Here's the English version of Deutsche Welle (the equivalent of BBC World): vaguely liberal and highly international. Good European citizens.
France24 is also wide ranging, featuring Madoff, the Honduras coup, Argentina's election, Afghanistan and Jackson. There doesn't seem to be any particular focus on French colonial links.
The BBC's World page is, of course, top quality, though it does feature stories with a UK link slightly more often that the others.
I have a real soft spot for America's NPR (National Public Radio), which always struggles financially but produces great programming on a minuscule budget, a bit like Radios 2, 3 and 4 put together. It's not quite the equivalent of countries' international channels, so is far more domestic, but it's an interesting read. There's a particularly good review of my favourite Renaissance music ensemble, Stile Antico and a concert to listen to online.
Any other international services you lot rate? Back to hiraeth for now though… Here's the news in Welsh, though rather disappointingly, the BBC appears to think that Welsh-speakers are only interested in Wales.
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I occasionally read EL Pais. It's quite interesting to see how another country reports events. They tend to have more Latin American stories than us, which is understandable.
I've also started reading EUobserver since moaning during the build up to the European elections that the UK media never covers any EU stories (unless they're something stupid about the shape of bananas) so we have no information with which to make a decision on.
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