Skip to the story

Middle East / Iraq · Energy

US controls Iraq's oil revenues

Rank
Ran
7h
Updated
5d ago
Final
Outlets
6
Regions
4
Countries
6
Languages
2

+0

The Business Standard Bangladesh · English 30 Sept, 06:10 UTC

The earliest of 5 English reports

Read it also in العربية (1) · +0 languages

Read at The Business Standard

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 8 hours.

2 4 6
0h 2h 4h 6h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Business Standard, 30 Sept, 06:10 UTC.
  2. Second country: South Africa, with TimesLIVE.
  3. Second region: Africa, with TimesLIVE.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 30 Sept, 08:23 UTC.
  5. Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

8 of 8 hours

Earlier Later

The 6 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

17%50%17%16%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 50%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
  • International 1 outlet · 16%

First movers

  1. The Business Standard 30 Sept, 06:10 UTC
  2. TimesLIVE +1h 5m
  3. INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed +2h 14m
  4. NDTV +3h 6m
  5. The Independent +5h 26m

Last to join

  1. ARY News 30 Sept, 13:50 UTC
  2. The Independent 30 Sept, 11:35 UTC
  3. NDTV 30 Sept, 09:15 UTC
  4. INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed 30 Sept, 08:23 UTC
  5. TimesLIVE 30 Sept, 07:14 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 6 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: South Africa. Asia-Pacific 3: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan. Europe 1: United Kingdom. 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 The Business Standard, 30 Sept 2026, 06:10 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 06:30 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 13:50 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 Middle East, Iraq. Topic Energy. 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
30 Sept 2026 386 3.36 6 6 6 6 4.0

This record as JSON, CC BY 4.0.

How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 30 Sept, 06:30 UTC · Updated 13:50 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

Pin outlets you trust with ☆ and they come first in every story.

Africa 1 outlet

  • TimesLIVE South Africa 30 Sept, 07:14 UTC
    EXPLAINER | How the US controls Iraq’s oil revenues

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • ARY News Pakistan 30 Sept, 13:50 UTC
    How the US controls Iraq’s oil revenues
  • NDTV India 30 Sept, 09:15 UTC
    Explained: How US Controls Iraq's Oil Revenues
  • The Business Standard Bangladesh 30 Sept, 06:10 UTC
    How the US controls Iraq's oil revenues

Europe 1 outlet

  • The Independent United Kingdom 30 Sept, 11:35 UTC
    How a Bush-era New York Fed account gave the US ultimate leverage over Iraq’s oil wealth

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International 30 Sept, 08:23 UTC
    س/ج | النفوذ الأميركي في العراق عبر عائدات النفط
Read at The Business Standard

Loudest reads the world's press every ten minutes and sizes each story by how widely it is covered.

Live map Archive Data Sources Methodology About Privacy & terms