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Europe / Lithuania · Conflict & Security

NATO shoots down drone over Lithuania

Rank
Ran
4d
Updated
16d ago
Final
Outlets
59
Regions
6
Countries
38
Languages
14

+28

Where it travelled

The 38 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. 2 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

22%56%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 2%
  • Americas 13 outlets · 9 countries · 22%
  • Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 4 countries · 7%
  • Europe 33 outlets · 19 countries · 56%
  • Middle East 6 outlets · 5 countries · 10%
  • International 2 outlets · 3%

The figures

Coverage
59 outlets in 38 countries, across 6 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 59 outlets, 3 state-owned, 14 public-service, 41 private, 1 not in the current feed list. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 9: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 4: India, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan. Europe 19: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 5: Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article NRK, 13 Sept 2026, 10:30 UTC. First seen 14 Sept 2026, 17:10 UTC. Last seen 18 Sept 2026, 22:50 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 Europe, Lithuania. Topic Conflict & security. 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
53.02, 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
14 Sept 2026 (partial) 47 3.96 4 3 – – 1.0
15 Sept 2026 1 52.47 58 38 – – 1.0
16 Sept 2026 20 32.07 59 38 – – 1.2
17 Sept 2026 56 20.10 59 38 – – 1.2
18 Sept 2026 7 53.02 59 38 – – 1.3

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Started 14 Sept, 17:10 UTC · Updated 18 Sept, 22:50 UTC

Covered by 59 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • TimesLIVE South Africa

Americas 13 outlets

  • ABC News United States
  • Associated Press United States
  • Bloomberg United States
  • CTV News Canada
  • El Comercio Peru
  • El Espectador Colombia
  • El Universal Mexico
  • Estadão Brazil
  • Fox News United States
  • Infobae Argentina
  • La Nación (CR) Costa Rica
  • La Tercera Chile
  • NPR United States

Asia-Pacific 4 outlets

  • CNA Singapore
  • Taipei Times Taiwan
  • Tempo Indonesia
  • The Hindu India

Europe 33 outlets

  • BBC News United Kingdom
  • ČT24 Czechia
  • Der Spiegel Germany
  • Deutsche Welle Germany
  • Digi24 Romania
  • DR Denmark
  • El Mundo Spain
  • El País Spain
  • ERR Estonia
  • France 24 France
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany
  • Gazeta Wyborcza Poland
  • Kyiv Independent Ukraine
  • Le Figaro France
  • Le Soir Belgium
  • Libération France
  • Meduza Russia
  • N1 Serbia
  • NOS Netherlands
  • NRK Norway
  • ORF Austria
  • Reuters United Kingdom
  • RFI France
  • RTÉ Ireland
  • RTP Portugal
  • Sky News United Kingdom
  • Tagesschau Germany
  • Telex Hungary
  • The Guardian United Kingdom
  • The Independent United Kingdom
  • The Moscow Times Russia
  • TVN24 Poland
  • Ukrainska Pravda Ukraine

Middle East 6 outlets

  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Daily Sabah Turkey
  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates
  • Times of Oman Oman

International 2 outlets

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International
  • INTLCBC News

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