Syrian refugee crisis: Resources

To find news of the refugee crisis published in countries around the world and in the USA, try these options:

• Go to the library's databases page and select Newsbank, then Access World News. Select your country of interest to read news published in that country.

• British news sources: BBC, The Guardian, The Times Online, Financial Times

• World news websites: Reuters (use the drop-down menu to choose a specific area of the world), Al-Jazeera, Christian Science Monitor (this is not a religious newspaper), PressDisplay, NewspaperIndex, World-Newspapers.com, Internet Public Library Newspaper Site.

• Google News has an easy way to find news articles published elsewhere in the world. For example, you may want news ABOUT Syria, as published in (FROM) Germany. Here's the process:
  • Go to news.google.com
  • In the search box, there is a small arrow on the right. Click on this to open up Advanced Search options
  • Use the top boxes to type one or more search terms, i.e. type the name of the country you want news ABOUT. You can add other search terms as well - if you want to read about immigrants from Syria you will type Syria immigrants.
  • In Date Added to Google News, click the arrow to open a drop-down menu. Make a selection, i.e. past month.
  • In the location box type the name of the country where you want news FROM

• You can also read American news sources: Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle

• Try this Times Topics link to read New York Times articles about events happening in other countries

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