Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Conflict & Security

Houthis claim missile and drone attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities

Rank
Ran: 2d
Updated: 3h ago
Closed
Outlets: 55
Regions: 5
Countries: 36
Languages: 14

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NDTV India · English 3 Oct, 12:29 UTC

The earliest of 27 English reports

Read it also in Español (4) · +12 languages

Read at NDTV

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Proto Thema, 3 Oct, 12:03 UTC.
Second country: India, with NDTV.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with NDTV.
Fastest hour: +8 outlets from 4 Oct, 03:05 UTC.
Last article: 55 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 36 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

13%42%15%16%

Africa 5 outlets · 4 countries · 9%
Americas 7 outlets · 5 countries · 13%
Asia-Pacific 23 outlets · 12 countries · 42%
Europe 8 outlets · 7 countries · 15%
Middle East 9 outlets · 7 countries · 16%
International 3 outlets · 5%

First movers

Proto Thema 3 Oct, 12:03 UTC
NDTV +27m
Al-Monitor +44m
Free Malaysia Today +1h 29m
Kurdistan24 +1h 42m

Last to join

Tehran Times 5 Oct, 18:02 UTC
La Presse de Tunisie 4 Oct, 19:00 UTC
New York Times 4 Oct, 14:46 UTC
Süddeutsche Zeitung 4 Oct, 14:43 UTC
Times of India 4 Oct, 14:04 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 55 outlets in 36 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 55 outlets, 8 state-owned, 4 public-service, 43 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 4: Morocco, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Tunisia. Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, United States. Asia-Pacific 12: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam. Europe 7: Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Russia, United Kingdom. Middle East 7: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Qatar, 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, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Malay, Nepali, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article Proto Thema, 3 Oct 2026, 12:03 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 12:20 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 18:02 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: 0.75, 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 Houthi Claims Attack on Aramco Facility Near Riyadh as Large Fire Erupts; Houthis launch attacks on Saudi Arabia targets. 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

3 Oct 2026 23 24.83 21 18 21 18 4.0

4 Oct 2026 24 15.35 50 33 35 27 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 3 Oct, 12:20 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 18:02 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 55 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
3 Oct 2026	23	24.83	21	18	21	18	4.0
4 Oct 2026	24	15.35	50	33	35	27	4.1

Covered by 55 outlets

Africa 5 outlets

Americas 7 outlets

Asia-Pacific 23 outlets

Europe 8 outlets

Middle East 9 outlets

International 3 outlets