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Palestinian factions likely to postpone legislative elections

Rank
Running
16h
Updated
4h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
7
Regions
2
Countries
5
Languages
3

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Arab News Saudi Arabia · English 8 Oct, 13:04 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in עברית (2) · العربية (2) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 17 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Al Modon, 8 Oct, 11:14 UTC.
  2. Second country: Saudi Arabia, with Arab News.
  3. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 8 Oct, 15:25 UTC.
  4. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Times of India.
  5. Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

17 of 17 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

14%86%

  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • Middle East 6 outlets · 4 countries · 86%

First movers

  1. Al Modon 8 Oct, 11:14 UTC
  2. Arab News +1h 50m
  3. Ynet +4h 11m
  4. The National +4h 12m
  5. Israel Hayom (he) +4h 32m

Latest arrivals

  1. An-Nahar 8 Oct, 23:49 UTC
  2. Times of India 8 Oct, 16:30 UTC
  3. Israel Hayom (he) 8 Oct, 15:46 UTC
  4. The National 8 Oct, 15:25 UTC
  5. Ynet 8 Oct, 15:25 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: India. Middle East 4: Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, 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, English, Hebrew.
Timeline
Earliest article Al Modon, 8 Oct 2026, 11:14 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 11:30 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 23:49 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 Middle East, Palestinian Territories. 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
0.92, 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
8 Oct 2026 138 5.28 6 5 6 5 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 8 Oct, 11:30 UTC · Updated 23:49 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Times of India India 8 Oct, 16:30 UTC
    Palestine factions could postpone elections amid Israeli complications, internal feud

Middle East 6 outlets

  • An-Nahar Lebanon 8 Oct, 23:49 UTC
    استعصاء الإصلاح والانتخابات فلسطينياً
    +2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
    • استعصاء الإصلاح والانتخابات فلسطينياً 8 Oct, 23:49 UTC
    • استعصاء الإصلاح والانتخابات فلسطينياً 8 Oct, 23:49 UTC
  • Israel Hayom (he) Israel 8 Oct, 15:46 UTC
    דיווחים: אבו מאזן צפוי לדחות את הבחירות ברשות הפלסטינית
  • The National United Arab Emirates 8 Oct, 15:25 UTC
    Highly anticipated Palestinian elections likely to be postponed, sources say
  • Ynet Israel 8 Oct, 15:25 UTC
    מסתמן: הבחירות לפרלמנט הפלסטיני יידחו. איך יגיבו המדינות התורמות?
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia 8 Oct, 13:04 UTC
    Palestinian factions move to delay the first legislative elections in 20 years
  • Al Modon Lebanon 8 Oct, 11:14 UTC
    عباس يعتزم تأجيل الانتخابات بالتوافق مع الفصائل الفلسطينية
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