Why does nobody talk about searching news in the original language?

I used to think every big story eventually showed up in English, so I never bothered looking anywhere else. Then a friend from Turkey told me about a mining accident near his hometown that got almost no coverage here, and I couldn't find it on any US site. So I tried something simple: I typed the town name into a search box in Turkish and let the browser translate the results. I found three local articles in about 10 minutes that had details no English outlet ever printed. Now I do this for any story that feels thin, and I want to know what tools you all use to read news from countries where you don't speak the language.