US News Archives is a list of US Newspaper archives. Many are free, and many are paid archives. This document lists them. Alerts and Current Awareness requests are built in to most information retrieval services. Though fairly complex, you can arrange for information to be emailed to you from Dialog databases by establishing an alert.
Costs are considerable and reflect the commercial database environment.
There are a selection of International Newswires and Newswire databases available to you. Agence France Newswire , is produced by AFP . This, is the primary French newswire. Canada Newswire , is the primary Canadian newswire. Further descriptions can be found from Dialog and InfoMart .