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European prosecutors investigate former Belgian Premier Verhofstadt

Rank
Ran
44h
Updated
10h ago
Closed
Outlets
9
Regions
2
Countries
6
Languages
6

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Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 4 Oct, 12:38 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Magyar (2) · Nederlands (2) · Eesti (1) · Français (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, 9 after 44 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Het Laatste Nieuws, 3 Oct, 15:36 UTC.
  2. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 3 Oct, 15:36 UTC.
  3. Second country: Turkey, with Anadolu Agency.
  4. Second region: Middle East, with Anadolu Agency.
  5. Last article: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

45 of 45 hours

Earlier Later

The 6 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

78%

  • Europe 7 outlets · 4 countries · 78%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • International 1 outlet · 11%

First movers

  1. Het Laatste Nieuws 3 Oct, 15:36 UTC
  2. Le Soir +26m
  3. VRT NWS +34m
  4. Anadolu Agency +21h 2m
  5. Index +23h 35m

Last to join

  1. Telex 5 Oct, 11:45 UTC
  2. Postimees 5 Oct, 06:36 UTC
  3. Blic 4 Oct, 18:26 UTC
  4. INTLPolitico Europe 4 Oct, 17:46 UTC
  5. Index 4 Oct, 15:11 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 6 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. 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
Europe 4: Belgium, Estonia, Hungary, Serbia. Middle East 1: Turkey. 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
English, Estonian, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article Het Laatste Nieuws, 3 Oct 2026, 15:36 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 15:40 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 11:45 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, Belgium. 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
0.20, 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
4 Oct 2026 142 3.95 7 5 5 5 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 3 Oct, 15:40 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 11:45 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Europe 7 outlets

  • Telex Hungary 5 Oct, 11:45 UTC
    Orbán egyik régi ellenfeléről is információkat kértek egy belgiumi nyomozásban
  • Postimees Estonia 5 Oct, 06:36 UTC
    Belgia võimud uurivad endise peaministri Verhofstadti tegevust Euroopa Parlamendis
  • Blic Serbia 4 Oct, 18:26 UTC
    SKANDAL TRESE EVROPSKI PARLAMENT! Bivši premijer POD ISTRAGOM, ispituje se period od ČAK DESET GODINA
  • Le Soir Belgium 4 Oct, 16:13 UTC
    Guy Verhofstadt serait dans le viseur du Parquet européen
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Guy Verhofstadt visé par une enquête européenne 3 Oct, 16:01 UTC
  • Index Hungary 4 Oct, 15:11 UTC
    Rendőrségi vizsgálat indult Guy Verhofstadt ügyében, az OLAF is bekapcsolódott
  • VRT NWS Belgium 3 Oct, 16:10 UTC
    Europees onderzoek naar ex-premier en voormalig Europees Parlementslid Guy Verhofstadt
  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium 3 Oct, 15:36 UTC
    Europees onderzoek naar ex-premier Guy Verhofstadt
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    • Europees onderzoek naar ex-premier Guy Verhofstadt voor inzetten stagiairs 3 Oct, 15:36 UTC

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 4 Oct, 12:38 UTC
    European prosecutors investigate former Belgian premier Guy Verhofstadt: Report

International 1 outlet

  • INTLPolitico Europe International 4 Oct, 17:46 UTC
    Former Belgian PM Verhofstadt investigated in EU Parliament intern probe
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