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Asia · Monday, 9 November 2026

Kuwait

No written brief today: there’s too little data for one, or the draft didn’t pass our checks.


Rising

  1. 1الهيئة العامة للمعلومات المدنية

    Sustained

    Other · Google Trends · 10,000+ searches

  2. 2Ramayana: Part 1

    New

    Movies & TV · Wikipedia · 1,117 reads

  3. 3Obsess

    Breakout

    Movies & TV · Netflix Top 10 · #1 in TV

  4. 4The Witches

    Rising

    Movies & TV · Netflix Top 10 · #3 in films

  5. 2017 Canada Summer Games, CC BY 2.0

    5Faouzia

    Rising

    Music · Apple Music · #26 in songs


Top today

  1. 1الهيئة العامة للمعلومات المدنية

    Sustained

    Other · Google Trends · 10,000+ searches

  2. 2Ramayana: Part 1

    New

    Movies & TV · Wikipedia · 1,117 reads

  3. 3Obsess

    Breakout

    Movies & TV · Netflix Top 10 · #1 in TV

  4. 4Surviving Hurricane Otis

    Rising

    Movies & TV · Netflix Top 10 · #1 in films

  5. 5The Witches

    Rising

    Movies & TV · Netflix Top 10 · #3 in films

  6. Muhammad Ashar, CC BY-SA 4.0

    6Pakistan

    Breakout

    Travel & places · Google Trends · 5,000+ searches

  7. 7Dead-End Job

    New

    Movies & TV · Netflix Top 10 · #3 in TV

  8. 8Scene

    New

    Movies & TV · Wikipedia · 442 reads

  9. 2017 Canada Summer Games, CC BY 2.0

    9Faouzia

    Rising

    Music · Apple Music · #26 in songs

  10. National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Public domain

    10Sri Lanka

    Breakout

    Travel & places · Google Trends · 5,000+ searches


What the news is talking about

How much of the news here is about each issue today, and how it sounds, compared with the past 4 weeks. From 763 articles by the country’s own news sites over the last 7 days. How we read the news

Share of the coverage

  1. 4.1% of the news · usually 6.5% · 31 articles
  2. 2.0% of the news · usually 2.4% · 15 articles
  3. 1.8% of the news · usually 1.3% · 14 articles
  4. 1.4% of the news · usually 1.4% · 11 articles
  5. 0.9% of the news · usually 0.6% · 1.5× usual · 7 articles
  6. 0.8% of the news · usually 0.9% · 6 articles
  7. 0.3% of the news · usually 0.7% · 2 articles

    Survey · 2023 67% Worried about climate change (Climate Change Opinion Survey (Meta, Yale), survey of Facebook users)

  8. 0.1% of the news · usually 0.6% · 1 articles

How the news sounds

News coverage in more than 100 languages, machine-translated and counted with English word lists, from The GDELT Project.

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Issues people are looking up

The top topics in politics, the economy, tech, science, health, climate, education and society that people here read and search about today.

