World News Skill

Get real-time world news from an AI-powered news aggregation service. Stories are clustered into events (deduplicated across multiple sources), summarized, classified by topic, and tagged by geography.

No API key required. No authentication. Just call the API.

Why This Is Different

Events, not articles — individual articles are clustered into stories, so you get one summary per story instead of 20 duplicates
Pre-summarized — every event has an AI-generated summary, no need to read full articles
Classified — 12 topic categories and 100+ geographic regions
Importance signals — sources_count (how many outlets covered it) and impact_score (AI-assessed significance)
Multi-source — each event lists all source articles with titles, URLs, and domains

API Base URL

https://newsmcp.io/v1

Endpoints

1. Get News Events

curl -s "https://newsmcp.io/v1/news/?hours=24&per_page=10&order_by=-sources_count"

Parameters: | Parameter | Type | Default | Description | |-----------|------|---------|-------------| | hours | int | 24 | Time window (1-168, i.e. up to 7 days) | | topics | string | — | Comma-separated topic slugs (e.g. politics,military) | | geo | string | — | Comma-separated geo slugs (e.g. europe,united-states) | | page | int | 1 | Page number | | per_page | int | 20 | Results per page (max 50) | | order_by | string | -sources_count | Sort field. Options: sources_count, entries_count, impact_score, first_seen_at, last_seen_at (prefix - for descending) |

Response shape:

{
  "events": [
    {
      "id": "uuid",
      "summary": "AI-generated event summary",
      "topics": ["politics", "military"],
      "geo": ["europe", "ukraine"],
      "entries_count": 15,
      "sources_count": 8,
      "first_seen_at": "2026-03-03T10:00:00Z",
      "last_seen_at": "2026-03-03T14:00:00Z",
      "impact_score": 4,
      "entries": [
        {
          "title": "Article headline",
          "url": "https://example.com/article",
          "domain": "example.com",
          "published_at": "2026-03-03T12:00:00Z"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "total": 42,
  "page": 1,
  "per_page": 10
}

2. Get Event Detail

curl -s "https://newsmcp.io/v1/news/{event_id}/"

Returns the same fields as the list, plus context — extended background and analysis of the event.

3. List Available Topics

curl -s "https://newsmcp.io/v1/news/topics/"

Returns: politics, economy, technology, science, health, environment, sports, culture, crime, military, education, society

4. List Available Regions

curl -s "https://newsmcp.io/v1/news/regions/"

Returns continents (europe, asia, africa, north-america, south-america, oceania) and countries (e.g. united-states, ukraine, china, lithuania, etc.). Each region has a type field: "continent" or "country".

How to Use This Skill

When the user asks for news, headlines, or current events:

Default briefing — Fetch top events from the last 24 hours sorted by importance: bash curl -s "https://newsmcp.io/v1/news/?hours=24&per_page=10&order_by=-sources_count"
Topic-specific — If the user asks about a specific topic (e.g. "tech news", "sports"), use the topics parameter: bash curl -s "https://newsmcp.io/v1/news/?topics=technology&hours=24"
Region-specific — If the user asks about a region (e.g. "European news", "what's happening in Asia"), use the geo parameter: bash curl -s "https://newsmcp.io/v1/news/?geo=europe&hours=24"
Combined filters — Topics and geo can be combined: bash curl -s "https://newsmcp.io/v1/news/?topics=politics,military&geo=europe&hours=48"
Deep dive — For more detail on a specific event, fetch the event detail: bash curl -s "https://newsmcp.io/v1/news/{event_id}/"

Formatting the Briefing

Present results as a clean news briefing:

Lead with the most important events (highest sources_count or impact_score)
For each event, show the summary and note how many sources covered it
Include 1-2 source links for each event so the user can read more
Group by topic or region if the user asked for a broad overview
Mention the time window and number of events found
If topics or geo arrays are present, use them to add context tags

Topic Slugs Reference

politics economy technology science health environment sports culture crime military education society

Example Interaction

User: "What's happening in the world today?"

Action: Fetch https://newsmcp.io/v1/news/?hours=24&per_page=10&order_by=-sources_count

User: "Give me the latest on Ukraine"

Action: Fetch https://newsmcp.io/v1/news/?geo=ukraine&hours=48&order_by=-last_seen_at

User: "Any tech news this week?"

Action: Fetch https://newsmcp.io/v1/news/?topics=technology&hours=168&order_by=-sources_count

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