added feature ``use-short`` to CLI
(cherry picked from commit 29f2f04f352d73cdc7d3ed8d7023c0037debe4a5)
``make_world_news_thread()``: timeout=20.0 (was 5.0)
(cherry picked from commit b380a032ff871837b7770743b6fc72cc38024a4b)
append feature ``use-short`` to GUI
(cherry picked from commit e595f97caea52921e1ec18db2ac1f612e039e2af)