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Fetch and summarize current news/headlines for any country, language, or topic using Google News RSS via curl. Use when the user asks for latest news, today's headlines, a news digest, or topic-specific news summaries.

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# News Briefing via Google News RSS

Class-level workflow for building current-events summaries from live RSS feeds.

## Why this approach
- Individual outlet RSS URLs are unreliable — guessed paths like `detik.com/rss` or `kompas.com/getrss/nasional` return 404. Go to the aggregator first.
- The `mcp__fetch__fetch` tool enforces robots.txt, and `news.google.com` disallows it. Use `curl` in the terminal instead; it succeeds where fetch refuses.
- After ~3 consecutive fetch-tool failures the MCP server enters an auto-retry cooldown (~60s). Don't hammer it — switch to curl immediately.

## Workflow
1. Build the locale feed URL:
   - Headlines: `https://news.google.com/rss?hl=<lang>&gl=<country>&ceid=<country>:<lang>`
     - Indonesia: `?hl=id&gl=ID&ceid=ID:id`
     - US English: `?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en`
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