Middle East / Yemen · Conflict & Security

Yemen government forces recapture Red Sea strait from Houthis

Rank
Running: 18h
Updated: 1h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 58
Regions: 5
Countries: 40
Languages: 18

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Arab News, 5 Oct, 05:19 UTC.
Second country: Austria, with Der Standard.
Second region: Europe, with Der Standard.
Fastest hour: +16 outlets from 5 Oct, 09:40 UTC.
Now: 58 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 40 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 2 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

14%26%40%14%

Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 3%
Americas 8 outlets · 5 countries · 14%
Asia-Pacific 15 outlets · 10 countries · 26%
Europe 23 outlets · 16 countries · 40%
Middle East 8 outlets · 6 countries · 14%
International 2 outlets · 3%

First movers

Arab News 5 Oct, 05:19 UTC
Der Standard +2h 56m
Aftonbladet +4h 10m
GMA News +4h 14m
Al Jazeera +4h 21m

Latest arrivals

The Japan Times 6 Oct, 01:29 UTC
BBC News 6 Oct, 01:05 UTC
The Hindu 6 Oct, 00:10 UTC
Tengrinews 5 Oct, 22:25 UTC
FNN 5 Oct, 22:04 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 58 outlets in 40 countries, across 5 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 58 outlets, 4 state-owned, 8 public-service, 46 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Nigeria, Tunisia. Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 10: Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam. Europe 16: Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 6: Iran, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Arab News, 5 Oct 2026, 05:19 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 08:20 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 01:29 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, Yemen. 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: 10.17, 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

5 Oct 2026 18 21.84 54 40 54 40 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 08:20 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 01:29 UTC

Covered by 58 outlets

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Covered by 58 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Americas 8 outlets

Asia-Pacific 15 outlets

Europe 23 outlets

Middle East 8 outlets

International 2 outlets