{"data":[{"slug":"global-2026-08-29","scope":"global","date":"2026-08-29","headline":"Global Risk Briefing, August 29, 2026: coverage of Syria Transition is surging","bodyMd":"Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for August 29, 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 10.0 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.01% of all monitored articles.\n\n## Notable movers\n\n\n- Coverage of [Haiti Crisis](https://geotone.news/topics/haiti-crisis) rose 1972.5% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Maritime Piracy](https://geotone.news/topics/piracy) rose 1365.3% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions) rose 254.7% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [DR Congo Conflict](https://geotone.news/topics/drc-conflict) rose 189.7% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Cyberattacks](https://geotone.news/topics/cyberattacks) rose 171.9% week-over-week.\n\n## Most covered today\n\n\n- [Iran War & Succession](https://geotone.news/topics/iran-war-succession): 0.115% of global coverage.\n\n- [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war): 0.099% of global coverage.\n\n- [Terrorism](https://geotone.news/topics/terrorism): 0.066% of global coverage.\n\n- [NATO](https://geotone.news/topics/nato): 0.051% of global coverage.\n\n- [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions): 0.038% of global coverage.\n\n## Where the press reads darkest\n\n\n- [Saint Lucia](https://geotone.news/countries/lc): average tone -6.51.\n\n- [Bosnia and Herzegovina](https://geotone.news/countries/ba): average tone -5.41.\n\n- [Kenya](https://geotone.news/countries/ke): average tone -4.27.\n\n- [Haiti](https://geotone.news/countries/ht): average tone -4.07.\n\n- [Guyana](https://geotone.news/countries/gy): average tone -3.89.\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":"2026-08-29T06:00:22.314Z"}],"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":"2026-10-04T10:20:57.882Z"}}