Starting Points

PBS Newshour for students
Country Briefings (Economist)
BBC World News Headlines
New York Times World Headlines
New and ongoing conflicts (Google)

General Reference

• UN Homepage
• CIA FACTBOOK
• Country Studies (Library of Congress)

General World News Sites

• CNN
• The New York Times
• The Washington Post
• The International Herald Tribune
• BBC
• PBS
• Christian Science Monitor
• Economist
• Newspapers from around the world

Topics

Regions

Human Rights

• Human Rights Watch
• Amnesty International
• United Nations- Human Rights

Global Warming

• Global Warming (Google cache)
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

Iraq

• The Middle East Media Research Institute
• RUSI- Iraqi Information Portal
• Christian Science Monitor-Iraq in Transition
• US Report on Middle East

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

• Nonviolence.org: Israel Palestine and Lebanon
• PBS Newshour: Israel-Palestinian Conflict
• If Americans Knew

HIV/ AIDs Epidemic

• AIDS & Africa
• BBC News- Orphaned Children and AIDs
• AVERT
• Time Magazine- AIDS in Africa
• The Washington Post- AIDS and Africa

Africa

• One World-Africa
• BBC News- Africa
• All Africa

Latin America

• South American Newspapers
• Tiempos del Mundo (Spanish)

Asia

• Asia Observer
• China's Official Gateway to News & Info
• China Today
• The Korea Herald
• The North Korea Daily
• Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Asahi Shinbun
• Times of India

Europe

• European Union
• BBC Inside Europe
• Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty