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Costa Rican president fires foreign minister for unauthorized Trump meeting

Rank
Ran
29h
Updated
10d ago
Final
Outlets
19
Regions
5
Countries
15
Languages
6

+5

Where it travelled

The 15 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

37%21%21%16%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 5%
  • Americas 7 outlets · 5 countries · 37%
  • Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 3 countries · 21%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 3 countries · 21%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 3 countries · 16%

The figures

Coverage
19 outlets in 15 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 19 outlets, 4 state-owned, 15 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 5: Argentina, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru. Asia-Pacific 3: Hong Kong, Malaysia, Vietnam. Europe 3: Finland, Serbia, Spain. Middle East 3: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. 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
English, Spanish, Finnish, Serbian, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article El Sol de México, 24 Sept 2026, 16:30 UTC. First seen 24 Sept 2026, 17:10 UTC. Last seen 25 Sept 2026, 22:12 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, Costa Rica. 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
18.53, 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
24 Sept 2026 (partial) 116 9.87 10 8 10 8 3.3
25 Sept 2026 52 18.53 19 15 8 7 3.3

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 24 Sept, 17:10 UTC · Updated 25 Sept, 22:12 UTC

Covered by 19 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • TimesLIVE South Africa

Americas 7 outlets

  • Cubadebate Cuba
  • El Comercio Peru
  • El Sol de México Mexico
  • El Universal Mexico
  • Infobae Argentina
  • Jamaica Observer Jamaica
  • La Nación (AR) Argentina

Asia-Pacific 4 outlets

  • Dân Trí Vietnam
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong
  • Thanh Niên Vietnam

Europe 4 outlets

  • Blic Serbia
  • El Mundo Spain
  • El País Spain
  • Iltalehti Finland

Middle East 3 outlets

  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Sözcü Turkey

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