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US approves visas for Iranian leaders to attend UN General Assembly

Rank
Ran
22h
Updated
17d ago
Final
Outlets
44
Regions
5
Countries
30
Languages
13

+20

Where it travelled

The 30 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. 3 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

18%18%30%23%

  • Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 4%
  • Americas 8 outlets · 5 countries · 18%
  • Asia-Pacific 8 outlets · 7 countries · 18%
  • Europe 13 outlets · 10 countries · 30%
  • Middle East 10 outlets · 6 countries · 23%
  • International 3 outlets · 7%

The figures

Coverage
44 outlets in 30 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 44 outlets, 3 state-owned, 3 public-service, 38 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 2: Nigeria, South Africa. Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, United States. Asia-Pacific 7: Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand. Europe 10: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Spain, United Kingdom. Middle East 6: Israel, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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, French, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Thai.
Timeline
Earliest article Al Modon, 17 Sept 2026, 05:54 UTC. First seen 17 Sept 2026, 18:50 UTC. Last seen 18 Sept 2026, 17:22 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 Americas, United States. Topic Politics. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). 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
25.57, 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.
Chain
Continued by Iran's President Addresses UN General Assembly. 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
17 Sept 2026 17 34.91 35 25 – – 1.2
18 Sept 2026 34 25.57 44 30 – – 1.3

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How this was measured

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Started 17 Sept, 18:50 UTC · Updated 18 Sept, 17:22 UTC

Covered by 44 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

  • TimesLIVE South Africa
  • Vanguard Nigeria

Americas 8 outlets

  • Bloomberg United States
  • Clarín Argentina
  • CTV News Canada
  • Estadão Brazil
  • G1 Brazil
  • Infobae Argentina
  • La Tercera Chile
  • NBC News United States

Asia-Pacific 8 outlets

  • CNA Singapore
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • NDTV India
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong
  • Tempo Indonesia
  • Thairath Thailand
  • The Asahi Shimbun Japan
  • The Hindu India

Europe 13 outlets

  • Cyprus Mail Cyprus
  • Der Standard Austria
  • Digi24 Romania
  • El Mundo Spain
  • ERT Greece
  • Gazeta Wyborcza Poland
  • Le Figaro France
  • Le Monde France
  • N1 Serbia
  • ORF Austria
  • Reuters United Kingdom
  • The Independent United Kingdom
  • VRT NWS Belgium

Middle East 10 outlets

  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • Al Modon Lebanon
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Asharq News Saudi Arabia
  • Daily Sabah Turkey
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates
  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates
  • The Jerusalem Post Israel
  • The National United Arab Emirates

International 3 outlets

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International
  • INTLAl-Monitor International
  • INTLMiddle East Eye International

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