Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Conflict & Security

Houthi attacks on Saudi airports kill three, wound dozens

Rank: 3
Running: 42h
Updated: 14m ago
Momentum: +15%
Outlets: 72
Regions: 5
Countries: 42
Languages: 19

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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.
Now: 72 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 42 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

28%25%26%

Africa 7 outlets · 5 countries · 10%
Americas 5 outlets · 4 countries · 7%
Asia-Pacific 20 outlets · 11 countries · 28%
Europe 18 outlets · 12 countries · 25%
Middle East 19 outlets · 9 countries · 26%
International 3 outlets · 4%

First movers

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

Latest arrivals

Setopati 8 Oct, 02:06 UTC
South China Morning Post 8 Oct, 01:54 UTC
The Business Standard 8 Oct, 01:30 UTC
The Japan Times 8 Oct, 01:24 UTC
TBS News Dig 8 Oct, 00:39 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 72 outlets in 42 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 72 outlets, 6 state-owned, 3 public-service, 63 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 5: Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia. Americas 4: Argentina, Canada, United States, Uruguay. Asia-Pacific 11: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines. Europe 12: Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, 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, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Turkish, 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, 02:06 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: 16.29, 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

6 Oct 2026 16 22.75 35 23 35 23 4.6

7 Oct 2026 30 13.90 62 37 44 27 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 6 Oct, 07:50 UTC · Updated 8 Oct, 02:06 UTC

Covered by 72 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

Covered by 72 outlets

Africa 7 outlets

Americas 5 outlets

Asia-Pacific 20 outlets

Europe 18 outlets

Middle East 19 outlets

International 3 outlets