{"data":[{"slug":"global-2026-08-28","scope":"global","date":"2026-08-28","headline":"Global Risk Briefing, August 28, 2026: coverage of Syria Transition is surging","bodyMd":"Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for August 28, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.\n\n## Surging coverage\n\n\n- Coverage of [Syria Transition](https://geotone.news/topics/syria-transition) is running 10.2 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.006% of all monitored articles.\n\n## Notable movers\n\n\n- Coverage of [Haiti Crisis](https://geotone.news/topics/haiti-crisis) rose 1542.6% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Maritime Piracy](https://geotone.news/topics/piracy) rose 1175.8% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions) rose 469.1% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [DR Congo Conflict](https://geotone.news/topics/drc-conflict) rose 376.6% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war) rose 334.7% week-over-week.\n\n## Most covered today\n\n\n- [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war): 0.291% of global coverage.\n\n- [NATO](https://geotone.news/topics/nato): 0.106% of global coverage.\n\n- [Iran War & Succession](https://geotone.news/topics/iran-war-succession): 0.069% of global coverage.\n\n- [DR Congo Ebola Outbreak](https://geotone.news/topics/drc-ebola-outbreak): 0.066% of global coverage.\n\n- [Energy Security](https://geotone.news/topics/energy-security): 0.056% of global coverage.\n\n## Where the press reads darkest\n\n\n- [Bosnia and Herzegovina](https://geotone.news/countries/ba): average tone -9.12.\n\n- [Lesotho](https://geotone.news/countries/ls): average tone -6.31.\n\n- [Dominica](https://geotone.news/countries/dm): average tone -5.82.\n\n- [Kosovo](https://geotone.news/countries/xk): average tone -4.09.\n\n- [Eritrea](https://geotone.news/countries/er): average tone -4.09.\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":"2026-08-28T06:00:32.970Z"}],"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":"2026-10-04T10:20:57.763Z"}}