Middle East / Israel · Politics

Israel closes or downgrades British consulate in Jerusalem

Rank
Ran: 2d
Updated: 3h ago
Closed
Outlets: 84
Regions: 5
Countries: 48
Languages: 24

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Al Jazeera, 6 Oct, 14:47 UTC.
Second country: Russia, with TASS.
Second region: Europe, with TASS.
Fastest hour: +19 outlets from 8 Oct, 06:45 UTC.
Last article: 84 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 48 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 3 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

12%18%42%19%

Africa 5 outlets · 4 countries · 6%
Americas 10 outlets · 6 countries · 12%
Asia-Pacific 15 outlets · 9 countries · 18%
Europe 35 outlets · 19 countries · 42%
Middle East 16 outlets · 9 countries · 19%
International 3 outlets · 3%

First movers

Al Jazeera 6 Oct, 14:47 UTC
TASS +34h 16m
VOV +36h 21m
Sky News Arabia +37h 45m
Asharq News +37h 48m

Last to join

Daily Times 9 Oct, 00:00 UTC
Syria TV 8 Oct, 17:14 UTC
The Hindu 8 Oct, 17:09 UTC
CBS News 8 Oct, 16:02 UTC
El País 8 Oct, 15:35 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 84 outlets in 48 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 84 outlets, 7 state-owned, 8 public-service, 69 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 4: Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, South Africa. Americas 6: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Jamaica, United States. Asia-Pacific 9: China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 19: Austria, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. Middle East 9: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Al Jazeera, 6 Oct 2026, 14:47 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 15:10 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 00:00 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, Israel. 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: 3.81, 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.
Chain: Continued by Israel closes British consulate in Jerusalem amid diplomatic crisis. Merged from 2 stories Israel closes UK consulate in East Jerusalem over sanctions; UK maintains Jerusalem consulate as mission despite Israeli closure order. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
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 5 36.70 83 48 83 48 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 6 Oct, 15:10 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 00:00 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 84 outlets

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Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 84 outlets

Africa 5 outlets

Americas 10 outlets

Asia-Pacific 15 outlets

Europe 35 outlets

Middle East 16 outlets

International 3 outlets