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US excludes Baltic states from NATO meeting

Rank
Ran
21h
Updated
4d ago
Closed
Outlets
10
Regions
2
Countries
8
Languages
8

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Postimees Estonia · Estonian 1 Oct, 03:51 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Lietuvių (3) · Čeština (1) · Latviešu (1) · Polski (1) · Suomi (1) · Русский (1) · فارسی (1) · +6 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 22 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Postimees, 1 Oct, 03:51 UTC.
  2. Second country: Lithuania, with Lrytas.
  3. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 1 Oct, 06:45 UTC.
  4. Second region: Middle East, with Shargh.
  5. Last article: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

22 of 22 hours

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The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

90%

  • Europe 9 outlets · 7 countries · 90%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 10%

First movers

  1. Postimees 1 Oct, 03:51 UTC
  2. Lrytas +2h 54m
  3. LRT +2h 56m
  4. 15min +3h 39m
  5. Kommersant +4h 59m

Last to join

  1. Iltalehti 2 Oct, 01:46 UTC
  2. Wirtualna Polska 1 Oct, 14:07 UTC
  3. ČT24 1 Oct, 13:11 UTC
  4. TVNET 1 Oct, 11:46 UTC
  5. Shargh 1 Oct, 09:23 UTC

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 8 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 2 public-service, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 7: Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia. Middle East 1: Iran. 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, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Russian.
Timeline
Earliest article Postimees, 1 Oct 2026, 03:51 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 04:10 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 01:46 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 International. 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
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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
1 Oct 2026 279 4.32 9 7 9 7 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 04:10 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 01:46 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Europe 9 outlets

  • Iltalehti Finland 2 Oct, 01:46 UTC
    Politico: Yhdysvallat sulki keskeiset Nato-maat ulos kokouksesta – Näin kävi Suomen
  • Wirtualna Polska Poland 1 Oct, 14:07 UTC
    Zostali wykluczeni. Oni nie dostali zaproszenia na szczyt w Polsce
  • ČT24 Czechia 1 Oct, 13:11 UTC
    Pentagon vyřadil některé evropské země z plánovaného setkání NATO
  • TVNET Latvia 1 Oct, 11:46 UTC
    ASV uz sarunām par NATO nākotni neuzaicina Baltijas valstis, Franciju un Lielbritāniju
  • Kommersant Russia 1 Oct, 08:50 UTC
    Politico: США не пригласили на встречу НАТО нескольких союзников // Politico: Пентагон США не пригласил часть европейских союзников на встречу НАТО
  • 15min Lithuania 1 Oct, 07:30 UTC
    JAV nepakvietė Baltijos šalių, JK ir Prancūzijos į NATO susitikimą
  • LRT Lithuania 1 Oct, 06:47 UTC
    „Politico“: Pentagonas nepakvietė Baltijos šalių į NATO susitikimą
  • Lrytas Lithuania 1 Oct, 06:45 UTC
    Baltijos šalims – JAV smūgis: nepakvietė į NATO susitikimą
  • Postimees Estonia 1 Oct, 03:51 UTC
    BALTIMAAD UKSE TAGA ⟩ Pentagon jätab võtmeliitlased NATO tulevikku käsitlevalt kohtumiselt kõrvale

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Shargh Iran 1 Oct, 09:23 UTC
    آمریکا چند متحد اصلی ناتو را به جلسه دعوت نکرد
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