News by word of mouse [Archives:2007/1061/Community]
By: Richard Moir
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If you find yourself curious about some country to the extent that you would like to be able to read today's news from it, there is a helping hand, or at least a helping mouse.
Not another one of these internet sites to negotiate, at you Mutter. But no ” it doesn't send you off into a web maze. If you home in on Turkey for example, you can quite rightly expect to see a list of Turkish newspapers, and you read whichever ones you want. (If you happen to know Turkish you have a wider choice.)
The internet these days is an inescapable fact, but it is more inescapable in some places than in others. You might be surprised to know that there are more internet cafes down a side street in Calcutta or Darjeeling than there are in downtown Calgary. This may have something to do with the fact that most people from five years up in North America have computers in their homes, while in India they still don't.
It seems that the more remote the place, the better are your chances of checking your email while on holiday (if you absolutely must check your email on holiday), so don t worry about going to central Morocco, the South Pacific, or northern Mongolia if that is the case.
In Athens you stand a good chance of walking down the street and Picking up a copy of the Athens News if you want to read local news in English, and the same in Prague for the Prague Post. Otherwise pop into an internet place and read these newspapers to your hearts content, along with those in Greek and Czech if you are something of a polyglot.
If instead of the country you select the language, your screen will show a list of countries which have newspapers in that language. This means you can read Turkish language newspapers from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania and Turkey. You can also read Dutch language newspapers from Belgium, the Netherlands, Aruba, Cura_cao and Suriname, and so on. Some of these lists, like French and Arabic, are long. We find that there are over 20 countries in Africa alone that publish online French language newspapers.
Most of us are content just to read our news in English. All of the 220 countries covered by worldpresspoint.com link to the front pages of English language newspapers or, failing an actual newspaper, a press site. No site is perfect. Keeping entries up-to-date is a continuous job. Instead of presenting thousands of newspapers, this website selects just over 700, five of them for Yemen. In any case, how many newspapers can a person read?
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