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Asia-Pacific / Azerbaijan · Politics

Azerbaijan pardons French spy after EU lifts Russian oligarch sanctions

Rank
Ran
46h
Updated
11d ago
Final
Outlets
34
Regions
5
Countries
23
Languages
15

+12

Where it travelled

The 23 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. 2 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

76%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 3%
  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 6%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 3%
  • Europe 26 outlets · 16 countries · 76%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 6%
  • International 2 outlets · 6%

The figures

Coverage
34 outlets in 23 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 34 outlets, 2 state-owned, 5 public-service, 27 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Algeria. Americas 2: Argentina, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 16: Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Qatar, 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
Arabic, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish.
Timeline
Earliest article Le Monde, 22 Sept 2026, 14:50 UTC. First seen 22 Sept 2026, 15:00 UTC. Last seen 24 Sept 2026, 13:22 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 Asia-Pacific, Azerbaijan. 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
13.90, 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.
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
23 Sept 2026 36 24.77 31 21 31 21 3.3
24 Sept 2026 (partial) 80 13.90 34 23 2 2 3.3

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How this was measured

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Started 22 Sept, 15:00 UTC · Updated 24 Sept, 13:22 UTC

Covered by 34 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Algérie360 Algeria

Americas 2 outlets

  • Bloomberg United States
  • Infobae Argentina

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia

Europe 26 outlets

  • 15min Lithuania
  • Adevărul Romania
  • Aftonbladet Sweden
  • Blic Serbia
  • Delfi (LV) Latvia
  • Digi24 Romania
  • El País Spain
  • elDiario.es Spain
  • ERT Greece
  • France 24 France
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany
  • HVG Hungary
  • Il Post Italy
  • Interfax Russia
  • Kyiv Independent Ukraine
  • Le Figaro France
  • Le Monde France
  • Libération France
  • LRT Lithuania
  • Meduza Russia
  • NOS Netherlands
  • The Economist United Kingdom
  • TVNET Latvia
  • Ukrainska Pravda Ukraine
  • Vedomosti Russia
  • VRT NWS Belgium

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey

International 2 outlets

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International
  • INTLPolitico Europe International

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