Global Risk Briefing, September 11, 2026: coverage of Red Sea Shipping is surging

Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for September 11, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.

Surging coverage

• Coverage of Red Sea Shipping is running 4.7 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.022% of all monitored articles.

• Coverage of Yemen Conflict is running 4.3 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.061% of all monitored articles.

• Coverage of Terrorism is running 4.2 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.129% of all monitored articles.

• Coverage of Energy Security is running 3.3 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.049% of all monitored articles.

• Coverage of Israel–Iran Confrontation is running 3.2 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.005% of all monitored articles.

Notable movers

• Coverage of Yemen Conflict rose 833.6% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Red Sea Shipping rose 356.1% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Energy Security rose 252.8% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Migration & Borders rose 193.5% week-over-week.

• Coverage of Nuclear Proliferation rose 165.9% week-over-week.

Most covered today

• Terrorism: 0.129% of global coverage.

• Trade War & Tariffs: 0.078% of global coverage.

• Yemen Conflict: 0.061% of global coverage.

• Energy Security: 0.049% of global coverage.

• Sanctions: 0.044% of global coverage.

Where the press reads darkest

• Kosovo: average tone -5.47.

• Turkmenistan: average tone -4.35.

• Afghanistan: average tone -4.20.

• Haiti: average tone -4.10.

• Myanmar: average tone -3.84.

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".