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Cuba and US maintain communication without formal negotiations

Rank
Running
3h
Updated
2h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
5
Regions
2
Countries
5
Languages
3

+0

CNN Brasil Brazil · Portuguese 5 Oct, 21:17 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in العربية (3) · Español (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 5 after 5 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: CNN Brasil, 5 Oct, 21:17 UTC.
  2. Second country: Lebanon, with An-Nahar.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with An-Nahar.
  4. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 5 Oct, 22:48 UTC.
  5. Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

5 of 5 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

40%40%20%

  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 40%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 40%
  • International 1 outlet · 20%

First movers

  1. CNN Brasil 5 Oct, 21:17 UTC
  2. An-Nahar +1h 30m
  3. Cubadebate +1h 41m
  4. INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed +1h 59m
  5. Asharq News +2h 20m

The figures

Coverage
5 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 1 state-owned, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Brazil, Cuba. Middle East 2: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia. 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, Spanish, Portuguese.
Timeline
Earliest article CNN Brasil, 5 Oct 2026, 21:17 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 22:20 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 23:38 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, Cuba. 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
4.02, 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 126 6.14 5 5 5 5 4.1

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Started 5 Oct, 22:20 UTC · Updated 23:38 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

  • Cubadebate Cuba 5 Oct, 22:58 UTC
    Cuba y EEUU mantienen “canales de comunicación”, pero no hay negociaciones
  • CNN Brasil Brazil 5 Oct, 21:17 UTC
    Cuba e EUA mantêm comunicação, mas não há negociações, diz diplomata

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Asharq News Saudi Arabia 5 Oct, 23:38 UTC
    دبلوماسية كوبية: هافانا وواشنطن تحافظان على قنوات اتصال دون مفاوضات
  • An-Nahar Lebanon 5 Oct, 22:48 UTC
    كوبا: قنوات اتصال مع واشنطن بلا مفاوضات رسمية

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International 5 Oct, 23:16 UTC
    "رويترز": كوبا وأميركا تحافظان على قنوات اتصال دون إجراء مفاوضات
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