World News Connection

 
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Description

World News Connection (WNC) is an online news service that offers an array of translated and English-language news and information, provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). This information is obtained from full text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources, WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. New information is entered into WNC every government business day.

Regional categories covered include: Central Eurasia, China, East Asia, Near East & South Asia, East Europe, West Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Dates covered

1995 to present.

Updating frequency

Daily.

Sources

Non-US Media Sources.

Type of coverage

Full-text.

Print counterpart or
related resources

Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports in various formats.

Producer/content provider

Foreign Broadcast Information Service; National Technical Information Service

Vendor/electronic presentation provider

Dialog Corporation