{"data":[{"slug":"global-2026-07-31","scope":"global","date":"2026-07-31","headline":"Global Risk Briefing, July 31, 2026: coverage of Migration & Borders is surging","bodyMd":"Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for July 31, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.\n\n## Surging coverage\n\n\n- Coverage of [Migration & Borders](https://geotone.news/topics/migration) is running 10.6 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.015% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Kashmir](https://geotone.news/topics/kashmir) is running 5.6 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.018% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Food Security](https://geotone.news/topics/food-security) is running 4.5 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.032% of all monitored articles.\n\n## Notable movers\n\n\n- Coverage of [Defense Spending](https://geotone.news/topics/defense-spending) rose 297.6% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Migration & Borders](https://geotone.news/topics/migration) rose 205.3% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Food Security](https://geotone.news/topics/food-security) rose 101.6% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Kashmir](https://geotone.news/topics/kashmir) rose 99.3% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Serbia–Kosovo](https://geotone.news/topics/serbia-kosovo) fell 99.1% week-over-week.\n\n## Most covered today\n\n\n- [Terrorism](https://geotone.news/topics/terrorism): 0.125% of global coverage.\n\n- [NATO](https://geotone.news/topics/nato): 0.098% of global coverage.\n\n- [Coups & Power Grabs](https://geotone.news/topics/coups): 0.064% of global coverage.\n\n- [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war): 0.045% of global coverage.\n\n- [DR Congo Ebola Outbreak](https://geotone.news/topics/drc-ebola-outbreak): 0.037% of global coverage.\n\n## Where the press reads darkest\n\n\n- [Yemen](https://geotone.news/countries/ye): average tone -3.90.\n\n- [Afghanistan](https://geotone.news/countries/af): average tone -3.81.\n\n- [Solomon Islands](https://geotone.news/countries/sb): average tone -3.68.\n\n- [Iraq](https://geotone.news/countries/iq): average tone -3.67.\n\n- [Jordan](https://geotone.news/countries/jo): average tone -3.47.\n\n\n*Every figure above is computed from GDELT coverage data as described in the [methodology](https://geotone.news/methodology). Derived data is CC BY 4.0 — cite \"Geotone / GDELT\".*","generator":"template","publishedAt":"2026-07-31T06:00:53.302Z"}],"meta":{"license":"CC BY 4.0","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Geotone / GDELT","source":"https://geotone.news","docs":"https://geotone.news/api-docs","generated":"2026-08-20T05:24:43.307Z"}}