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UAE and Saudi Arabia advance to Gulf Cup final

Rank
Ran
17h
Updated
2d ago
Final
Outlets
4
Regions
2
Countries
3
Languages
2

+0

Times of Oman Oman · English 3 Oct, 03:42 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in العربية (3) · +0 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 4 after 18 hours.

1 2 3 4
0h 6h 12h 18h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Times of Oman, 3 Oct, 03:42 UTC.
  2. Second country: Saudi Arabia, with Al Watan (SA).
  3. Second region: Africa, with Mosaïque FM.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 3 Oct, 20:27 UTC.
  5. Last article: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

19 of 19 hours

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The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Africa 2 outlets · 1 country · 50%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 50%

First movers

  1. Times of Oman 3 Oct, 03:42 UTC
  2. Al Watan (SA) +16h 45m
  3. Mosaïque FM +17h 2m
  4. Al Chourouk +18h 6m

The figures

Coverage
4 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Tunisia. Middle East 2: Oman, Saudi Arabia. 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, English.
Timeline
Earliest article Times of Oman, 3 Oct 2026, 03:42 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 03:50 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 21:48 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 International. Topic Sport. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off 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
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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.
Chain
Continued by الإمارات.. هدف واحد لمعادلة أفضل حصيلة. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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
3 Oct 2026 316 2.52 3 2 3 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 3 Oct, 03:50 UTC · Updated 21:48 UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

  • Al Chourouk Tunisia 3 Oct, 21:48 UTC
    الإمارات تقصي عُمان وتضرب موعدا مع السعودية في نهائي "خليجي 2027"
  • Mosaïque FM Tunisia 3 Oct, 20:44 UTC
    خليجي 27: الإمارات والسعودية في النهائي

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Al Watan (SA) Saudi Arabia 3 Oct, 20:27 UTC
    الأبيض يواجه الأخضر بنهائي خليجي 27
  • Times of Oman Oman 3 Oct, 06:17 UTC
    Oman face UAE in Gulf Cup semi-final tomorrow
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    • Oman team to face the United Arab Emirates in Arabian Gulf Cup on Saturday 3 Oct, 03:42 UTC
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