Global Risk Briefing, July 25, 2026: coverage of Yemen Conflict is surging

Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for July 25, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.

Surging coverage

• Coverage of Yemen Conflict is running 5.3 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.068% of all monitored articles.

• Coverage of Food Security is running 4.3 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.033% of all monitored articles.

• Coverage of Trade War & Tariffs is running 2.1 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.278% of all monitored articles.

Notable movers

• Coverage of Red Sea Shipping rose 963.6% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Trade War & Tariffs rose 460.3% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Nuclear Proliferation rose 179.2% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Yemen Conflict rose 159.9% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Food Security rose 140.4% week-over-week.

Most covered today

• Trade War & Tariffs: 0.278% of global coverage.

• Yemen Conflict: 0.068% of global coverage.

• NATO: 0.058% of global coverage.

• Coups & Power Grabs: 0.044% of global coverage.

• Ukraine War: 0.04% of global coverage.

Where the press reads darkest

• The Gambia: average tone -19.55.

• Micronesia: average tone -10.00.

• Sierra Leone: average tone -7.95.

• Afghanistan: average tone -5.30.

• Djibouti: average tone -4.54.

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".