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Volte
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This is a thread for news sites, with a focus on ones that have the same articles in multiple languages or are for less-widely-spoken languages. For other free resources, see the list of resources list.

Contributions are welcome. Better formatting coming eventually, when the content starts to suggest a structure.

Project Syndicate(AniaR, delectric)(English, German, Spanish, Russian, French, Arabic, Chinese)
A news site, with translations of articles into several languages.

Chung wrote:

Digiteeritud eesti ajalehed
Nnavigable in Estonian only. This is an online collection of Estonian newspapers. Newspapers are viewable as scanned images. To see a list of all available newspapers, click on "väljaannete nimekiri" at the top of the main page. You can then pick from selected back issues of many Estonian newspapers for perusal or printing)

Fat-tony wrote:

meedan.net is a new web site designed to improve
relations between the west and the Arab world. The good (better?) news is that it looks
like it's going to be an excellent source of
parallel texts.
Enjoy.

(via Hashimi)

Chung wrote:

http://multilingualbooks.com/online-newspapers.html (Lists of newspapers sorted by language including some fairly "small" ones such as Albanian and Latvian. Unfortunately there are no parallel texts here)

dollymangatears wrote:

Nouvel Obs translates Newsweek articles into French, with links to the original.

Dans Newsweek

Ajijic10 wrote:

For English and Spanish:

Democracy Now

Guido wrote:

Danish: DR
Swedish: SR
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian and Arabic: Euronews
30 Languages: Deutsche Welle
English, Persian, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Vietnamse, Turkish, Chinese, French, Khmer, Hausa, Russian: RFI

The last two don't have direct translatiosn in fact, but they do have many languages, including Bengali, Amharic, Hausa, Khmer, Dari, Albanian, etc. (with radios too).

dolly wrote:

Tehran Avenue is a bilingual English-Farsi magazine focusing on the arts.

Kazen wrote:

While they are only in Japanese TBS news (http://news.tbs.co.jp/) and FNN news (http://www.fnn-news.com/) stick out because each video comes with a transcript.

NHK 16 lang; some have transcripts. Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese.

atamagaii wrote:

Kazen wrote:

While they are only in Japanese TBS news (http://news.tbs.co.jp/) and FNN news (http://www.fnn-news.com/) stick out because each video comes with a transcript.

atamagaii wrote:

Japanese
radio (no scripts)
http://www.nhk.or.jp/r-news/
TV
FNN NNN JNN (TBS) with scripts
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/
To download right-click 300k, save news.asx, drag to notepad, copy the mms://
Use Obit Downloader, HiDownload

Edited by Volte on 27 May 2010 at 12:10pm
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Chung
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06 March 2010 at 4:32pm | IP Logged

Nouvel Obs translates Newsweek articles into French, with links to the original.

Dans Newsweek
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Volte
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Added; thank you, Chung and dollymangatears.

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For English and Spanish:

Democracy Now
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Tehran Avenue is a bilingual English-Farsi magazine focusing on the arts.
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While they are only in Japanese TBS news (http://news.tbs.co.jp/) and FNN news (http://www.fnn-news.com/) stick out because each video comes with a transcript.

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