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Qatar says US and Iran still in talks to end war

Rank
Running: 37h
Updated: 16h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 4
Regions: 2
Countries: 4
Languages: 2

Merged into Qatar says US and Iran continue diplomatic talks

Free Malaysia Today Malaysia · English 6 Oct, 13:03 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Indonesia (1)

Read at Free Malaysia Today

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Free Malaysia Today, 6 Oct, 13:03 UTC.
Second country: Saudi Arabia, with Arab News.
Second region: Middle East, with Arab News.
Now: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

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Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 50%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%
International 1 outlet · 25%

First movers

Free Malaysia Today 6 Oct, 13:03 UTC
Arab News +3h 48m
Middle East Eye +16h 14m
Detik +21h 27m

The figures

Coverage: 4 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 4 outlets, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 2: Indonesia, Malaysia. Middle East 1: Saudi Arabia. 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: English, Indonesian.
Timeline: Earliest article Free Malaysia Today, 6 Oct 2026, 13:03 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 14:00 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 10:29 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 International. Topic Politics. 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: 0.12, 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: Merged into Qatar says US and Iran continue diplomatic talks. 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.

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Started 6 Oct, 14:00 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 10:29 UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Covered by 4 outlets

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

Middle East 1 outlet

International 1 outlet