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Georgia arrests man attempting to sell uranium-238 for $700,000

Rank
Running
19h
Updated
10h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
8
Regions
3
Countries
6
Languages
6

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The Jerusalem Post Israel · English 7 Oct, 13:50 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Polski (2) · Русский (2) · Español (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · Српски (1) · +4 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 20 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Interfax, 7 Oct, 08:03 UTC.
  2. Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
  3. Second region: Americas, with Infobae.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 7 Oct, 08:03 UTC.
  5. Now: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

20 of 20 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

13%75%12%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Europe 6 outlets · 4 countries · 75%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 12%

First movers

  1. Interfax 7 Oct, 08:03 UTC
  2. Infobae +27m
  3. Kommersant +56m
  4. TVN24 +4h 39m
  5. Proto Thema +5h 17m

Latest arrivals

  1. Blic 7 Oct, 15:22 UTC
  2. Wirtualna Polska 7 Oct, 14:24 UTC
  3. The Jerusalem Post 7 Oct, 13:50 UTC
  4. Proto Thema 7 Oct, 13:20 UTC
  5. TVN24 7 Oct, 12:41 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 8 outlets, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Argentina. Europe 4: Greece, Poland, Russia, Serbia. Middle East 1: Israel. 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
Greek, English, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article Interfax, 7 Oct 2026, 08:03 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 08:10 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 16:46 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, Georgia. Topic Conflict & security. 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
0.65, 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
7 Oct 2026 151 5.37 8 6 8 6 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 7 Oct, 08:10 UTC · Updated 16:46 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • Infobae Argentina 7 Oct, 16:46 UTC
    Detenido en Georgia un hombre por tratar de vender uranio-238 por valor de 625.000 euros
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Georgia detiene a un hombre que intentaba vender uranio-238 por 700.000 dólares 7 Oct, 08:30 UTC

Europe 6 outlets

  • Blic Serbia 7 Oct, 15:22 UTC
    Muškarac stranom državljaninu hteo da proda URANIJUM, uhapsile ga gruzijske službe državne bezbednosti: Objavljen snimak
  • Wirtualna Polska Poland 7 Oct, 14:24 UTC
    Rzucili go na ziemię i skuli. W tle handel uranem w Gruzji
  • Proto Thema Greece 7 Oct, 13:20 UTC
    Άνδρας στη Γεωργία προσπάθησε να πουλήσει ουράνιο έναντι 700.000 δολαρίων, βίντεο με την στιγμή της σύλληψης
  • TVN24 Poland 7 Oct, 12:41 UTC
    Próbował sprzedać uran za 700 tysięcy dolarów. Został aresztowany
  • Kommersant Russia 7 Oct, 08:59 UTC
    В Грузии задержали гражданина за попытку продать уран
  • Interfax Russia 7 Oct, 08:03 UTC
    В Грузии пресечена попытка продажи урана иностранцу

Middle East 1 outlet

  • The Jerusalem Post Israel 7 Oct, 13:50 UTC
    Georgia arrests man for selling radioactive uranium-238 to foreign national for $700,000
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