CIA World Factbook
Great website for general information about different countries. This contains basic information about issues such as a country's history, geography, military etc. This is a great place to start your research about the background of a country.
IHS Connect
Formerly known as Global Insight. Up-to-date news and risk analysis of various countries and spanning industries. Provides analysis of economic, financial and political situation. Get analysis on risks involved in doing business in foreign countries. Topics include political, security, legal and taxation issues. Consistently updates information concerning events that may change a country's risk rating.
Global Road Warrior
Global Road Warrior consists of country guides covering a variety of topics including education, country facts, business culture, climate, life cycles, religion, food, health, electrical, transportation and more.
Observatory of Economic Complexity
This is a free website that allows users to create visualizations about countries and the products they exchange.
Passport
Contains company reports, industry reports and country reports. Get product information and how various products and services are faring in other countries. In addition to reports, you can get detailed demographic and consumer information for various countries. These can be exported into excel.
EIU.com
Provides detailed economic profiles of ~64 countries. Created by the same company that publishes The Economist, this database gives analysis on such topics as foreign trade, e-commerce, investment and taxation issues. As a user, you can print out a single section, or the entire country report.
Use the Data Tool (located under the 'Search' box in the left menu) to view time-series data on dozens of economic data points such as GDP, unemployment, budget expenditures etc. Historical data is provided from 1990 and 5-year projections are given for most items.
Factiva
Seaches thousands of global newspapers, including some of the prominent names such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and New York Times.
LexisNexis Academic
In addition to searching thousands of global newspapers (including foreign language sources) LexisNexis also searches radio and television transcripts, blogs, country information and legal documents.
Hoovers Online
Search for information on both domestic and international companies. Contains data about competitors, financial information, history/background, primary products etc. Very easy to use to find a single company or generate a list of similar companies.
OneSource
Excellent database for researching foreign companies. Contains information such as company description, historical financials, analyst reports, SWOT analysis and more. Find research on a particular company or build a list of global companies that meet your research requirements.