Many Wikipedias maintain a list of topics in today’s news with links to relevant Wikipedia articles. The Wikimedia API lets you access these topics in more than 15 languages. You can also use the API to explore freely-licensed news articles from Wikinews.

Projects

Encyclopedia articles
  Over 300 languages
  CC BY-SA 4.0
News stories
  Over 30 languages
  CC BY 2.5

Documentation

Featured content endpoint

List topics in today's news.

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Language support

See supported languages for current events from Wikipedia.

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Search content endpoint

Search for relevant articles on Wikinews.

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Get page endpoint

Get the latest page content from Wikinews.

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