global news agency producing independent news and analysis about events and global processes affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples and nations, especially in the [global] South." Focus of the site is on civil society and the South, development issues, globalization, and those excluded from it.

•  KIOSKEN-- "Links to news media all over the world, mainly to newspapers in the countries' own language(s)."

•  Le Monde Diplomatique-- World-renown French language newspaper; this link is to the English-language edition with searchable archives.

•  New Europe-- "The European weekly, published since 1993, is a unique product carrying news and analyses from 49 countries with a particular emphasis on the EU institutions and EU-World relations."

•  New York Times-- Fine searchable international section. Site posts a free searchable archive of full-text NYT news items back to 1851. Note the Times College Web Site with features (some international) for students and faculty.

•  News Link-- Very good links to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations, and news services around the world, from "an academic and professional research and consulting firm studying electronic publishing and visual journalism."

•  Newspaperindex-- Presents the most important online newspapers in most countries of the world. All newspapers listed have "websites with free public access that have a local editorial staff of independent journalists and in most cases a print version as well."

•  Online Newspapers.com-- A global listing of thousands, by country, from Web Wombat, an Australian search engine company.

•  Overseas Security Advisory Council-- From the U.S. Department of State, advisories on security-related issues around the world including "Travel Advisories, Public Announcements, daily security related news articles, overseas reports on security and crime incidents, terrorist group profiles, significant anniversary dates, general crime information for cities and countries, locations and contacts at U.S. posts overseas, and updates on new or unusual situations."

•  Paperboy-- Excellent source, with thousands of links by prestige, country, news agency, audio, special topics.

•  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty-- "Daily report of developments in Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, based on news gathered by the correspondents, services and regional specialists of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty," whose mission is "to provide uncensored news and information to countries where a free press is either banned by the government or not fully established."

•  Reuters-- Top world and business news stories from this prestigious agency.

•  Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs-- A daily compendium of links to carefully selected items on security issues in the world press, from the Canadian Forces College.

•  Time -- The prestigious American weekly news magazine, available online in several editions-- United States, Europe, Asia, and South Pacific.

•  Today's Front Pages-- Unusual offering from the Newseum (USA), hundreds of today's front pages from newspapers from dozens of countries, enlargeable and with links to the web sites of those papers.

•  Voice of America News-- News and special reports, printed and audio (in scores of languages), from this U.S. government international service.

•  Washington Post World Section-- With regional news pages, and searchable by countries, topics, or keywords. Also check out the Search the World page for access by country and other features. Note the interactive PostGlobal feature, "an experiment in global, collaborative journalism, a running discussion of important issues among dozens of the world's best-known editors and writers. It aims to create a truly global dialogue, drawing on independent journalists in the countries where news is happening."

•  Watching America-- "Discover What the World Thinks About U.S." with English language translations of foreign press commentary about the United States and its foreign policy, from around the world and with links to the original sources.

•  World-Newspapers-- Searchable directory of online English-language newspapers and news sites around the world, by country, plus magazines by type.