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Singapore World News API

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

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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": 57384,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "5a17aa6f2aab32dfb49d80768334c09e",
            "title": "Singaporean duo fined RM1,000 each for littering",
            "description": "Lim Hu Shen and Tan Boon Haw are also ordered to perform six hours of community service within six months.",
            "content": "According to Kosmo, judge Che Wan Zaidi Che Wan Ibrahim handed down the sentences to architect Lim Hu Shen and project manager Tan Boon Haw, both 31.\nThey face one month’s imprisonment if they do not pay their fines.\nLim and Tan were charged under Se... [296 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2026/04/07/singaporean-duo-fined-rm1000-each-for-littering",
            "image": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=75,format=auto,fit=cover,dpr=1,width=1200,height=630,gravity=center/https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/f86dc3c1-mahkamah-sesyen-majistret-johor-bahru-fb-210324-1.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-07T03:53:24Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "36fca29da23c4fb21f6b9e6062eb3d22",
                "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
                "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "455b2fcdedd3e08abb58d22558958085",
            "title": "Education Ministry to review outdoor activity SOPs after trainee teachers drown",
            "description": "PUTRAJAYA: The Education Ministry is reviewing the standard operating procedures for outdoor activities across all its institutions to strengthen safety measures. The review comes after an accident at Pantai Merdeka last Saturday (April 4), which claimed the lives of two trainee teachers from the Institute of Teacher Education (IPG) Perlis Campus during an off-campus programme.",
            "content": "PUTRAJAYA: The Education Ministry is reviewing the standard operating procedures for outdoor activities across all its institutions to strengthen safety measures.\nThe review comes after an accident at Pantai Merdeka last Saturday (April 4), which cla... [910 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2026/04/07/education-ministry-to-review-outdoor-activity-sops-after-trainee-teachers-drown",
            "image": "https://apicms.thestar.com.my/uploads/images/2026/04/07/3847739.JPG",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-07T03:34:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9e101ab52b61103bab415ad7fb0e5659",
                "name": "thestar.com.my",
                "url": "https://www.thestar.com.my"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3680a90dd0dccfbb78eee71b8ed2d83c",
            "title": "Vietnam's top leader To Lam wins state presidency, gets China-style mandate",
            "description": "HANOI: Vietnam's lawmakers on Tuesday (Apr 7) unanimously elected Communist Party Secretary General To Lam as the country's state president for the next five years, making him the most powerful Vietnamese leader in decades. The widely anticipated move marks a break from Vietnam's traditional collective l",
            "content": "HANOI: Vietnam's lawmakers on Tuesday (Apr 7) unanimously elected Communist Party Secretary General To Lam as the country's state president for the next five years, making him the most powerful Vietnamese leader in decades.\nThe widely anticipated mov... [3974 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/vietnam-parliament-elect-top-leader-lam-new-state-president-6040041",
            "image": "https://dam.mediacorp.sg/image/upload/s--cay6MZ-T--/c_crop,h_576,w_1024,x_0,y_52/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/2026/04/07/000_a6wl6ke.jpg?itok=DrdzsIel",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-07T03:28:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "08538e21f9ef4fd994fa94c90374f079",
                "name": "CNA",
                "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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