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44 Databases Found for:News, International

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The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources. Over 4,500 news sources are included. Each provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded.

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Founded in 1875, al-Ahram was nationalized and became Egypt's newspaper of record in 1960.
Coverage from 1875-2020.

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AP Images: Over 3.5 million news photographs from the 1840s through today. Also includes maps, timelines, logos and graphs. AP Interactives: A collection of multimedia content from the archives of the Associated Press. Interactives are fully-licensed for educational use.

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The AP Newsroom collection features more than 3.5 million historical and contemporary images to help your audiences connect with the story.

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Alternate Name(s):theatlantic.com

The Atlantic is a news magazine with coverage that spans current affairs, politics, science, literature, technology, culture, and the economy.
Coverage: 1857-present.
** Access limited to current AU students, faculty, and staff. **

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Alternate Name(s):Bloomberg, Businessweek
First time users: Create an account by visiting the Bloomberg registration page. Enter your @american.edu email address, then enter the verification code.
Bloomberg.com is a news source that provides global news and analysis, as well as focused business-specific coverage on companies, industries and markets. Includes access to Bloomberg Businessweek articles. Does not include the securities and financial information that can be found on the Bloomberg Terminal Workstations in Bender Library and the Kogod FSIT lab.

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Alternate Name(s):Canadian Newsstand Complete
Canadian Newsstream offers unparalleled access to over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers providing full-text access to articles, columns and features as far back as the late 1970s.
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Alternate Name(s):Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, Current Digest of the Soviet Press

English translations of news articles published in the Soviet Union and Russia from 1949 to 2010. Includes translations of Soviet government documents, laws and treaties, five-year plans and reports of their implementation, as well as speeches by leaders.
Note that we do not have access to The Current Digest of the Russian Press, 2011-present.

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Authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion.
Includes mobile app and subscriber-only podcasts and events.
For quick access, click on the link above.
For a personalized experience or in the app, visit https://www.economist.com/, select the option to Log In, choose SSO, and select American University Library (not American University) from the list of institutions.

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A collection of current full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, scholarly journals on ethnicities and ethnic studies, and historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

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A major source of newspapers, web news, and industry news, containing 28,000 sources from over 200 countries in 23 languages. Includes Wall Street Journal television transcripts and newswires. Includes company profiles.

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The latest UK and international business, finance, economic and political news, commentary and analysis from the Financial Times.
** Registration required. Only current AU students, faculty, and staff are eligible to register for and access FT.com **
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The Financial Times provides international business, finance, economic and political news, commentary and analysis. This archive is a complete, fully searchable facsimile edition of the FT. It offers the complete run of the London edition of the newspaper, from its first issue to the end of 2021.
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Alternate Name(s):foreignaffairs.com
Magazine covering international relations and U.S. foreign policy.
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The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports are U.S. government transcriptions and translations of radio broadcasts from foreign countries. Annexes comprise an additional 7,000 transcripts to the Daily Reports. The modern successor to the FBIS Daily Reports is the World News Connection.

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Reporting and analysis on global affairs, foreign policy, and international relations.
Copy and paste this URL in an incognito tab and click register to be able to register for events or email alerts: https://foreignpolicy.com?AmericanU

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Guangming Ribao is the official Chinese newspaper and has the longest publication history of any newspaper in China. Database provides access to full content from 1946-2017.

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An Israeli newspaper providing English language news from Israel and the Middle East.

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International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.

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Alternate Name(s):LatinNews

Political, economic, security and strategic news and analysis on countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes the Latin American Weekly Report (1967 to present), the Latin American Regional Reports, and other reports. Some of the publications are also available in Spanish.

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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Le Monde (1944-2000)

Considered one of the newspapers of record for France and one of the best-known and most influential publications in the world, this French-language newspaper was created at the request of General Charles de Gaulle as the German army was vacating Paris during World War II.

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A collection of streaming video from the March of Time newsreel series, produced by Time, Inc. from 1935-1967. The newsreels include reporting, location shots, and dramatic reenactment of events, and have a subjective point of view. Videos are fully transcribed and cross-searchable by subject, historical event, people, and more.

Concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora. Register for the daily newsletter using your AU email address.

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The official newspaper of the former Deutsche Demokratische Republik from 1946 until reunification, the paper continues publishing as one of Germany's national dailies, offering contemporary Communist and Socialist perspectives. The Digital Archive provides access to all content from 1946 to the end of the previous calendar year.

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Alternate Name(s):New York Tribune

The Tribune, founded by Horace Greeley, contained influential editorials on abolition, and other major issues such as the settlement of the West. In addition to politics and reform, this newspaper also reported on the arts, New York society, sports, business and finance, and is useful for researching key events of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Access to the New York Times from 1851 to 2017.

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Alternate Name(s):nytimes.com, NY Times, NYT

First time users: Follow the instructions in the library's account registration guide.
Access to the website of the New York Times - one of the world's leading newspapers.
Includes access to the New York Times InEducation curated reading lists.
Click the Log In button and sign in to access full news content 1981-present.

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Alternate Name(s):Lexis, LexisNexis, LexisNexis Academic

An excellent source of up-to-date news, business and legal information. News stories date back to the late 1970s. U.S. and international sources are available for most content areas. Includes Company Dossier content.

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Pravda ("Truth") was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991. Founded in 1912, Pravda originated as an underground daily workers’ newspaper and became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement. Today, Pravda still remains the official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, an important political faction in contemporary Russian politics.

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Most recent 2 months of over 400 U.S. and international newspapers, many in foreign languages. All newspapers are in their entirety and are available on the day they are published.

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Project Syndicate provides access to original commentaries by prominent political leaders, policy makers, scholars, business leaders, and civic activists from around the world to readers everywhere.
** Users must register for a personal account. ** When prompted on the database landing page, search for 'American University' to proceed with authentication.
Already registered? Visit https://www.project-syndicate.org/account/login and log in with your AU email address and the password you created when you registered.

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Digital archive of French newspapers from the collections of the Biblioteque Nationale de France. Date coverage is 1630 to 1951. You can search the entire collection (in French) or visit one of the curated collections on popular topics, for example, King Tut or the Modern Woman.

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Independent Russian media archived from the year 2000 through the present day from over 44 news sources. Includes original text and translations of articles. Provides perspectives outside of mainstream Russian media.

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Provides global intelligence news and analysis.

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The complete London Times newspaper with coverage from 1785 and rolling forward one year each year from 2019.
Note: This resource does not include the Sunday Times, a publication separate from the London Times.
This resource was made possible through the Lee Somers Endowed Library Fund. endowment smart growth graphic

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Widely read English language newspaper from India, purported to be the largest-selling English language daily in the world. The Archive includes preceding titles, the Bombay times and Journal of Commerce and The Bombay Times and Standard. Coverage from 1838 to 2010.

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The is the complete French newspapers holdings of the British Library from 1939 to 1945. They were acquired through intelligence, clandestine and neutral sources. This collection constitutes the sum of the French press that reached Britain during the German Occupation of France from 1940 to 1944.

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Alternate Name(s):WSJ, wsj.com

NEW! Registration required! Please click on the database link for instructions on registering for or reactivating your AU-sponsored account.
Once your account is activated, sign in on https://www.wsj.com/ to access.
Full access to the Wall Street Journal, with global coverage of business and financial news, in addition to national and international news. Includes English, Chinese, and Japanese editions.

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News from non-U.S. news sources from 1995 to 2013 in English or translated into English by the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Center (OSC). It is the continuation of the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).

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A collection of digitized newspapers from Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The papers are in English or other European languages.

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A collection of digitized newspapers from Latin America in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The papers are in Spanish or English, with a few in Portuguese.

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A collection of newspapers from Latin America, mostly from the nineteenth century. The papers are in Spanish or English with a few in Portuguese.

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A collection of digitized newspapers from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Papers are mostly in English with a few in Bengali and one in Gujarati.

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Captures full runs of many of the key international newsreels produced during the early twentieth century. These films, produced from 1929 right through to the early post-war period, provide a unique - and until now largely neglected - resource that will give scholars a real insight into how people learned about, and lived through the events that occurred during this period of history.

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