Research Guides: Comparative Government: Foreign & Foreign Language News

English language, published abroad

These databases include at least one English-language newspaper published abroad (in either an English-speaking or a non-English speaking country).

Multiple Regions

Access World News
Collection of print and digital-only newspapers, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts, videos, and other online sources. Includes both national and international papers. Many non-U.S. sources translated into English. Dates of coverage: Varies-Present.
Gale OneFile: News
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Provides access to major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. To search for articles published in a particular country and/or language:
Advanced Search > Search for ... in: Publication Country
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Google News Archive
Searchable database of scanned newspapers. Dates of Coverage: 1700s-Present, depending on newspaper.
Nexis Uni
Worldwide newspapers, magazines, newswires, and trade journals. Archives of state and federal case law, statutes and regulations. Dates of Coverage: varies-Present.
Press Reader
Formerly known as PressDisplay, PressReader provides current online access to 7,000+ full-color, full-page newspapers and magazines from around the world in over 60 languages. Browse by category; search, listen to, and translate content; create collections; monitor the latest articles on a specific issue; and download issues for offline reading. Use with a web browser or download the mobile app.
ProQuest Global Newsstream
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Provides one of the largest collections of news from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Searchable by language.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Historical access to Chicago Defender, Detroit Free Press, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, The Atlanta Constitution, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian and The Observer, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Civil War Era Collection, Le Monde, Los Angeles Sentinel, Toronto Star, and South China Morning Post.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers
The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). Dates of Coverage: 1757-1817.
World News Connection Archive
WNC provides unfiltered foreign press dispatches, translated into English. They are from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) and cover 1995 to 2013. Please also see "FBIS Full Text, 1974-1996," which provides the full text of Daily Reports from Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Caribbean, Middle East/near East, North America, South America. Dates of Coverage: 1995-2013.

Africa & Middle East

African Newspapers, Series 1, 1800-1922
More than 60 searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Features English and foreign-language titles.
African Newspapers, Series 2, 1835-1925
Expanding the coverage found in African Newspapers, Series 1, 1800-1922, this second series delivers 40 additional African newspapers published between 1835 and 1925.

Al Jazeera

Jerusalem Post, 1950-present. Previous titles: The Palestine Post, 1933-1950; Palestine Bulletin, 1932-1933.

Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers
1870-2021, predominantly in Arabic, but a few papers in English and French. From EastView, Stanford Libraries, Hoover Institution Library and Archives.

Rand Daily Mail (1940-1985)
A digital archive of this Johannesburg, South Africa newspaper.

Asia (incl. Russia)

Chinese Newspapers Collection
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

The Current digest of the Russian press, 2011-present
DailyNK
Based in South Korea.
Hindustan Times, 1924-present
The Japan Daily Mail or Japan Weekly Mail
via HathiTrust
Japan News, 1989-present
The Japan Times Online
News, Editorials, Techno Times, etc.

Japan Times Digital Archives, 1897-2016
Full text.

Korea Times, 1956-2016
Full text.
Moscow News Digital Archive
The Moscow News Digital Archive contains all obtainable published issues (1930-2014, approx. 60,000 pages), including issues of the newspaper’s short-lived sister publication Moscow Daily News (1932-1938). To understand the political context of the Moscow News, please see this page.
South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922
Searchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from South Asia. Featuring titles from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Dates of Coverage: 1864-1922.

South China Morning Post (1903-1941)
Based in Hong Kong.
Southeast Asian Newspapers
"The Southeast Asian Newspapers collection chronicles the changes that took place throughout the region during this period, and the challenges of early statehood. Covering several countries from the region, including Myanmar (formerly Burma), Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and featuring multiple languages such as Dutch, English, French, Javanese, Spanish, and Vietnamese, the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection incorporates a wealth of coverage and perspectives on major regional and global events of the late 19th and 20th centuries."
The Times of India, 1861-present

Australia

Europe

British Library Newspapers
Sourced from the extensive holdings of the British Library, British Library Newspapers delivers a wide range of irreplaceable local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. With more than 240 newspaper titles, the series is comprised of approximately 6.4 million pages of historic content, from articles to advertisements.
Financial Times (FT.com)
Full text of the Financial Times website, 1994 - present.
Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2016
Full text.
Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003)
Full text coverage of The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003).
The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991
Developed as the medium for reproducing broadcasts, The Listener (1929-1991) was the weekly newspaper published by the BBC. The complete archive of this landmark publication is an essential witness to the intellectual and cultural history of the twentieth century, and also to the golden years of radio and television.
The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2016
The Daily Telegraph was launched in 1855, and within 10 years was able to claim it had 'the largest circulation in the world', boasting world-famous writers such as George Augustus Sala. For more than 150 years it has shaped and recorded the history and democratic values of the United Kingdom. The Sunday Telegraph was launched as a sister paper in 1961, and The Telegraph Historical Archive provides users with access to both the daily and Sunday editions.
Times (London) Archive, 1785 to 2019
Full text.

The Official index to the Times
Index only, not full text. Years of coverage: 1956.
Index to the Times
Index only, not full text. Years of coverage: 1957-1972.
The Times index
Index only, not full text. Years of coverage: 1973-2013

North America

South America

Latin American Newspapers, 1805-1922
More than 35 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American newspapers. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere. Dates of Coverage: 1805-1922.

Translated into English

These databases include a significant number of items from foreign-language media that have been translated into English.

Access World News
Collection of print and digital-only newspapers, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts, videos, and other online sources. Includes both national and international papers. Many non-U.S. sources translated into English. Dates of coverage: Varies-Present.

The Current digest of the Russian press, 2011-present

FBIS Full Text, 1941 - 1996
Full text of Daily Reports from the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Individual reports include speeches, broadcasts, news articles from countries in Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Caribbean, Middle East/near East, North America, South America. Texts are translated into English by the CIA. Dates of Coverage: 1941-1996.
JPRS Reports
Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports is a collection of documents produced by JPRS, a unit of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), from 1957 – 1995. It contains English-language translations of foreign-language monographs, reports, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts from regions throughout the world with an emphasis on communist and developing countries. Reports cover socioeconomic, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and military issues and events.
Nexis Uni
BBC Monitoring: International Reports, 1979-present, includes translations of news reports from other languages.

Pravda (Moscow, Russia)
Call Number: Main Micro
1970-1991. A part of this has been translated into English.

Pravda Archive, Twentieth-Century Global Perspectives, 1959-1996
"Articles published by Pravda during the Cold War and the years immediately following, from 1959 to 1996, collected and translated into English by the CIA."

World News Connection Archive
WNC provides unfiltered foreign press dispatches, translated into English. They are from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) and cover 1995 to 2013. Please also see "FBIS Full Text, 1974-1996," which provides the full text of Daily Reports from Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Caribbean, Middle East/near East, North America, South America. Dates of Coverage: 1995-2013.