Click a country, or zoom in and click a city. A city is always searched together with
its country, so Tripoli means Tripoli in Libya and not Tripoli in Lebanon.
You can also type a place in the search box — countries and cities both.
A topic widens the net with a group of related words — Business looks for business, economy, markets or trade, and any one of them counts. All applies no topic at all.
Free text, added on top of the other two. With France selected and
strike typed, a story has to match both.
Because all three must match at once, a specific keyword on a small place can come back with nothing. That is a real answer, not a failure — you will get the option to drop the keyword.
Words are matched anywhere in a story, including the name of the publication and the
byline. So a place name can match a publisher instead of the subject:
France catches anything bylined Agence France-Presse or run by
France 24, even when the story itself is about Sudan. There is no way to ask
for a word in the subject only.
Names that mean something else are pinned by hand — Georgia searches
Georgia Tbilisi, Chad searches Chad N'Djamena. Smaller cities
are less distinctive, so their results drift toward classifieds and job posts.
Read the panel as a wire feed for a place, not a verified index of it.