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French school protests escalate with violence and casualties

Rank
Running: 29h
Updated: 37m ago
Momentum: Holding
Outlets: 25
Regions: 4
Countries: 21
Languages: 14

+11

Dawn Pakistan · English 4 Oct, 19:47 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (5) · +12 languages

Read at Dawn

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Al Yaoum 24, 4 Oct, 19:00 UTC.
Second country: Pakistan, with Dawn.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Dawn.
Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 5 Oct, 12:27 UTC.
Now: 25 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 21 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

16%68%12%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 4%
Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 3 countries · 16%
Europe 17 outlets · 14 countries · 68%
Middle East 3 outlets · 3 countries · 12%

First movers

Al Yaoum 24 4 Oct, 19:00 UTC
Dawn +47m
Republica +8h 15m
Detik +10h 5m
Index +11h 50m

Latest arrivals

VG 6 Oct, 00:12 UTC
Media Indonesia 5 Oct, 22:18 UTC
BBC News 5 Oct, 21:18 UTC
Vedomosti 5 Oct, 20:09 UTC
ABC 5 Oct, 18:49 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: French student protests escalate with school closures and violence, 30 Sept to 3 Oct 2026, 164 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 25 outlets in 21 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 25 outlets, 1 state-owned, 3 public-service, 21 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Morocco. Asia-Pacific 3: Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan. Europe 14: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 3: Iran, Israel, 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: Arabic, Czech, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Dutch, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Turkish.
Timeline: Earliest article Al Yaoum 24, 4 Oct 2026, 19:00 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 19:00 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 00:12 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 Europe, France. 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: 6.52, 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.
Chain: Continues French student protests escalate with school closures and violence. 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

4 Oct 2026 359 2.45 2 2 2 2 4.1

5 Oct 2026 54 9.61 24 20 22 18 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 4 Oct, 19:00 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 00:12 UTC

Covered by 25 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

Al Yaoum 24 Morocco 4 Oct, 19:00 UTC
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Asia-Pacific 4 outlets

Media Indonesia Indonesia 5 Oct, 22:18 UTC
Demo Pelajar Prancis Memanas, Unjuk Rasa Nasional Meluas dan Ribuan Orang Ditangkap
Detik Indonesia 5 Oct, 05:05 UTC
Aksi Protes Pelajar di Prancis Diwarnai Kekerasan, Politik Turut Memanas
Republica Nepal 5 Oct, 03:15 UTC
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Europe 17 outlets

Middle East 3 outlets

Hürriyet Turkey 5 Oct, 14:32 UTC
Fransa'da liseli eylemleri büyüyor
Tehran Times Iran 5 Oct, 13:19 UTC
From Batons to Bullets: Two Faces of the Iron Fist
Ynet Israel 5 Oct, 12:27 UTC
חודשו המהומות בצרפת: אש בפריז, גז בטולוז, בן 15 הרים רימון הלם וידו נקטעה

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
4 Oct 2026	359	2.45	2	2	2	2	4.1
5 Oct 2026	54	9.61	24	20	22	18	4.1