Continued working on the basic design of the site. It still doesn't look good but I did get it all working.
I have also started finding all the main news sites for each country. This was luckily already done by feedspot but the smaller countries required searching on google and then trying to find the rss feed.
It looks like many of these sites may not show the rss feed by just adding rss to the end of the main url is enough. Whatever software they use is happy to generate an rss feed which is great for my purposes!