The amount of attention that news stories get is, I fear, directly proportional to skin color. The media here (in the US) doesn't offer up as much world news, preferring to focus on White People News. I just scrolled through the machine-generated news lists on Google News - way way down the page was this from yesterday:

Gang slaughtered 46 women at Honduran prison with machetes, guns and flammable liquid, official says

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Gang members in a women’s prison in Honduras slaughtered 46 other women inmates by spraying them with gunfire, hacking them with machetes and then locking survivors in their cells and dousing them with flammable liquid, an official said Wednesday.

The carnage in Tuesday’s riot was the worst atrocity at a women’s prison in recent memory, something President Xiomara Castro called “monstrous.”

Relatives said inmates at the facility had been threatened for weeks by members of the notorious Barrio 18 gang.

Chillingly, the gang members were able to arm themselves with prohibited weapons, brush past guards and attack; they even carried locks to shut their victims inside, apparently to burn them to death. The intensity of the fire left the walls of the cells blackened and beds reduced to twisted heaps of metal.

And right next to it, was this:

Greek authorities rescue 145 migrants who were found stranded on a river islet on the Turkish border

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities said they rescued 145 migrants found stranded Thursday on an islet on the river that runs along the northeastern land border with Turkey.

Police said that the 70 men, 45 women and 30 children were all in good health and identified as Syrians or Kurds. Greek authorities launched the rescue after being alerted to the migrants' presence by a nongovernmental organization.

The Evros River — Meric in Turkish — is a key crossing point for migrants coming through Turkey to seek a better life in the European Union.

It's quite common for smuggling gangs to dump migrants on islets mid-river and flee, to avoid arrest by Greek authorities, and confusion over the precise location and ownership of the islets can lead to delays in their evacuation.

Thousands of people also try to enter Greece by sea. On June 14, a battered fishing trawler carrying up to 750 people sank far off southwestern Greece, with only 104 survivors.

I still haven't reached an account of that shipwreck other than the brief mention in the above article, though I have been listening to accounts of how the ship was probably tipped over by the Greek Coast Guard using a rope to try to tow the boat.

The story of new settlements in Palestinian territory was a bit of a blip (the Israeli government are such bad actors in the area). I still haven't come across a multi-faceted account of the shipwreck.

So you're right, the news that gets spoonfed to many of us is incredibly biased. Reading off-shore news helps round out knowledge of world events.