{"data":[{"slug":"global-2026-08-13","scope":"global","date":"2026-08-13","headline":"Global Risk Briefing, August 13, 2026: coverage of Taiwan Strait is surging","bodyMd":"Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for August 13, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.\n\n## Surging coverage\n\n\n- Coverage of [Taiwan Strait](https://geotone.news/topics/taiwan-strait) is running 7.0 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.039% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Haiti Crisis](https://geotone.news/topics/haiti-crisis) is running 3.9 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.005% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Arctic Security](https://geotone.news/topics/arctic-security) is running 3.5 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.007% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Serbia–Kosovo](https://geotone.news/topics/serbia-kosovo) is running 2.3 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.002% of all monitored articles.\n\n## Notable movers\n\n\n- Coverage of [Korean Peninsula](https://geotone.news/topics/korean-peninsula) rose 716.0% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Yemen Conflict](https://geotone.news/topics/yemen-conflict) rose 524.9% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions) rose 343.0% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Armenia–Azerbaijan](https://geotone.news/topics/armenia-azerbaijan) rose 219.7% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Arms Deals](https://geotone.news/topics/arms-deals) rose 187.3% week-over-week.\n\n## Most covered today\n\n\n- [Iran War & Succession](https://geotone.news/topics/iran-war-succession): 0.095% of global coverage.\n\n- [NATO](https://geotone.news/topics/nato): 0.051% of global coverage.\n\n- [Taiwan Strait](https://geotone.news/topics/taiwan-strait): 0.039% of global coverage.\n\n- [DR Congo Ebola Outbreak](https://geotone.news/topics/drc-ebola-outbreak): 0.037% of global coverage.\n\n- [Israel–Gaza](https://geotone.news/topics/israel-gaza): 0.028% of global coverage.\n\n## Where the press reads darkest\n\n\n- [Eritrea](https://geotone.news/countries/er): average tone -5.90.\n\n- [South Sudan](https://geotone.news/countries/ss): average tone -4.83.\n\n- [Afghanistan](https://geotone.news/countries/af): average tone -4.75.\n\n- [Republic of the Congo](https://geotone.news/countries/cg): average tone -4.22.\n\n- [Central African Republic](https://geotone.news/countries/cf): average tone -3.99.\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":"2026-08-13T06:00:30.698Z"}],"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":"2026-08-20T05:24:42.267Z"}}