Just an observation: in the time I spent in Berlin, I felt like I had a much better idea of what was going on in the world just from local news sources, which surprised me. The UK definitely feels like a bubble in and of itself (hence focusing on RSS feeds instead of TV).
The USA is like the UK dialled up another notch. It's of course very US-centric, as you would expect.
The good thing here is that you have the public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF which have really good news coverage, corospondents all around the world, or some "newsshows" that also tell you about some forgoten conflicts or such things from time to time. I was living in NewZealand for one year and the TV and newspapers always felt somehow sensationalist to me. One of the things I miss though, are some good FM radio talkstations, but now that we have podcasts thats not so much of a problem anymore.
UK has been able to keep its generations of citizens blissfully unblemished by its true colonial past - the horrors, massacres, and the genocides - many many of each kind of them. I wouldn’t be surprised if the more recent events also get rather easily skipped.
The USA is like the UK dialled up another notch. It's of course very US-centric, as you would expect.