Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Politics

Saudi defence minister meets UAE vice president in Riyadh

Rank
Ran: 25h
Updated: 6d ago
Final
Outlets: 11
Regions: 1
Countries: 5
Languages: 2

Arab News Saudi Arabia · English 28 Sept, 19:30 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in العربية (5)

Read at Arab News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Arab News, 28 Sept, 19:30 UTC.
Second country: Lebanon, with An-Nahar.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 28 Sept, 19:30 UTC.
Second region: International, with Middle East Eye.
Last article: 11 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 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

73%27%

Middle East 8 outlets · 4 countries · 73%
International 3 outlets · 27%

First movers

Arab News 28 Sept, 19:30 UTC
An-Nahar +10m
Asharq News +29m
Middle East Eye +1h 6m
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed +1h 59m

Last to join

Al-Monitor 29 Sept, 20:46 UTC
Saudi Gazette 29 Sept, 20:05 UTC
Al Sharq 29 Sept, 17:12 UTC
Sky News Arabia 29 Sept, 13:37 UTC
The National 29 Sept, 03:44 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 11 outlets in 5 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 11 outlets, 11 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Middle East 4: Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, 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, English.
Timeline: Earliest article Arab News, 28 Sept 2026, 19:30 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 19:40 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 20:46 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 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: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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

28 Sept 2026 226 4.35 6 3 6 3 3.3

29 Sept 2026 210 6.06 10 5 8 4 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 19:40 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 20:46 UTC

Covered by 11 outlets

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Middle East 8 outlets

Saudi Gazette Saudi Arabia 29 Sept, 20:05 UTC
Defense minister, UAE vice president discuss strengthening bilateral cooperation
Al Sharq Qatar 29 Sept, 17:12 UTC
وزير الدفاع السعودي يلتقي نائب رئيس الإمارات
Arab News Saudi Arabia 29 Sept, 14:23 UTC
Saudi crown prince welcomes UAE vice president in Riyadh
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- Saudi defense minister invites UAE VP to Kingdom on Tuesday 28 Sept, 19:30 UTC
Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 29 Sept, 14:21 UTC
Saudi Defense Minister Meets with UAE Vice President Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed
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- Saudi Defense Minister Invites UAE Vice President Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed to Visit Kingdom 28 Sept, 22:10 UTC
Asharq News Saudi Arabia 29 Sept, 14:07 UTC
ولي العهد السعودي يلتقي نائب رئيس دولة الإمارات في الرياض
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- وزير الدفاع السعودي يلتقي في الرياض نائب رئيس الإمارات 29 Sept, 13:39 UTC
- خالد بن سلمان يدعو منصور بن زايد إلى زيارة السعودية الثلاثاء 28 Sept, 19:59 UTC
Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates 29 Sept, 13:37 UTC
منصور بن زايد وخالد بن سلمان يبحثان العلاقات الأخوية بالرياض
An-Nahar Lebanon 29 Sept, 13:30 UTC
وزير الدفاع السعودي الأمير خالد بن سلمان يستقبل نائب الرئيس الإماراتي منصور بن زايد في الرياض
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- وزير الدفاع السعودي يدعو نائب الرئيس الإماراتي لزيارة المملكة 28 Sept, 19:41 UTC
The National United Arab Emirates 29 Sept, 03:44 UTC
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed meets Saudi Minister of Defence Prince Khalid bin Salman

International 3 outlets

Al-Monitor International 29 Sept, 20:46 UTC
UAE vice president visits Saudi Arabia in first visit since rift
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed International 28 Sept, 21:29 UTC
بن زايد إلى السعودية لأول مرة منذ توتر علاقات البلدين
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- منصور بن زايد إلى السعودية لأول مرة منذ توتر علاقات البلدين 28 Sept, 21:29 UTC
Middle East Eye International 28 Sept, 20:36 UTC
Saudi defence minister invites UAE vice president to kingdom

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
28 Sept 2026	226	4.35	6	3	6	3	3.3
29 Sept 2026	210	6.06	10	5	8	4	3.3 → 4.0