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France deploys military to protect Saudi oil port Yanbu

Rank
Ran
36h
Updated
9d ago
Final
Outlets
54
Regions
5
Countries
35
Languages
18

+24

Where it travelled

The 35 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. 3 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

13%15%46%13%

  • Africa 4 outlets · 4 countries · 7%
  • Americas 7 outlets · 4 countries · 13%
  • Asia-Pacific 8 outlets · 7 countries · 15%
  • Europe 25 outlets · 13 countries · 46%
  • Middle East 7 outlets · 6 countries · 13%
  • International 3 outlets · 6%

The figures

Coverage
54 outlets in 35 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 54 outlets, 4 state-owned, 7 public-service, 43 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 4: Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia, Zambia. Americas 4: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 7: Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 13: Austria, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland. Middle East 6: Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, 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, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Arab News, 24 Sept 2026, 18:54 UTC. First seen 24 Sept 2026, 19:00 UTC. Last seen 26 Sept 2026, 07:43 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 Middle East, Saudi Arabia. Topic Energy. 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
13.15, 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.
Chain
Continued by France deploys military support to Saudi Arabia. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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) 23 31.32 29 24 29 24 3.3
25 Sept 2026 7 47.70 53 34 29 21 3.3
26 Sept 2026 51 13.15 54 35 2 2 3.3

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How this was measured

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Started 24 Sept, 19:00 UTC · Updated 26 Sept, 07:43 UTC

Covered by 54 outlets

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Africa 4 outlets

  • Daily Maverick South Africa
  • Mosaïque FM Tunisia
  • Seneweb Senegal
  • Zambian Observer Zambia

Americas 7 outlets

  • Bloomberg United States
  • CNN Brasil Brazil
  • El Comercio Peru
  • Infobae Argentina
  • Metrópoles Brazil
  • New York Times United States
  • The Wall Street Journal United States

Asia-Pacific 8 outlets

  • 24.kg Kyrgyzstan
  • Afghanistan International Afghanistan
  • Daily Times Pakistan
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • MGR Online Thailand
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong
  • Thanh Niên Vietnam
  • VOV Vietnam

Europe 25 outlets

  • Aftonbladet Sweden
  • Cyprus Mail Cyprus
  • Der Spiegel Germany
  • Der Standard Austria
  • Die Zeit Germany
  • Digi24 Romania
  • DR Denmark
  • ERT Greece
  • France 24 France
  • Helsingin Sanomat Finland
  • iDNES Czechia
  • Il Post Italy
  • Interfax Russia
  • Kommersant Russia
  • Kurier Austria
  • Le Figaro France
  • Le Monde France
  • Libération France
  • ORF Austria
  • RFI France
  • Seznam Zprávy Czechia
  • SRF Switzerland
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany
  • Tagesschau Germany
  • Vedomosti Russia

Middle East 7 outlets

  • Al Modon Lebanon
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Israel Hayom (he) Israel
  • Kurdistan24 Iraq
  • SANA Syria
  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates
  • The Jerusalem Post Israel

International 3 outlets

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International
  • INTLAl-Monitor International
  • INTLMiddle East Eye International

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