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Houthis claim missile attacks on Saudi and Yemen airports

Rank
Ran: 3d
Updated: 3h ago
Final
Outlets: 110
Regions: 5
Countries: 54
Languages: 25

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Blick, 5 Oct, 20:39 UTC.
Second country: Russia, with Interfax.
Second region: Middle East, with Anadolu Agency.
Fastest hour: +9 outlets from 5 Oct, 20:39 UTC.
Last article: 110 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 54 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

25%36%21%

Africa 6 outlets · 4 countries · 5%
Americas 11 outlets · 5 countries · 10%
Asia-Pacific 27 outlets · 15 countries · 25%
Europe 40 outlets · 20 countries · 36%
Middle East 23 outlets · 9 countries · 21%
International 3 outlets · 3%

First movers

Blick 5 Oct, 20:39 UTC
Interfax +18m
Anadolu Agency +20m
Infobae +22m
Shafaq News +26m

Last to join

kumparan 8 Oct, 18:22 UTC
Seneweb 8 Oct, 18:03 UTC
Rai News 8 Oct, 16:40 UTC
CBS News 8 Oct, 13:52 UTC
IRNA (fa) 8 Oct, 12:48 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Houthis claim missile and drone attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities, 3 to 5 Oct 2026, 55 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 110 outlets in 54 countries, across 5 regions, 2 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 110 outlets, 11 state-owned, 10 public-service, 89 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 4: Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia, Zambia. Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 15: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 20: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 9: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, 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, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article Blick, 5 Oct 2026, 20:39 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 20:50 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 23:30 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 International. 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: 0.66, 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 and drone attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities. Continued by Houthis attack Saudi Arabia in escalating Yemen conflict; Houthis attack Riyadh airport, airlines suspend flights; Iran Ramps Up Ship Attacks, Houthis Strike Saudi Airports, More; 也门冲突持续升级沙特数十人死伤胡塞导弹设施被毁; Houthis claim missile attack on Riyadh airport; Iran-backed Houthis claim fresh attack on Riyadh airport; no Saudi confirmation; حملات عربستان به پایتخت یمن; フーシ派がサウジアラビアの2つの空港攻撃 3人死亡30人以上負傷イエメンで海峡掌握めぐり暫定政権軍と戦闘激化. Merged from 2 stories Houthis attack Aden airport as Yemen fighting intensifies; Houthis claim strikes on Saudi and Yemen airports. 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

5 Oct 2026 30 15.21 16 15 16 15 4.1

6 Oct 2026 33 15.49 44 30 31 22 4.6

7 Oct 2026 64 9.23 63 40 26 23 4.6

8 Oct 2026 242 3.79 110 54 38 28 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 20:50 UTC · Updated 8 Oct, 23:30 UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 110 outlets

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Africa 6 outlets

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
5 Oct 2026	30	15.21	16	15	16	15	4.1
6 Oct 2026	33	15.49	44	30	31	22	4.6
7 Oct 2026	64	9.23	63	40	26	23	4.6
8 Oct 2026	242	3.79	110	54	38	28	4.6

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 110 outlets

Africa 6 outlets

Americas 11 outlets

Asia-Pacific 27 outlets

Europe 40 outlets

Middle East 23 outlets

International 3 outlets