Anyone who really wants to stay informed need only to glance at the Wikipedia current events portal [1] once a week. Any global event of any note will show up there with very little sensationalism.
Hey HN, I made this to so that I could keep up to day with the news and current events without any of the sensationalism of news sites.
Wikipedia has a Current Events Portal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events - which lists all the key events going on in the world each day. This email simply pulls the content from wikipedia and I email it each day.
The nice thing is that you don't get the usual heavily US-centric political bias, and instead just see stuff happening around the world. The obituaries are on the side as well, which is convenient because, being Wikipedia, you can easily read about them.
Edit: curious that this got downvoted so rapidly when OP specifically mentions wanting to keep track of things like wars, which these sites all cover, while discarding flavor-of-the-week scandals, which again these sites avoid.
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