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Americas / Cuba · Energy

Cuba experiences major nationwide power blackout, partial restoration underway

Rank
Ran
2d
Updated
14d ago
Final
Outlets
46
Regions
5
Countries
32
Languages
13

+21

Where it travelled

The 32 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

29%13%39%15%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 2%
  • Americas 13 outlets · 8 countries · 29%
  • Asia-Pacific 6 outlets · 6 countries · 13%
  • Europe 18 outlets · 11 countries · 39%
  • Middle East 7 outlets · 5 countries · 15%
  • International 1 outlet · 2%

The figures

Coverage
46 outlets in 32 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 46 outlets, 4 state-owned, 7 public-service, 35 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Zambia. Americas 8: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, United States, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 6: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand. Europe 11: Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, United Kingdom. Middle East 5: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, 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, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Thai.
Timeline
Earliest article The Express Tribune, 18 Sept 2026, 17:13 UTC. First seen 18 Sept 2026, 18:40 UTC. Last seen 21 Sept 2026, 08:38 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 Energy. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). 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
12.71, 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
18 Sept 2026 43 22.04 19 16 – – 1.3
19 Sept 2026 24 27.66 39 26 – – 1.4
20 Sept 2026 58 15.96 45 31 8 9 1.4 → 2.0
21 Sept 2026 92 12.71 46 32 1 1 2.4

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Started 18 Sept, 18:40 UTC · Updated 21 Sept, 08:38 UTC

Covered by 46 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Zambian Observer Zambia

Americas 13 outlets

  • 14ymedio Cuba
  • ABC News United States
  • Associated Press United States
  • CBS News United States
  • Clarín Argentina
  • CTV News Canada
  • El Nacional Venezuela
  • El Universal Mexico
  • Estadão Brazil
  • Fox News United States
  • G1 Brazil
  • Infobae Argentina
  • La Tercera Chile

Asia-Pacific 6 outlets

  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • Taipei Times Taiwan
  • Tempo Indonesia
  • Thairath Thailand
  • The Express Tribune Pakistan
  • The Hindu India

Europe 18 outlets

  • ANSA Italy
  • BBC News United Kingdom
  • Der Spiegel Germany
  • Der Standard Austria
  • Deutsche Welle Germany
  • Digi24 Romania
  • ERT Greece
  • France 24 France
  • Il Post Italy
  • Le Figaro France
  • N1 Serbia
  • ORF Austria
  • Reuters United Kingdom
  • RTP Portugal
  • Tagesschau Germany
  • Telex Hungary
  • The Independent United Kingdom
  • TVN24 Poland

Middle East 7 outlets

  • Al Ittihad United Arab Emirates
  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Asharq News Saudi Arabia
  • SANA Syria
  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International

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