Faceabot Latest news MCP

Retrieves today's news headlines and breaking news from global sources like BBC, NPR, and The Guardian, supporting search across world, business, tech, and science topics in 30 languages. It also provides national news for 45 countries. The service is free, requires no API key, and is continuously measured for reliability by Faceabot.

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Vendor evidenceStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-01Operated by Faceabot

MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)

https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news

Vendor documentation

What you can do with it

Retrieve today's global news headlines
Search for breaking news in specific languages
Access national news from 45 countries
Monitor business, tech, and science updates

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 1.0.0

mcp-registry: com.faceabot/news@1.0.0 Project website

Protocol and capabilities

Server: faceabot-news 1.0.0
MCP protocol: 2025-06-18
Tools: 2 advertised
Resources: Not advertised
Resource templates: Not advertised
Prompts: Not advertised

Server-advertised capabilities

{
  "tools": {
    "listChanged": false
  }
}

Server-provided instructions

Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.

Faceabot News: today's headlines and a search in the latest news, worldwide, in 30 languages, from public news feeds (BBC and its world services, NPR, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, France 24, DW, RFI, Le Monde, Tagesschau, RTVE, ANSA, RTP, g1, Agência Brasil, Asahi, Yonhap, The Hindu, The Japan Times, SCMP, ABC Australia, Meduza, ANTARA…). Free, no key. news_headlines {"topic":"world","lang":"en"} for the latest headlines (or {"lang":"ja"}, {"topic":"asia"}…); news_search {"query":"…"} for a subject. Only headlines and short excerpts: open the url for the full article and cite the source. Refreshed every few minutes. Part of Faceabot (https://faceabot.com): any other tool: solve_need at https://faceabot.com/api/mcp.

Tools

2 advertised

news_headlines — Latest news headlines

Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Today's latest news headlines from public broadcasters and newspapers, newest first: title, source, time, short excerpt and link. Use when: you need current events, "what's in the news today", or the latest headlines on a topic. Topics (English): world, business, technology, science, health, sport, asia, africa, americas, middle_east. Languages (22): en, fr, nl, de, es, it, pt, ja, zh, ko, ar, hi, ru, tr, pl, id, sw, fa, uk, vi, ur, bn. Example: {"topic":"technology","lang":"en","results":10}

news_headlines input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "lang": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "nl",
        "de",
        "es",
        "it",
        "pt",
        "ja",
        "zh",
        "ko",
        "ar",
        "hi",
        "ru",
        "tr",
        "pl",
        "id",
        "sw",
        "fa",
        "uk",
        "vi",
        "ur",
        "sv",
        "no",
        "da",
        "fi",
        "el",
        "cs",
        "hu",
        "ro",
        "bn"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "default": "en",
      "description": "Language of the news sources"
    },
    "topic": {
      "enum": [
        "world",
        "business",
        "technology",
        "science",
        "health",
        "sport",
        "asia",
        "africa",
        "americas",
        "middle_east"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "default": "world",
      "description": "News section. Sections other than world exist in English only."
    },
    "country": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "BR"
      ],
      "description": "Optional two-letter country code (BR, JP, US, IN…): national publishers of that country first; also sets the language when lang is omitted"
    },
    "results": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 30,
      "minimum": 1
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

news_headlines annotations

{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": false,
  "destructiveHint": false
}

news_search — Search today's news

Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Searches the latest news (roughly the last one or two days) from public broadcasters and newspapers for words such as a name, place or event. Not an archive. Use when: you need recent news about a specific subject. Example: {"query":"Belgium elections","lang":"en"}

news_search input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "lang": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "nl",
        "de",
        "es",
        "it",
        "pt",
        "ja",
        "zh",
        "ko",
        "ar",
        "hi",
        "ru",
        "tr",
        "pl",
        "id",
        "sw",
        "fa",
        "uk",
        "vi",
        "ur",
        "sv",
        "no",
        "da",
        "fi",
        "el",
        "cs",
        "hu",
        "ro",
        "bn"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "default": "en",
      "description": "Language of the news sources"
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "climate"
      ],
      "description": "Words to look for (all must appear in the headline or excerpt)"
    },
    "country": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional two-letter country code: search that country's national publishers first"
    },
    "results": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 30,
      "minimum": 1
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

news_search annotations

{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": false,
  "destructiveHint": false
}

Prompts

Not advertised

No prompt definitions available.

Resources

Not advertised

No resource definitions available.

30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks: 1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency: 325 ms
95th percentile latency: 325 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

Nov 1, 2026, 7:32 AM UTC · probe · passed · 325 ms · metadata changed · 2 tool(s)

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.

Claude Code configuration

claude mcp add --transport http faceabot-latest-news-mcp https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).

Codex configuration

codex mcp add faceabot-latest-news-mcp --url https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable faceabot-latest-news-mcp in your MCP settings.

Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "faceabot-latest-news-mcp": {
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).

Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "faceabot-latest-news-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start faceabot-latest-news-mcp and inspect its tools.

VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "faceabot-latest-news-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.

Gemini CLI configuration

gemini mcp add --transport http faceabot-latest-news-mcp https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news

Claude Desktop

Merge this into claude_desktop_config.json (macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\), then restart Claude Desktop.

Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "faceabot-latest-news-mcp": {
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.

Windsurf configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "faceabot-latest-news-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/news"
    }
  }
}

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