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News, Research and Job related links

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Elizabeth "Buffie" Ives (photo courtesy of The Pantagraph).

Elizabeth "Buffie" Ives (photo courtesy of The Pantagraph).

News

US Department of State Foreign Media Reaction

The US Department of State offers each business day a global roundup of views on a major foreign policy issue, with articles from major newspapers, magazines and broadcast media from around the world.

Paperboy.com

This website provides an online directory to link up to newspapers around the world. The site user friendly, and access to newspaper readily available by selecting a country and city or name of newspaper.

World News.com

This provides a gateway to foreign newspapers, news photographs, broadcasting and major wire services, with a search engine that includes categories for society and politics.

World News Connection

World News Connection (WNC) is an online news service, only accessible via the World Wide Web, that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information. Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources, WNC provides information to identify what is happening in a specific country or region. Compiled from thousands of non-US media sources, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. The material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a US government agency. For over 60 years, analysts from FBIS' domestic and overseas bureaus have monitored timely and pertinent open-source materials, including gray literature. Uniquely, WNC allows people to take advantage of the intelligence gathering experience of FBIS.           

WNC is a valuable research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-US Media sources. For a low monthly fee, WNC subscribers can conduct unlimited interactive searches and have the ability to set up automated searches known as "profiles". Users of all skill levels will be impressed by WNC's power and ease of use.

World Press Review Online

World Press Review Online provides an English Lanauge magazine giving readers a monthly collection of articles, editorials and cartoons covering issues and newspapers from around the word.

Resources

International Relations and Security Network

A limited area search service for full-text searches of sites of interest to the international security policy community. Enables rapid retrieval, priority ranking and natural language searches in English, French, German, Italian, and Russian.
A collection of links to sites relating to international relations and security issues, including sites of governments, NGOs, research institutes, journals, armed forces, and on specific topics.

Women in International Security (WIIS)

A nonpartisan networking and educational organization based at the Center for International and Security Studies at the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland. The most significant, their databank of experts, job hotline, publications and videos, a variety of useful links. It aims to inform others about the roles and contributions women are making in the international security community.

Job and Internship Oppertunities

Idealist

This website posts information on jobs, internships, career opportunities, and volunteer programs relating especially to the nonprofit sector. The site includes listings of job opportunities by host country, and announcements on nonprofit career fairs held throughout the United States.


McLean County UNA-USA
P.O. Box 1901, Bloomington, Illinois 61702
Jim Nelson, President jlnelso3@ilstu.edu, (309) 862-1844