Middle East / Yemen · Conflict & Security

Saudi-backed Yemeni forces claim advances against Houthis near Red Sea strait

Rank
Ran: 44h
Updated: 53m ago
Closed
Outlets: 86
Regions: 5
Countries: 52
Languages: 25

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Arab News, 5 Oct, 05:19 UTC.
Second country: Austria, with Der Standard.
Second region: Europe, with Der Standard.
Fastest hour: +16 outlets from 5 Oct, 09:40 UTC.
Last article: 86 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 52 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

28%38%13%

Africa 7 outlets · 7 countries · 8%
Americas 8 outlets · 5 countries · 9%
Asia-Pacific 24 outlets · 14 countries · 28%
Europe 33 outlets · 18 countries · 38%
Middle East 11 outlets · 7 countries · 13%
International 3 outlets · 4%

First movers

Arab News 5 Oct, 05:19 UTC
Der Standard +2h 56m
Le Monde +2h 59m
Aftonbladet +4h 10m
GMA News +4h 14m

Last to join

Al-Araby Al-Jadeed 7 Oct, 04:27 UTC
Detik 7 Oct, 03:55 UTC
Utusan Malaysia 6 Oct, 23:30 UTC
LRT 6 Oct, 20:43 UTC
Der Spiegel 6 Oct, 17:20 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 86 outlets in 52 countries, across 5 regions, 3 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 86 outlets, 6 state-owned, 10 public-service, 70 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 7: Egypt, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Tunisia. Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 14: Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 18: Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 7: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, 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, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Arab News, 5 Oct 2026, 05:19 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 08:20 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 04:27 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, Yemen. 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: 1.88, 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 from 2 stories Saudi-backed forces recapture Bab el-Mandeb Strait from Houthis; Yemen government forces launch offensive on Houthi-held Sanaa. 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 18 21.84 54 40 54 40 4.1

6 Oct 2026 36 14.97 84 52 45 32 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 08:20 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 04:27 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 86 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
5 Oct 2026	18	21.84	54	40	54	40	4.1
6 Oct 2026	36	14.97	84	52	45	32	4.6

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 86 outlets

Africa 7 outlets

Americas 8 outlets

Asia-Pacific 24 outlets

Europe 33 outlets

Middle East 11 outlets

International 3 outlets