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The
WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
News
Search Engines, Gateways, and Aggregators
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 Schools Berkman
Center for Internet & Society, a research think-tank focused on
the Internets 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.
Other
News Sources
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.
Copyright © 1997-2008 Wayne A. Selcher.
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This directory is edited and maintained by
Professor Wayne A. Selcher
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