Singapore World News API

Get the live top world headlines from Singapore with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Singapore World News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Singapore.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=sg&category=world&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 60228,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a9746084f1d7d7922797f96d9f95e9d2",
            "title": "Firefighters in northern Japan struggle to contain blazes as over 3,000 people evacuated",
            "description": "OTSUCHI, Japan: More than 1,000 firefighters in northern Japan battled to contain two wildfires for a fourth straight day on Saturday (Apr 25), as the blazes pushed closer to residential areas an",
            "content": "OTSUCHI, Japan: More than 1,000 firefighters in northern Japan battled to contain two wildfires for a fourth straight day on Saturday (Apr 25), as the blazes pushed closer to residential areas and forced more than 3,000 residents to evacuate.\nThe com... [2611 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/japan-fire-iwate-blazes-otsuchi-wildfires-6080516",
            "image": "https://dam.mediacorp.sg/image/upload/s--sLXRcGHM--/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2024-04:reuters_1,w_0.1/f_auto,q_auto/v1/one-cms/core/2026-04-25T084545Z_1_LYNXMPEM3O0CI_RTROPTP_3_JAPAN-WILDFIRES.JPG?itok=Ana7zDoT",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-25T14:47:04Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "08538e21f9ef4fd994fa94c90374f079",
                "name": "CNA",
                "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8aec81306ca9be9954fab328891cc138",
            "title": "US envoys head to Pakistan for Iran war talks",
            "description": "The US is \"looking for a face-saving way to escape the war quagmire it has become trapped in\", says Iran's defence ministry.",
            "content": "ISLAMABAD: US envoys were expected in the Pakistani capital on Saturday (Apr 25) to kickstart a new round of peace negotiations with Iran, although Iranian state media said Tehran's representatives had no immediate plans to hold face-to-face talks.\nA... [5575 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/us-pakistan-iran-envoys-war-talks-steve-witkoff-jared-kushner-6080716",
            "image": "https://dam.mediacorp.sg/image/upload/s--szDtRXDX--/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_0/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2023-11:afp_watermark_14112023,w_0.1/f_auto,q_auto/v1/mediacorp/cna/image/2026/04/25/000_a7hg446.jpg?itok=fja0GScH",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-25T12:52:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "08538e21f9ef4fd994fa94c90374f079",
                "name": "CNA",
                "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "70881657609b774524dc9248e0fa700d",
            "title": "Graft, girlfriends and government officials: Indonesia’s other corruption problem",
            "description": "Explore how mistresses are reportedly used by Indonesian government officials to launder corrupt money, an open secret in society. Read more at straitstimes.com.",
            "content": "– If you see an ostensibly independently wealthy, beautiful young woman showing off her luxury goods purchases on social media, what would your first thought be?\nIf you are Indonesian, the answer might be that she is a simpanan pejabat, roughly trans... [5907 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/graft-girlfriends-and-government-officials-indonesias-other-corruption-problem",
            "image": "https://cassette.sphdigital.com.sg/image/straitstimes/f9dd0c5b5957927c45493a65c21e35e069dfb3a0a01622574045a4f1e61a1d87",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-25T11:53:05Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "739b615c65becd670ee152cab7f8c439",
                "name": "The Straits Times",
                "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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