Don't limit yourself to reading the perspective of your neighbors. When news involves people around the world, find out what they are writing. Skip references ending in .edu or .com, and instead head directly to resources from the country of your inquiry.
For instance, rearching local resources in Germany, you'll use "Site.DE" "De" stands for Deutschland. (Including "site" as well as "DE" means that the content in your search will all be from your selected source extension -- here, from Germany.) Can you guess the country "IR" stands for? If you guessed Iran, you're right.
Here's a source for other country codes.
HERE's A SOURCE FOR OTHER COUNTRY CODES:
http://www.web-l.com/country-codes/
That's a great start. But if you do a search using the local extension, but your search results uses the USA name or term, then your results will probably still be more biased than they are enlightening. Try looking up the name the locals use for the same event. For this task, Wikipedia is fine.
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Keep in mind that it's already a significant filter, if you are only able to read publications in English. That makes eliminating or reducing other filters even more critical yet, that is, if you truly are interested in what people in other countries are thinking and writing about. And in the age of the Internet, it only makes sense to make use of filtering tools such as these, wouldn't you agree?
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