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Pope condemns France's assisted dying legalization as immoral

Rank
Ran
35h
Updated
7d ago
Final
Outlets
36
Regions
5
Countries
26
Languages
12

+16

Where it travelled

The 26 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

34%47%

  • Africa 3 outlets · 2 countries · 8%
  • Americas 12 outlets · 8 countries · 34%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 8%
  • Europe 17 outlets · 12 countries · 47%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 3%

The figures

Coverage
36 outlets in 26 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 36 outlets, 5 public-service, 31 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 2: Nigeria, South Africa. Americas 8: Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay. Asia-Pacific 3: India, Japan, New Zealand. Europe 12: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: 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
Czech, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian.
Timeline
Earliest article The Independent, 27 Sept 2026, 06:01 UTC. First seen 27 Sept 2026, 06:20 UTC. Last seen 28 Sept 2026, 18:13 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, France. Topic Culture. 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
23.41, at the end of the last day measured. 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
27 Sept 2026 16 34.77 34 24 34 24 3.3
28 Sept 2026 36 23.41 36 26 2 2 3.3

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 27 Sept, 06:20 UTC · Updated 28 Sept, 18:13 UTC

Covered by 36 outlets

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Africa 3 outlets

  • Punch Nigeria
  • TimesLIVE South Africa
  • Vanguard Nigeria

Americas 12 outlets

  • ABC News United States
  • CBS News United States
  • CTV News Canada
  • El Comercio Peru
  • El Observador (CR) Costa Rica
  • El País (UY) Uruguay
  • El Sol de México Mexico
  • Estadão Brazil
  • Fox News United States
  • Global News Canada
  • Jamaica Observer Jamaica
  • National Post Canada

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • Stuff New Zealand
  • The Hindu India
  • The Mainichi Japan

Europe 17 outlets

  • 15min Lithuania
  • Die Zeit Germany
  • Digi24 Romania
  • ERT Greece
  • HotNews Romania
  • iDNES Czechia
  • Kommersant Russia
  • Le Figaro France
  • Libération France
  • LRT Lithuania
  • Lrytas Lithuania
  • Observador Portugal
  • ORF Austria
  • RTP Portugal
  • The Independent United Kingdom
  • VRT NWS Belgium
  • Wirtualna Polska Poland

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Arab News Saudi Arabia

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