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South Korean ambassador returns home from Ukraine amid dispute over POW transfer

Rank
Running
32h
Updated
25h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
7
Regions
2
Countries
6
Languages
5

An-Nahar Lebanon · Arabic 10 Oct, 03:33 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Lietuvių (2) · Português (1) · Русский (1) · فارسی (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 33 hours.

2 4 6 8
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: An-Nahar, 10 Oct, 03:33 UTC.
  2. Second country: United Arab Emirates, with Sky News Arabia.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 10 Oct, 03:33 UTC.
  4. Second region: Europe, with RTP.
  5. Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

34 of 34 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

57%43%

  • Europe 4 outlets · 3 countries · 57%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 3 countries · 43%

First movers

  1. An-Nahar 10 Oct, 03:33 UTC
  2. Sky News Arabia +11m
  3. RTP +4h 51m
  4. Fontanka +5h 14m
  5. Lrytas +5h 58m

Latest arrivals

  1. Shargh 10 Oct, 11:18 UTC
  2. 15min 10 Oct, 10:20 UTC
  3. Lrytas 10 Oct, 09:31 UTC
  4. Fontanka 10 Oct, 08:47 UTC
  5. RTP 10 Oct, 08:24 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 6 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 7 outlets, 1 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 3: Lithuania, Portugal, Russia. Middle East 3: Iran, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, Persian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian.
Timeline
Earliest article An-Nahar, 10 Oct 2026, 03:33 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 03:50 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 11:18 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, Ukraine. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.17, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
10 Oct 2026 197 3.34 7 6 7 6 4.7

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How this was measured

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Started 10 Oct, 03:50 UTC · Updated 11:18 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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  • Shargh Iran 10 Oct, 11:18 UTC
    بازگشت اعتراضی سفیر کره‌جنوبی از اوکراین پس از افشای انتقال اسرای جنگی
  • 15min Lithuania 10 Oct, 10:20 UTC
    Po ginčo dėl karo belaisvių į Pietų Korėją grįžo jos ambasadorius Ukrainoje
  • Lrytas Lithuania 10 Oct, 09:31 UTC
    Gilėjant diplomatiniam ginčui su Ukraina, Pietų Korėjos ambasadorius grįžo į tėvynę
  • Fontanka Russia 10 Oct, 08:47 UTC
    Посол Южной Кореи покинул Украину после скандала
  • RTP Portugal 10 Oct, 08:24 UTC
    Embaixador da Coreia do Sul na Ucrânia regressa a Seul após diferendo diplomático
  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates 10 Oct, 03:44 UTC
    بسبب أسيرين كوريين شماليين.. سفير كوريا الجنوبية يغادر كييف
  • An-Nahar Lebanon 10 Oct, 03:33 UTC
    سفير كوريا الجنوبية لدى أوكرانيا يعود إلى بلاده عقب خلاف بشأن أسيرَي حرب
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    • سفير كوريا الجنوبية لدى أوكرانيا يعود إلى بلاده عقب خلاف بشأن أسيرَي حرب 10 Oct, 03:33 UTC
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