Add news fetcher for today's headlines via RSS

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Adds a Python script to fetch and display today's news headlines from public RSS feeds.

• news_fetcher.py: Fetches top headlines from BBC News, CNN, and Reuters using only stdlib (urllib, xml.etree.ElementTree). Graceful error handling for unreachable feeds.
• test_news_fetcher.py: Unit tests for XML parsing (titles, links, dates, empty feeds, missing elements).
• .gitignore: Excludes __pycache__/ and *.pyc.

python news_fetcher.py

============================================================
  Today's News Headlines — 2026-02-10
============================================================

📰 BBC News
----------------------------------------
  1. Some headline here
     🔗 https://bbc.co.uk/...
     📅 Mon, 10 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT

The module exposes fetch_news(), parse_rss_xml(), and display_news() for programmatic use. No external dependencies required.

Warning

Firewall rules blocked me from connecting to one or more addresses (expand for details)

I tried to connect to the following addresses, but was blocked by firewall rules:

• feeds.bbci.co.uk
  • Triggering command: /usr/bin/python python news_fetcher.py (dns block)
• feeds.reuters.com
  • Triggering command: /usr/bin/python python news_fetcher.py (dns block)
• rss.cnn.com
  • Triggering command: /usr/bin/python python news_fetcher.py (dns block)

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