{"data":[{"slug":"global-2026-09-12","scope":"global","date":"2026-09-12","headline":"Global Risk Briefing, September 12, 2026: coverage of Maritime Piracy is surging","bodyMd":"Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for September 12, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.\n\n## Surging coverage\n\n\n- Coverage of [Maritime Piracy](https://geotone.news/topics/piracy) is running 7.5 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.003% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Yemen Conflict](https://geotone.news/topics/yemen-conflict) is running 6.3 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.209% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Red Sea Shipping](https://geotone.news/topics/red-sea-shipping) is running 3.4 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.039% of all monitored articles.\n\n## Notable movers\n\n\n- Coverage of [Red Sea Shipping](https://geotone.news/topics/red-sea-shipping) rose 2184.5% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Yemen Conflict](https://geotone.news/topics/yemen-conflict) rose 1509.6% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Energy Security](https://geotone.news/topics/energy-security) rose 213.2% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Korean Peninsula](https://geotone.news/topics/korean-peninsula) rose 183.3% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Cyberattacks](https://geotone.news/topics/cyberattacks) rose 165.1% week-over-week.\n\n## Most covered today\n\n\n- [Yemen Conflict](https://geotone.news/topics/yemen-conflict): 0.209% of global coverage.\n\n- [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war): 0.068% of global coverage.\n\n- [NATO](https://geotone.news/topics/nato): 0.068% of global coverage.\n\n- [Terrorism](https://geotone.news/topics/terrorism): 0.068% of global coverage.\n\n- [Ukraine War](https://geotone.news/topics/ukraine-war): 0.064% of global coverage.\n\n## Where the press reads darkest\n\n\n- [Liberia](https://geotone.news/countries/lr): average tone -6.02.\n\n- [Tanzania](https://geotone.news/countries/tz): average tone -5.45.\n\n- [Sudan](https://geotone.news/countries/sd): average tone -5.23.\n\n- [Central African Republic](https://geotone.news/countries/cf): average tone -5.03.\n\n- [Afghanistan](https://geotone.news/countries/af): average tone -4.88.\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":"2026-09-12T06:00:58.415Z"}],"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":"2026-10-04T10:21:23.515Z"}}