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Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Conflict & Security

Houthi attack on Riad airport strands German minister Katherina Reiche in Saudi Arabia

Rank
106
Running
9h
Updated
5h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
8
Regions
2
Countries
3
Languages
3

Der Spiegel Germany · German 11 Oct, 16:39 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Română (2) · العربية (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 10 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Der Spiegel, 11 Oct, 16:39 UTC.
  2. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 11 Oct, 16:39 UTC.
  3. Second country: Romania, with G4Media.
  4. Second region: Middle East, with An-Nahar.
  5. Now: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

10 of 10 hours

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The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

88%12%

  • Europe 7 outlets · 2 countries · 88%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 12%

First movers

  1. Der Spiegel 11 Oct, 16:39 UTC
  2. n-tv +23m
  3. Die Zeit +50m
  4. ZDF heute +58m
  5. G4Media +3h 6m

Latest arrivals

  1. T-Online 11 Oct, 21:16 UTC
  2. An-Nahar 11 Oct, 20:01 UTC
  3. Digi24 11 Oct, 19:58 UTC
  4. G4Media 11 Oct, 19:44 UTC
  5. ZDF heute 11 Oct, 17:37 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 8 outlets, 1 public-service, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 2: Germany, Romania. Middle East 1: Lebanon. 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, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article Der Spiegel, 11 Oct 2026, 16:39 UTC. First seen 11 Oct 2026, 16:50 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 21:16 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 Conflict & Security. 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
1.60, 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
11 Oct 2026 160 4.08 8 3 8 3 4.7

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Started 11 Oct, 16:50 UTC · Updated 21:16 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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  • T-Online Germany 11 Oct, 21:16 UTC
    Riad: Huthis greifen Flughafen an – Ministerin Reiche steckt fest
  • An-Nahar Lebanon 11 Oct, 20:01 UTC
    قصف مطار الرياض يجبر وزيرة الاقتصاد الألمانية على إرجاء مغادرتها
  • Digi24 Romania 11 Oct, 19:58 UTC
    Un ministru german este blocat în Arabia Saudită după atacurile houthi împotriva aeroportului din Riad
  • G4Media Romania 11 Oct, 19:44 UTC
    Ministrul german al economiei este blocat la Riad după atacurile împotriva aeroportului
  • ZDF heute Germany 11 Oct, 17:37 UTC
    Neuer Angriff auf Flughafen Riad, Ministerin Reiche sitzt fest
  • Die Zeit Germany 11 Oct, 17:29 UTC
    Saudi-Arabien: Katherina Reiche sitzt wegen Angriffen in Riad fest
  • n-tv Germany 11 Oct, 17:01 UTC
    Huthi-Angriffe auf Flughafen: Ministerin Reiche steckt in Riad fest
  • Der Spiegel Germany 11 Oct, 16:39 UTC
    Angriff auf Flughafen in Riad verhindert Katherina Reiches Rückreise
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