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Malaysia's king grants Najib house arrest in 1MDB case

Rank
Ran
2d
Updated
15d ago
Final
Outlets
21
Regions
5
Countries
16
Languages
5

+6

Where it travelled

The 16 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Africa 2 outlets · 1 country · 10%
  • Americas 4 outlets · 2 countries · 19%
  • Asia-Pacific 8 outlets · 8 countries · 38%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 3 countries · 19%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 9%
  • International 1 outlet · 5%

The figures

Coverage
21 outlets in 16 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 21 outlets, 2 state-owned, 2 public-service, 17 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 2: Argentina, United States. Asia-Pacific 8: Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand. Europe 3: Germany, Portugal, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Saudi Arabia, Turkey. 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, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai.
Timeline
Earliest article Free Malaysia Today, 18 Sept 2026, 04:14 UTC. First seen 18 Sept 2026, 04:30 UTC. Last seen 20 Sept 2026, 04:47 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 Asia-Pacific, Malaysia. Topic Politics. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). 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
4.42, at the end of the last day measured. 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
18 Sept 2026 129 9.94 21 16 – – 1.3
20 Sept 2026 226 4.42 21 16 3 3 1.4 → 2.0

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 18 Sept, 04:30 UTC · Updated 20 Sept, 04:47 UTC

Covered by 21 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

  • Daily Maverick South Africa
  • TimesLIVE South Africa

Americas 4 outlets

  • Associated Press United States
  • Bloomberg United States
  • Infobae Argentina
  • The Wall Street Journal United States

Asia-Pacific 8 outlets

  • CNA Singapore
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • Philippine Daily Inquirer Philippines
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong
  • Tempo Indonesia
  • Thairath Thailand
  • The Hindu India
  • The Japan Times Japan

Europe 4 outlets

  • Deutsche Welle Germany
  • Reuters United Kingdom
  • RTP Portugal
  • The Independent United Kingdom

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International

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