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Houthis attack Riyadh airport as Sanaa airport hit by Saudi airstrikes

Rank
79
Running
21h
Updated
1h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
9
Regions
3
Countries
7
Languages
6

Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 10 Oct, 13:04 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Tiếng Việt (2) · Deutsch (1) · Français (1) · العربية (1) · 中文 (1) · +4 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 22 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Anadolu Agency, 10 Oct, 13:04 UTC.
  2. Second region: International, with Middle East Eye.
  3. Second country: China, with China News Service.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 10 Oct, 13:04 UTC.
  5. Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

22 of 22 hours

Earlier Later

The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 2 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

45%22%22%

  • Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 3 countries · 45%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • International 2 outlets · 22%

First movers

  1. Anadolu Agency 10 Oct, 13:04 UTC
  2. INTLMiddle East Eye +14m
  3. China News Service +36m
  4. Le Monde +2h 48m
  5. INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed +9h 7m

Latest arrivals

  1. Malay Mail 11 Oct, 09:29 UTC
  2. VOV 11 Oct, 09:19 UTC
  3. ORF 11 Oct, 07:43 UTC
  4. Dân Trí 10 Oct, 22:47 UTC
  5. INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed 10 Oct, 22:12 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Houthis claim missile attacks on Saudi and Yemen airports, 5 to 8 Oct 2026, 110 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 7 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 9 outlets, 4 state-owned, 1 public-service, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 3: China, Malaysia, Vietnam. Europe 2: Austria, France. Middle East 1: Turkey. 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, German, English, French, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article Anadolu Agency, 10 Oct 2026, 13:04 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 13:10 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 09:29 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
2.61, 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 Houthis claim missile attacks on Saudi and Yemen airports. 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
10 Oct 2026 142 3.95 5 4 5 4 4.7

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Started 10 Oct, 13:10 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 09:29 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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  • Malay Mail Malaysia 11 Oct, 09:29 UTC
    Houthis issue new threat to Saudi airspace after deadly airport attack
  • VOV Vietnam 11 Oct, 09:19 UTC
    Houthi tiếp tục tấn công sân bay tại Saudi Arabia
  • ORF Austria 11 Oct, 07:43 UTC
    Neue Eskalation in Saudi-Arabien
  • Dân Trí Vietnam 10 Oct, 22:47 UTC
    Sân bay Ả rập Xê út lại bị tập kích, Mỹ xem xét tham gia tấn công Houthi
  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International 10 Oct, 22:12 UTC
    اليمن | 12 قتيلاً بهجوم على مطار الرياض وإدانات لاعتداءات الحوثيين
  • Le Monde France 10 Oct, 15:53 UTC
    Les houthiste du Yémen vise une nouvelle fois l’aéroport de Riyad, faisant de nombreux blessés
  • China News Service China 10 Oct, 13:40 UTC
    快讯:胡塞武装称沙特战机四次空袭萨那国际机场
  • INTLMiddle East Eye International 10 Oct, 13:19 UTC
    Sanaa airport hit by four air strikes, large blast heard at Riyadh airport
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 10 Oct, 13:04 UTC
    Houthis claim Saudi Arabia carried out 4 airstrikes on Sanaa airport
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