في الصباح أقرأ الخبر في الصحيفة قبل الاجتماع.

Arabic word order is flexible. Starting with في الصباح puts the time first and sets the scene: in the morning.

So this sentence is not strange at all. It is similar to saying in English:

• In the morning, I read the news in the newspaper before the meeting.

You could also say:

• أقرأ الخبر في الصحيفة قبل الاجتماع في الصباح

but that version puts less emphasis on the time at the beginning.

Because أقرأ already tells you the subject is I.

In the present/imperfect tense, Arabic verbs include person information. The أـ at the beginning of أقرأ marks first person singular.

So:

• أقرأ = I read / I am reading

You can add أنا if you want emphasis or contrast:

• أنا أقرأ الخبر... = I am reading the news...

But in normal Arabic, أنا is not necessary here.

أقرأ is the imperfect form. In Arabic, this form can cover several English meanings depending on context, including:

• I read
• I am reading
• I do read
• sometimes I will read

In this sentence, the most natural meaning is probably habitual or regular:

• In the morning, I read the news...

If you wanted to make the future very clear, you could say:

• سأقرأ = I will read

If you wanted the past:

• قرأتُ = I read / I read earlier / I have read, depending on context

In careful MSA pronunciation, it is roughly:

• ʾaqraʾu

A few points matter here:

• The first sound أ is a hamza, a glottal stop, like the break in uh-oh
• The ق is qāf, a deep q sound, not the regular English k
• There is another hamza near the end: قرأ

When pausing at the end of a phrase, many speakers would say something closer to:

• ʾaqraʾ

Because ص is a sun letter.

With sun letters, the ل of الـ is not pronounced separately. Instead, it assimilates to the next consonant.

So:

• الصباح is pronounced aṣ-ṣabāḥ
• الصحيفة is pronounced aṣ-ṣaḥīfa

But this does not happen with all words. For example:

• الخبر = al-khabar because خ is a moon letter
• الاجتماع = al-ijtimāʿ because ج is also a moon letter

The spelling stays the same either way; only the pronunciation changes.

Because في can be used in different ways, just like in in English.

Here it appears in:

• في الصباح = in the morning → time
• في الصحيفة = in the newspaper → place, medium, or source

So the repetition is completely normal.

Also, in some contexts Arabic might use من instead:

• أقرأ الخبر من الصحيفة = I read the news from the newspaper

That version emphasizes the source a little more.
في الصحيفة emphasizes that the news is in the newspaper.

خبر literally means something like:

• news item
• report
• piece of news
• sometimes article, depending on context

So الخبر is singular. It usually means the news item/report, not necessarily all news in general.

If you want news in a broader or plural sense, Arabic often uses:

• الأخبار = the news / news items

So in this sentence, الخبر probably refers to a specific report or news item being read in the newspaper.

Because the direct object here is الخبر, not الصحيفة.

So the structure is:

• أقرأ الخبر = I read the news/report
• في الصحيفة = in the newspaper

That means the newspaper is where the report appears.

Compare:

• أقرأ الخبر في الصحيفة = I read the news/report in the newspaper
• أقرأ الصحيفة = I read the newspaper

These are related, but not exactly the same meaning.

Yes, often you can.

For example:

• أقرأ الخبر صباحًا = I read the news in the morning
• في الصباح أقرأ الخبر = In the morning, I read the news

The difference is mostly one of style and nuance:

• في الصباح feels like a full time phrase: in the morning
• صباحًا is an adverbial expression: morning / in the morning

Both are natural in MSA.

قبل means before, so:

• قبل الاجتماع = before the meeting

This is a very common structure in Arabic.

In fuller grammatical terms, قبل behaves a bit like a noun in an iḍāfa construction, so the phrase is understood like the before of the meeting, which Arabic uses to mean before the meeting.

In fully inflected MSA, this would be:

• قبلَ الاجتماعِ
• roughly qabla l-ijtimāʿi

So:

• قبلَ has an -a ending
• الاجتماعِ has an -i ending

But in normal unvowelled writing, those endings are usually not shown.

They are usually not written in ordinary Arabic text, but they still exist in careful MSA grammar and pronunciation.

A fully inflected reading would be roughly:

• fī aṣ-ṣabāḥi ʾaqraʾu al-khabara fī aṣ-ṣaḥīfati qabla l-ijtimāʿi

That reflects endings like these:

• في الصباحِ → -i because it follows a preposition
• أقرأُ → -u for the indicative verb
• الخبرَ → -a because it is the direct object
• في الصحيفةِ → -i after في
• قبلَ الاجتماعِ → قبلَ plus الاجتماعِ

Learners should know these endings exist, but they should also know that everyday printed Arabic usually leaves them unwritten.

Yes. Arabic allows a lot of movement in sentence parts, especially time phrases and other adverbial expressions.

For example, these are all possible with slightly different emphasis:

• في الصباح أقرأ الخبر في الصحيفة قبل الاجتماع
• أقرأ الخبر في الصحيفة في الصباح قبل الاجتماع
• قبل الاجتماع أقرأ الخبر في الصحيفة

The core meaning can stay similar, but the first element often gets extra focus.

So the original sentence is a natural way to emphasize the time of day first.