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by danohuiginn 4126 days ago
For anybody who reads French, I recommend http://www.courrierinternational.com/. They select and translate articles from the world press on whatever are the most important issues. So you'll get Greek discussions of Syriza, Ukrainian and Russian comment on Donbass, etc.

I've not found anything as good in English, but presumably it's out there somewhere.

Otherwise, I find it useful to read through archives. The Guardian does a good job of tagging everything. The New York Times is good for world news by country -- e.g. if you want to know what's been going on in Poland lately, start at http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesan...

Also, Spiegel Online put up some of their best articles in English, though they can be frustratingly pompous and long-winded.

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I am going to get a little off-topic here, another awesome website in french is http://linuxfr.org/. If you know of any other website of similar content & an quality in English, Spanish or Portuguese please let me know. There are some English websites I've checked before like Phoronix, Linux.com, Slashdot, etc., but I don't feel that they have as much high quality content as LinuxFr.
Please everyone who thinks Spiegel is a decent magazine. It's not. Any German with a bit of an education can only detest the journalistic "quality" of Der Spiegel. It's a propaganda outlet, on the same level as Deutsche Welle, Russia Today or even boulevard/tabloid noise like Bild and Express.