News is currently only in the U.S. and Australia. You can switch to the U.S. region to get it, but then you have to deal with miles in Maps. Ugh.
There's no good reason for the delay in roll out. Apple needs to make partnerships in each region they want to roll out into, but if they can do it for Apple Pay and for Apple Music, they can do it for News.
Really disappointed about this as well.