Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Conflict & Security

Houthi attacks on Saudi airports kill three

Rank
Ran: 2d
Updated: 13h ago
Final
Outlets: 107
Regions: 5
Countries: 55
Languages: 25

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Arab News, 6 Oct, 07:40 UTC.
Second country: United Arab Emirates, with Sky News Arabia.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Business Recorder.
Fastest hour: +15 outlets from 6 Oct, 08:14 UTC.
Last article: 107 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 55 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 3 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

19%26%28%19%

Africa 20 outlets · 10 countries · 19%
Americas 5 outlets · 4 countries · 5%
Asia-Pacific 28 outlets · 14 countries · 26%
Europe 30 outlets · 17 countries · 28%
Middle East 21 outlets · 9 countries · 19%
International 3 outlets · 3%

First movers

Arab News 6 Oct, 07:40 UTC
Asharq News +7m
Sky News Arabia +8m
Hürriyet +20m
Al Sharq +25m

Last to join

Egypt Independent 8 Oct, 13:05 UTC
Africanews 8 Oct, 11:37 UTC
La Presse de Tunisie 8 Oct, 10:42 UTC
Al-Rakoba 8 Oct, 10:21 UTC
Al Yaoum 24 8 Oct, 09:00 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 107 outlets in 55 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 107 outlets, 6 state-owned, 9 public-service, 92 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 10: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia. Americas 4: Argentina, Canada, United States, Uruguay. Asia-Pacific 14: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Uzbekistan. Europe 17: Austria, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, United Kingdom. Middle East 9: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, 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, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Thai, Turkish, Uzbek, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Arab News, 6 Oct 2026, 07:40 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 07:50 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 13:05 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: 1.10, 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: Continued by Missili degli Houthi su Riad. Colpito l’aeroporto, voli sospesi; 沙國2機場遭葉門叛軍襲擊！聯軍紅海、曼德海峽大反攻收復要地. Merged from 2 stories Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia airports kill three; Houthis attack Saudi airports, three killed. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
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

6 Oct 2026 16 22.75 35 23 35 23 4.6

7 Oct 2026 30 13.90 62 37 44 27 4.6

8 Oct 2026 19 19.68 107 55 50 39 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 6 Oct, 07:50 UTC · Updated 8 Oct, 13:05 UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 107 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
6 Oct 2026	16	22.75	35	23	35	23	4.6
7 Oct 2026	30	13.90	62	37	44	27	4.6
8 Oct 2026	19	19.68	107	55	50	39	4.6

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 107 outlets

Africa 20 outlets

Americas 5 outlets

Asia-Pacific 28 outlets

Europe 30 outlets

Middle East 21 outlets

International 3 outlets