🌍 Global News MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) powered global news application that collects news from multiple countries and categories using RSS feeds and exposes them as reusable MCP tools.

The project contains:

• 🧠 MCP Server for news intelligence
• 🌐 Streamlit web interface
• 📰 RSS-based news aggregation
• 🔎 Global news search
• 🌍 Country-based filtering
• 💻 Technology and science news categories

No API keys are required.

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✨ Features

🌎 Global News

Fetch worldwide news from trusted RSS sources:

• BBC World
• The Guardian

🌍 Country News

Get news by country:

Country	Sources
🇮🇳 India	The Hindu, Times of India
🇺🇸 USA	CNN
🇬🇧 UK	BBC UK
🇨🇦 Canada	CBC
🇦🇺 Australia	ABC Australia
🇩🇪 Germany	DW
🇫🇷 France	France24

💻 Technology News

Technology updates from:

• TechCrunch
• The Verge

🚀 Science News

Science and space updates from:

• NASA
• Science Daily

🔎 Global Search

Search news articles across multiple RSS feeds.

Examples:

Artificial Intelligence
Space
Climate Change
Robotics
Technology

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🏗️ Architecture

                    User
                     |
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              Streamlit UI
                     |
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                MCP Client
                     |
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                MCP Server
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    News Service            MCP Tools
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     RSS Feed Sources
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    Structured JSON Response

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🔌 MCP Tools

The MCP Server exposes these tools:

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get_global_news()

Returns latest worldwide news.

Example response:

[
 {
  "source": "BBC World",
  "title": "Latest World News",
  "summary": "News summary",
  "link": "article url"
 }
]

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get_country_news(country)

Fetch news from a specific country.

Example:

get_country_news("India")

Returns:

[
 {
  "source": "The Hindu",
  "title": "India News",
  "summary": "...",
  "link": "..."
 }
]

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get_technology_news()

Returns technology-related articles.

Sources:

• TechCrunch
• The Verge

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get_science_news()

Returns science-related articles.

Sources:

• NASA
• Science Daily

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search_news(keyword)

Searches across available RSS feeds.

Example:

search_news("AI")

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📂 Project Structure

news-mcp/

│
├── app.py                    # Streamlit frontend
│
├── requirements.txt          # Dependencies
│
├── mcp_server/
│   │
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── server.py             # MCP server and tools
│   └── news_service.py       # RSS processing logic
│
└── components/
    │
    ├── __init__.py
    └── cards.py              # News UI components

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Backend

• Python 3.11
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• FastMCP
• Feedparser

Frontend

• Streamlit

Data Sources

RSS feeds from:

• BBC
• The Guardian
• The Hindu
• CNN
• CBC
• DW
• France24
• TechCrunch
• NASA
• Science Daily

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⚙️ Installation

Clone Repository

git clone https://github.com/kevin-arock/news-mcp.git

Navigate:

cd news-mcp

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Create Virtual Environment

python -m venv venv

Activate environment.

Windows

venv\Scripts\activate

Linux / Mac

source venv/bin/activate

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Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

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▶️ Run Application

Start Streamlit:

streamlit run app.py

Application opens at:

http://localhost:8501

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🔄 Application Flow

User selects news category
            |
            |
      Streamlit Interface
            |
            |
        MCP Client
            |
            |
        MCP Server
            |
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       News MCP Tools
            |
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       RSS News Sources
            |
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      JSON News Response
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        UI Cards

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💡 Why MCP?

Instead of directly connecting the UI to data sources, MCP creates a reusable tool layer.

Advantages:

✅ AI agents can discover and call tools
✅ Backend capabilities are separated from UI
✅ Multiple AI clients can use the same tools
✅ External data sources can be integrated easily

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🎯 Interview Overview

"I built a Global News MCP Server that exposes news retrieval capabilities as MCP tools. The server collects RSS feeds from different countries, processes them into structured JSON responses, and allows a Streamlit MCP client to consume those tools. This demonstrates how AI applications can use MCP as a standard way to connect with external capabilities."

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🚀 Future Improvements

Planned enhancements:

• 🤖 AI-powered article summarization
• 🌐 Multi-language translation
• 🧠 Semantic search using embeddings
• 📊 News sentiment analysis
• 🔔 Personalized news recommendations
• 💬 Chat-based AI news assistant
• 🔗 Integration with AI clients supporting MCP

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👨‍💻 Author

Arockia Kevin J

GitHub:

https://github.com/kevin-arock

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