Facts On File World News Digest
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Description: Facts On File World News Digest and selected content from six other core reference databases answers questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60 years. In-depth features on "Historic Events" are drawn from the Facts On File archive. Additional special features include maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events. Published by Facts On File News Services.

Facts On File World News Digest features:

  • weekly updates
  • hourly wire-service updates from ReutersŪ
  • Country profiles
  • links to Web sites of newspapers from foreign countries
  • selected content from:
    • Issues and Controversies On File
    • Today's Science On File
    • Editorials On File
    • The World Almanac
    • Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
Coverage: 1940 to the present
Update Frequency: Weekly; Reuters, hourly
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