{"data":[{"slug":"global-2026-09-29","scope":"global","date":"2026-09-29","headline":"Global Risk Briefing, September 29, 2026: coverage of Myanmar Civil War is surging","bodyMd":"Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for September 29, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.\n\n## Surging coverage\n\n\n- Coverage of [Myanmar Civil War](https://geotone.news/topics/myanmar-civil-war) is running 11.4 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.014% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions) is running 6.0 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.317% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Disinformation](https://geotone.news/topics/disinformation) is running 3.6 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.042% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Taiwan Strait](https://geotone.news/topics/taiwan-strait) is running 2.7 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.019% of all monitored articles.\n\n## Notable movers\n\n\n- Coverage of [Ethiopia Conflict](https://geotone.news/topics/ethiopia-conflict) rose 2102.8% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Kashmir](https://geotone.news/topics/kashmir) rose 618.8% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Iran War & Succession](https://geotone.news/topics/iran-war-succession) rose 588.4% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Terrorism](https://geotone.news/topics/terrorism) rose 346.7% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Myanmar Civil War](https://geotone.news/topics/myanmar-civil-war) rose 340.1% week-over-week.\n\n## Most covered today\n\n\n- [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions): 0.317% of global coverage.\n\n- [Iran War & Succession](https://geotone.news/topics/iran-war-succession): 0.11% of global coverage.\n\n- [Terrorism](https://geotone.news/topics/terrorism): 0.056% of global coverage.\n\n- [Disinformation](https://geotone.news/topics/disinformation): 0.042% of global coverage.\n\n- [NATO](https://geotone.news/topics/nato): 0.042% of global coverage.\n\n## Where the press reads darkest\n\n\n- [Myanmar](https://geotone.news/countries/mm): average tone -4.28.\n\n- [Central African Republic](https://geotone.news/countries/cf): average tone -4.10.\n\n- [North Korea](https://geotone.news/countries/kp): average tone -3.72.\n\n- [Afghanistan](https://geotone.news/countries/af): average tone -3.36.\n\n- [Israel](https://geotone.news/countries/il): average tone -3.10.\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":"2026-09-29T06:01:04.864Z"}],"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":"2026-10-04T10:21:07.491Z"}}