# Breaking World News

> World news from 23 newsrooms across eight sections, compared side by side.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/breaking.news.world](https://chrome-stats.com/d/breaking.news.world)

## Overview

- **ID:** `breaking.news.world`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** ATOM Technology
- **Category:** NEWS\_AND\_MAGAZINES
- **Downloads:** 1,127
- **Version:** 5.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-30
- **First published:** 2018-02-04
- **Publisher country:** RO
- **Size:** 3.43 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-18
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=breaking.news.world)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://atomtech.ro/privacy-breaking.html](https://atomtech.ro/privacy-breaking.html)

## Description

Breaking World News follows the day across twenty-three newsrooms and institutional feeds, grouped into eight sections, and shows you plainly who wrote what.<br><br>BREAKING<br>The alert at the top rotates through what is happening right now, with a live timeline underneath. Every item carries the newsroom that published it and the time it appeared.<br><br>COMPARE COVERAGE<br>Hold a story and see the same event as several newsrooms titled it, one under another. The differences between headlines are often the story itself.<br><br>EIGHT SECTIONS<br>World, US, Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa and Latin America, each with its own sources, plus Alerts for institutional public-safety feeds. Follow the sections and topics you care about and get a quiet local alert when something lands, with quiet hours so the night stays yours.<br><br>WHILE YOU READ<br>When new stories arrive, a small bubble tells you how many. The list never moves under your finger; you decide when to jump to the top. A line marks where you had read up to.<br><br>OFFLINE<br>The last edition stays on the phone. Headlines, sources and search work without a connection.<br><br>WHAT IT DOES NOT DO<br>No ads. No tracking. No accounts. No data collection of any kind. Articles open at the newsroom that published them; we do not copy their content.<br><br>Newsrooms include BBC News, The Guardian, Sky News, NPR, CBS News, ABC News, The Hill, DW, France 24, Politico Europe, Euronews, SCMP, Times of India, Al Jazeera, Al-Monitor, BBC Africa, France 24 Africa, BBC Latin America and France 24 Americas.<br><br>The Alerts section carries public feeds from institutions, with their required credits shown in the app: earthquake data from the U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program (public domain); disaster alerts from the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS), a joint service of the European Commission Joint Research Centre and UN OCHA; humanitarian updates from ReliefWeb, a service of UN OCHA. These institutions do not endorse this app.<br><br>Contact: https://atomtech.ro/contact-breaking.html

## Rankings

- #1,124,460 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `breaking.news.world.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`

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