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Saudi coalition intercepts Houthi ballistic missile near Riyadh

Rank
Ran: 46h
Updated: 5h ago
Final
Outlets: 18
Regions: 3
Countries: 12
Languages: 7

Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 5 Oct, 23:02 UTC

The earliest of 11 English reports

Read it also in العربية (2) · +5 languages

Read at Anadolu Agency

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Asharq News, 5 Oct, 22:23 UTC.
Second country: Turkey, with Anadolu Agency.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Express Tribune.
Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 7 Oct, 05:04 UTC.
Last article: 18 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 12 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

39%17%39%

Asia-Pacific 7 outlets · 5 countries · 39%
Europe 3 outlets · 3 countries · 17%
Middle East 7 outlets · 3 countries · 39%
International 1 outlet · 5%

First movers

Asharq News 5 Oct, 22:23 UTC
Anadolu Agency +39m
The Express Tribune +3h 29m
Middle East Eye +3h 41m
Khaama Press +8h 36m

Last to join

SANA 7 Oct, 21:03 UTC
Daily Times 7 Oct, 09:44 UTC
ARY News 7 Oct, 06:00 UTC
Detik 7 Oct, 05:35 UTC
Hürriyet 7 Oct, 05:22 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 18 outlets in 12 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 18 outlets, 2 state-owned, 2 public-service, 14 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 5: Afghanistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, South Korea. Europe 3: Greece, Lithuania, Russia. Middle East 3: Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey. 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, Greek, English, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Russian, Turkish.
Timeline: Earliest article Asharq News, 5 Oct 2026, 22:23 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 22:31 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 21:03 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, Saudi Arabia. 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: 0.82, 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.
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

6 Oct 2026 304 3.39 9 6 8 6 4.6

7 Oct 2026 114 6.59 18 12 15 11 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 22:31 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 21:03 UTC

Covered by 18 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 7 outlets

Daily Times Pakistan 7 Oct, 09:44 UTC
Saudi coalition intercepts Houthi ballistic missile near Riyadh
ARY News Pakistan 7 Oct, 06:00 UTC
Saudi-led coalition intercepts Houthi ballistic missile north of Riyadh
Detik Indonesia 7 Oct, 05:35 UTC
Arab Saudi Tembak Jatuh Rudal Houthi di Dekat Riyadh
Malay Mail Malaysia 7 Oct, 04:10 UTC
Saudi coalition downs Houthi ballistic missile amid fierce Yemen counter-offensive
The Korea Herald South Korea 7 Oct, 03:34 UTC
Saudi coalition says intercepted missile fired by Yemen's Houthis
Khaama Press Afghanistan 6 Oct, 06:59 UTC
Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed Houthi missile sites in Yemen
The Express Tribune Pakistan 6 Oct, 01:52 UTC
Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed depot housing 20 ballistic missiles in northwestern Yemen

Europe 3 outlets

Middle East 7 outlets

SANA Syria 7 Oct, 21:03 UTC
التحالف: تدمير منصة لإطلاق الصواريخ الباليستية في صنعاء كانت تحضر لمهاجمة السعودية
Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 7 Oct, 20:13 UTC
Coalition: Ballistic Missile Launch Platform Used in Attack on Riyadh Was Destroyed
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- Coalition: Ballistic Missile Launched by Terrorist Houthis at Khamis Mushait Destroyed 6 Oct, 21:15 UTC
Anadolu Agency Turkey 7 Oct, 18:44 UTC
Saudi-led coalition says missile launch platform used to target Riyadh destroyed in Yemen
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Hürriyet Turkey 7 Oct, 05:22 UTC
Husilerden Riyad'a balistik füze saldırısı: Aden Havalimanı'nda yolcular tahliye edildi
Saudi Gazette Saudi Arabia 7 Oct, 03:24 UTC
Coalition intercepts Houthi ballistic missile north of Riyadh, tracks launch site in Sanaa
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- Houthi ballistic missile intercepted over Khamis Mushait 6 Oct, 19:53 UTC
Arab News Saudi Arabia 7 Oct, 02:20 UTC
Saudi air defenses knock down ballistic missile north of Riyadh
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- Coalition says intercepted Houthi missile targeting southwest Saudi Arabia 6 Oct, 16:40 UTC
Asharq News Saudi Arabia 5 Oct, 22:23 UTC
التحالف يعلن تدمير منصة صواريخ في صنعاء ومخزن يضم 20 صاروخاً بصعدة

International 1 outlet

Middle East Eye International 7 Oct, 02:08 UTC
Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted Houthi missile north of Riyadh
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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
6 Oct 2026	304	3.39	9	6	8	6	4.6
7 Oct 2026	114	6.59	18	12	15	11	4.6