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Middle East / Israel · Politics

Israel closes British consulate in East Jerusalem

Rank
38
Running
11h
Updated
2h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
9
Regions
4
Countries
9
Languages
7

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CTV News Canada · English 8 Oct, 20:40 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Español (3) · Deutsch (1) · Magyar (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · العربية (1) · 中文 (1) · +5 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 12 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: HVG, 8 Oct, 15:47 UTC.
  2. Second country: Spain, with La Vanguardia.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 8 Oct, 15:47 UTC.
  4. Second region: Americas, with Semana.
  5. Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

13 of 13 hours

Earlier Later

The 9 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

33%45%

  • Americas 3 outlets · 3 countries · 33%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 4 countries · 45%
  • International 1 outlet · 11%

First movers

  1. HVG 8 Oct, 15:47 UTC
  2. La Vanguardia +17m
  3. Semana +1h 37m
  4. ERT +2h 45m
  5. Der Spiegel +4h 11m

Latest arrivals

  1. China News Service 9 Oct, 01:02 UTC
  2. INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed 9 Oct, 01:00 UTC
  3. Últimas Noticias 9 Oct, 00:01 UTC
  4. CTV News 8 Oct, 20:40 UTC
  5. Der Spiegel 8 Oct, 19:59 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Israel closes or downgrades British consulate in Jerusalem, 6 to 9 Oct 2026, 84 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 9 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 9 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 3: Canada, Colombia, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 1: China. Europe 4: Germany, Greece, Hungary, Spain. 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, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Hungarian, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article HVG, 8 Oct 2026, 15:47 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 16:00 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 01:02 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
4.14, 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
Continues Israel closes or downgrades British consulate in Jerusalem. 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
8 Oct 2026 123 5.89 6 6 6 6 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 8 Oct, 16:00 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 01:02 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Americas 3 outlets

  • Últimas Noticias Venezuela 9 Oct, 00:01 UTC
    Israel cierra consulado británico en Jerusalén
  • CTV News Canada 8 Oct, 20:40 UTC
    Britain's east Jerusalem consulate is downgraded to a mission in dispute with Israel
  • Semana Colombia 8 Oct, 17:24 UTC
    Crece la tensión entre Israel y Reino Unido por el consulado británico en Jerusalén

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • China News Service China 9 Oct, 01:02 UTC
    以色列驱逐20名英国外交官,要关掉近200年历史的领馆,现场一幕耐人寻味

Europe 4 outlets

  • Der Spiegel Germany 8 Oct, 19:59 UTC
    Israel: 1838 hat Großbritannien ein Konsulat in Jerusalem eröffnet. Jetzt ist Schluss
  • ERT Greece 8 Oct, 18:33 UTC
    Ισραήλ: Μειώνει δραστικά τη βρετανική διπλωματική παρουσία στην Ανατολική Ιερουσαλήμ
  • La Vanguardia Spain 8 Oct, 16:04 UTC
    La crisis entre Londres y Tel Aviv deja a Reino Unido sin consulado en Jerusalén
  • HVG Hungary 8 Oct, 15:47 UTC
    Diplomáciai válság: Izrael bezáratta a jeruzsálemi brit konzulátust, Nagy-Britannia kivár az ellenszankciókkal

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International 9 Oct, 01:00 UTC
    بريطانيا تخضع لبلطجة إسرائيل... القنصلية في القدس تحولت لـ"بعثة"
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