  1. Conlan Houston, CC BY-SA 4.0

    1Abdul El-Sayed

    Weekly

    Politics & world affairs · Wikipedia · 308 reads

  2. The White House, Public domain

    2Jensen Huang

    Breakout

    Business & economy · Google Trends · 200+ searches

  3. 3Canva

    Sustained

    Tech & AI · Google Trends · 100+ searches

  4. 4Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

    Politics & world affairs · Wikipedia · 343 reads

  5. MFRK1, CC BY-SA 4.0

    5Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

    Politics & world affairs · Wikipedia · 166 reads

  6. 6Fahad Yusuf Al-Sabah

    Politics & world affairs · Wikipedia · 157 reads

  7. 7List of countries and dependencies by population

    Business & economy · Wikipedia · 139 reads

  8. יהב טרודלר (Yahav Trudler - Yahav Studio‬‏), CC BY-SA 3.0

    8Gadi Eisenkot

    Politics & world affairs · Wikipedia · 124 reads


By category

Business & economy

  1. The White House, Public domain

    1Jensen Huang

    Breakout

    Google Trends · 200+ searches

Crime & justice

  1. 1Fahad Al Rajaan

    Wikipedia · 97 reads

Books, arts & history

  1. J. Malcolm Greany, Public domain

    1Ansel Adams

    Wikipedia · 127 reads

Movies & TV

  1. 1Ramayana: Part 1

    New

    Wikipedia · 1,117 reads

  2. 2Obsess

    Breakout

    Netflix Top 10 · #1 in TV

  3. 3Surviving Hurricane Otis

    Rising

    Netflix Top 10 · #1 in films

Music

  1. 2017 Canada Summer Games, CC BY 2.0

    1Faouzia

    Rising

    Apple Music · #26 in songs

  2. Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0

    2Olivia Dean

    Rising

    Apple Music · #20 in songs

  3. Frank Schwichtenberg, CC BY-SA 4.0

    3Future

    Falling

    Apple Music · #11 in songs

Celebrities & creators

  1. Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών . Cropped by User:Andrew Dalby, CC BY-SA 2.0

    1Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah

    Wikipedia · 267 reads

Politics & world affairs

  1. Conlan Houston, CC BY-SA 4.0

    1Abdul El-Sayed

    Weekly

    Wikipedia · 308 reads

  2. 2Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

    Wikipedia · 343 reads

  3. MFRK1, CC BY-SA 4.0

    3Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

    Wikipedia · 166 reads

Sports

  1. Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0

    1Hamza Abdelkarim

    Breakout

    Google Trends · 200+ searches

  2. 2Alanyaspor

    Google Trends · 200+ searches

  3. 3Trabzonspor

    Google Trends · 200+ searches

Tech & AI

  1. 1Canva

    Sustained

    Google Trends · 100+ searches

Travel & places

  1. Muhammad Ashar, CC BY-SA 4.0

    1Pakistan

    Breakout

    Google Trends · 5,000+ searches

  2. National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Public domain

    2Sri Lanka

    Breakout

    Google Trends · 5,000+ searches

  3. 3Kuwait

    Wikipedia · 90 reads


Industries here

Music 35Media & entertainment 26Government & public sector 9Travel & tourism 3Sports & fitness 3Nonprofits & NGOs 2Tech & software 1


The numbers behind the mood

The latest official figures, with the period each one covers. Yearly numbers can be a year or more old.

Economy

Research

Most-published fields last month

  • Fuel Technology
    24 papers · rising +88%
  • Materials Chemistry
    15 papers · rising +57%
  • Clinical Neurology
    15 papers · rising +155%

OpenAlex

    Society


    Charts

    Netflix · TV

    1. 1Obsess

      Breakout

    2. 2Lupin

    3. 3Dead-End Job

      New

    4. 4Doctor X: Mafia in White

      Falling

    5. 6The One About Matthew Perry

    6. 7Akka: The Protectors

    7. 8Below

      Falling

    Netflix Top 10 · 2026-11-01

    Netflix · Films

    1. 1Surviving Hurricane Otis

      Rising

    2. 2Manoj Bajpayee

      Falling

    3. 3The Witches

      Rising

    4. 4Baththa

    5. 5Collision Course

    6. 6The Addams Family

    7. 7Avaraachan & Sons

    8. 8Dhoomakethu

    9. 9Animals

      Falling

    10. 10The Paradise

    Netflix Top 10 · 2026-11-01

    Apple Music · Artists

    1. 1Tate McRae

    2. 2Karol G

    3. 3Adéla

    4. 4Tul8te

    5. 5Ramy Sabry

    6. 6Marwan Pablo

    7. 7Drake

    8. 10Al Shami

    Apple Music · 2026-11-10


    Data credits: Apple Music · Google Trends · Netflix Top 10 · Wikipedia. These signals show what people look up, watch, play and buy online. How it works.

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