{"data":[{"slug":"global-2026-08-20","scope":"global","date":"2026-08-20","headline":"Global Risk Briefing, August 20, 2026: coverage of Refugees & Displacement is surging","bodyMd":"Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for August 20, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.\n\n## Surging coverage\n\n\n- Coverage of [Refugees & Displacement](https://geotone.news/topics/refugees) is running 11.3 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.054% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Korean Peninsula](https://geotone.news/topics/korean-peninsula) is running 5.4 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.057% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions) is running 2.4 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.099% of all monitored articles.\n\n## Notable movers\n\n\n- Coverage of [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war) rose 251.9% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [South China Sea](https://geotone.news/topics/south-china-sea) rose 241.9% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Refugees & Displacement](https://geotone.news/topics/refugees) rose 159.8% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Maritime Piracy](https://geotone.news/topics/piracy) fell 78.3% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Red Sea Shipping](https://geotone.news/topics/red-sea-shipping) fell 76.4% week-over-week.\n\n## Most covered today\n\n\n- [Iran War & Succession](https://geotone.news/topics/iran-war-succession): 0.13% of global coverage.\n\n- [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions): 0.099% of global coverage.\n\n- [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war): 0.099% of global coverage.\n\n- [Korean Peninsula](https://geotone.news/topics/korean-peninsula): 0.057% of global coverage.\n\n- [Refugees & Displacement](https://geotone.news/topics/refugees): 0.054% of global coverage.\n\n## Where the press reads darkest\n\n\n- [Afghanistan](https://geotone.news/countries/af): average tone -4.70.\n\n- [Central African Republic](https://geotone.news/countries/cf): average tone -4.61.\n\n- [Yemen](https://geotone.news/countries/ye): average tone -4.13.\n\n- [Burkina Faso](https://geotone.news/countries/bf): average tone -4.09.\n\n- [Ukraine](https://geotone.news/countries/ua): average tone -3.87.\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":"2026-08-20T06:01:32.109Z"}],"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":"2026-10-04T10:20:58.398Z"}}