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EU condemns Houthi attack on Riyadh airport as dangerous escalation

Rank
Running
18h
Updated
11h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
9
Regions
3
Countries
8
Languages
6

Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 11 Oct, 09:08 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in العربية (3) · Français (1) · Shqip (1) · Македонски (1) · Српски (1) · +4 languages

Read at Anadolu Agency

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 18 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Anadolu Agency, 11 Oct, 09:08 UTC.
  2. Second country: Montenegro, with Vijesti.
  3. Second region: Europe, with Vijesti.
  4. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 11 Oct, 09:08 UTC.
  5. Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

19 of 19 hours

Earlier Later

The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Not drawn: Kosovo. Open the live map

The regions

22%45%33%

  • Africa 2 outlets · 1 country · 22%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 4 countries · 45%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 3 countries · 33%

First movers

  1. Anadolu Agency 11 Oct, 09:08 UTC
  2. Vijesti +5m
  3. SANA +26m
  4. RTÉ +34m
  5. Aden Al-Ghad +1h 19m

Latest arrivals

  1. La Presse de Tunisie 11 Oct, 15:48 UTC
  2. Telegrafi 11 Oct, 14:00 UTC
  3. Mosaïque FM 11 Oct, 12:28 UTC
  4. Telma TV 11 Oct, 11:48 UTC
  5. Aden Al-Ghad 11 Oct, 10:27 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 8 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 9 outlets, 2 state-owned, 1 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Tunisia. Europe 4: Ireland, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia. Middle East 3: Syria, Turkey, Yemen. 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, English, French, Macedonian, Albanian, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article Anadolu Agency, 11 Oct 2026, 09:08 UTC. First seen 11 Oct 2026, 09:10 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 15:48 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, Saudi Arabia. Topic Conflict & Security. 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
0.69, 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
11 Oct 2026 94 6.63 9 8 9 8 4.7

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How this was measured

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Started 11 Oct, 09:10 UTC · Updated 15:48 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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  • La Presse de Tunisie Tunisia 11 Oct, 15:48 UTC
    Aéroport International de Riyad : Ursula von der Leyen condamne l’attaque des Houthis
  • Telegrafi Kosovo 11 Oct, 14:00 UTC
    Von der Leyen: Sulmet e Houthi-ve po e çojnë Lindjen e Mesme drejt një spiraleje dhune
  • Mosaïque FM Tunisia 11 Oct, 12:28 UTC
    المفوضية الأوروبية: هجوم مطار الرياض يُهدّد استقرار خطوط النقل والطاقة
  • Telma TV North Macedonia 11 Oct, 11:48 UTC
    Функционери на ЕУ го осудија нападот врз аеродромот во Ријад
  • Aden Al-Ghad Yemen 11 Oct, 10:27 UTC
    رئيسة المفوضية الأوروبية: هجوم الحوثي على مطار الرياض "تصعيد خطير"
  • RTÉ Ireland 11 Oct, 09:42 UTC
    Attack on Riyadh 'a dangerous escalation' - von der Leyen
  • SANA Syria 11 Oct, 09:33 UTC
    المفوضية الأوروبية تؤكد تضامنها مع السعودية وتصف استهداف مطار الرياض بالتصعيد الخطير
  • Vijesti Montenegro 11 Oct, 09:13 UTC
    Fon der Lajen i Gutereš osudili napade Hutija na aerodrom u Rijadu
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Fon der Lajen i Gutereš osudili napade Huta na aerodrom u Rijadu 11 Oct, 09:13 UTC
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 11 Oct, 09:08 UTC
    EU chief warns of 'dangerous escalation' after Houthi attack on Riyadh airport
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