Your product knows the places. Add what’s happening around them.
Find reported strikes, operational disruption and industrial developments. Put structured Events and source evidence beside the sites and routes your application already tracks.
Choose a region and a disruption question. 3 records in this saved page.
01 / EVENT
Skeyes strike cancels 46 flights at Charleroi airport
On 2026-09-19, Skeyes air-traffic controllers' strike canceled 46 flights at Brussels South Charleroi Airport in Belgium, including departures and matching arrivals. The walkouts were scheduled nightly from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. through October 10, disrupting passenger air transport and potentially stranding travelers. The article does not report deliberate infrastructure sabotage.
Location
Brussels South Charleroi Airport, Belgiumexact place
Slovakia hands Ukraine its first electric locomotives
Occurrence date inferred from publication. Verify the original reporting before treating it as the date the event happened.
On 2026-09-21, Slovakia handed Ukraine its first electric locomotives at the Carpathian summit. The transfer supports Ukraine's railway capacity amid intensified Russian strikes on railway infrastructure, but the article gives no locomotive count or deployment details.
Occurrence date inferred from publication. Verify the original reporting before treating it as the date the event happened.
On 2026-09-20, additional diesel fuel was reportedly delivered to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine, for reserve generators supporting the station during external power interruptions. The article gives no quantity and does not report a new outage. It also references reported strikes on fuel trucks on September 11, but that earlier incident is contextual to the current delivery update.
Location
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Enerhodar, Ukraineexact place
Use This Data Exact request · JSON · curl · Python · TypeScript
Captured 2026-09-25. These are the exact saved dates and identifiers. Running this request again can return changed results.
GET https://gdeltcloud.com/api/v2/events?date_start=2026-09-18&date_end=2026-09-24&limit=3&include_images=false&include_entity_images=false&sort=significance&bbox=34%2C-25%2C72%2C45&search=strike&search_mode=lexical&category=Protests%2CINFRASTRUCTURE%2CECONOMIC%2CCORPORATE&confidence_min=0.5&significance_min=0.1
Pagination: this is one saved page. Follow the response’s pagination contract to retrieve additional pages; each request uses additional QU. Treat incomplete coverage as incomplete, including an empty result.
All requested dates were served in this capture. 7 served dates. Recorded examples are historical; current results may differ.
INSIDE THE EVENT RECORD
What happened. Who’s involved. Why it deserves attention.
GDELT Cloud adds structured classification, actor roles, geographic precision and explainable Event metrics to the raw article stream. Here is what the API returned for one Event in this workflow.
CAMEOPLUS · IN02
Skeyes strike cancels 46 flights at Charleroi airport
Transport Disruption · 2026-09-19
Reported location
Brussels South Charleroi Airport, Belgiumexact place
Occurrence date basis
explicit date
Evidence returned
3 articles · 1 evidence sources · 1 supporting StoriesArticle volume is not a count of independent corroborations.
source actorSkeyes
target actorBrussels South Charleroi Airport
SCORES FROM THIS RESPONSE
Significance0.42 / 1
Prioritize within the returned feed.
Coding confidence0.97 / 1
How confidently the reporting was coded.
Magnitude3.0 / 10
Intensity on the event’s domain scale.
Systemic importance0.37 / 1
How much the wider system depends on the node.
Propagation potential0.55 / 1
Potential for effects to travel beyond the event.
Market sensitivity0.38 / 1
Exposure of traded claims to the development.
Model judgments for prioritization, not measured losses or calibrated probabilities. Compare magnitude within its event domain. Missing scores stay unknown.
Open the reasoning returned with these scores
Magnitude
The Skeyes strike caused 46 flight cancellations at a major Belgian airport, a significant but localized transport disruption.
Systemic importance · interconnectedness
Flight cancellations affect passengers, airlines, and connecting travel services.
Propagation · transmission channel
Operational dependency connects air traffic control directly to airport departures and arrivals, with effects on airlines and passengers.
Market sensitivity · economic effect
The disruption is in force but partial and time-bounded: 46 flights were canceled for Saturday amid nightly strike action.
THREE STEPS, A WORKING WORKFLOW
Choose your scope. Inspect the evidence. Use the records.
01
Choose a region and a disruption question.
Dates, topics, places and classification are explicit request parameters.
02
Narrow the returned Events and inspect the reporting.
Keep original sources, model scores and coverage beside the result.
03
Connect the records to your own site or supplier workflow.
Copy a request into your application. Start with one bounded page.
DATA BEHIND THIS WORKFLOW
Add nearby infrastructure
GDELT Cloud codes Events and clusters Stories from the raw GDELT article stream. These structured records are GDELT Cloud outputs; GDELT’s own coded Events, themes and tone are not inputs.
See registry facilities near a reported location. Keep the reported development and independently dated asset record side by side, with the relationship made explicit.
Within 50 km of the location returned for “Skeyes strike cancels 46 flights at Charleroi airport”. Proximity is context, not evidence that these assets were affected.
A paying logistics-software customer repeatedly queries European and Americas regions for disruption-related Events, using confidence and significance filters. A supplier-software customer retrieves Events by category.
Based on observed recurring requests from paying accounts. This adapted demo is illustrative; the additional dataset combination is a possibility you can build, not a claim about the customer’s deployment.
WORK WITH WHAT YOU HAVE
Fill a gap. Or build your first version.
Alongside your existing workflow
Add external reporting to the locations, suppliers and shipments already in your product. Your own records supply those business relationships.
From a blank page
Start with a regional watch in Explore, inspect the JSON, then embed a bounded Event feed in your first dashboard.
YOUR WORKLOAD, MADE EXPLICIT
Small start. Room to build.
Model the whole retrieval workflow before you integrate it. Adjust polling, pagination, detail calls and additional context.
This estimate uses 30 days. Detail calls are 1 QU each; saved enrichment is charged once per run. Retries default to zero. It does not include other account usage.
720 QU / month720 requests including the retry allowance
Builder · $59/month
Lowest current public monthly plan covering these QU and required REST capabilities. 1,500 QU included.
Annual option: $590 billed yearly.
Hosted Monitors are separate: 3 capacity · daily minimum cadence. This calculator models API polling.
The demo is the beginning. The API is the product.
Copy the captured request in curl, Python or TypeScript above. For an AI workflow, connect the GDELT Cloud MCP server and ask your client to use the same supported filters. Inspect the tool’s current schema before calling it; REST query names are not assumed to be MCP argument names.
