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US grants sanctions waiver for Iran-Iraq Najaf flights

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30h
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Outlets
9
Regions
4
Countries
8
Languages
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The Express Tribune Pakistan · English 28 Sept, 13:30 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in Română (1) · 中文 (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 35 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Express Tribune, 28 Sept, 13:30 UTC.
  2. Second country: Israel, with The Jerusalem Post.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with The Jerusalem Post.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 28 Sept, 18:10 UTC.
  5. Last article: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

35 of 35 hours

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The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

56%22%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Asia-Pacific 5 outlets · 4 countries · 56%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%

First movers

  1. The Express Tribune 28 Sept, 13:30 UTC
  2. The Jerusalem Post +4h 40m
  3. South China Morning Post +4h 58m
  4. ARY News +6h 17m
  5. Digi24 +6h 35m

Last to join

  1. Liberty Times 30 Sept, 00:10 UTC
  2. Vanguard 29 Sept, 15:16 UTC
  3. The Business Standard 29 Sept, 03:25 UTC
  4. Arab News 28 Sept, 21:13 UTC
  5. Digi24 28 Sept, 20:05 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Iraq seeks US exemption from Iranian airline ban, 26 to 27 Sept 2026, 25 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 8 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 9 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Nigeria. Asia-Pacific 4: Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Taiwan. Europe 1: Romania. Middle East 2: Israel, Saudi Arabia. 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, Romanian, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article The Express Tribune, 28 Sept 2026, 13:30 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 18:10 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 00:10 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 Asia-Pacific, United States. 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.
Chain
Continues Iraq seeks US exemption from Iranian airline ban. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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 187 5.58 6 5 6 5 3.3
29 Sept 2026 274 4.60 8 7 3 3 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 18:10 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 00:10 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Vanguard Nigeria 29 Sept, 15:16 UTC
    US to allow flights between Iraq holy city and Iran

Asia-Pacific 5 outlets

  • Liberty Times Taiwan 30 Sept, 00:10 UTC
    巴格達取得豁免 美國允許伊拉克聖城與伊朗間航班
  • The Business Standard Bangladesh 29 Sept, 03:25 UTC
    US to grant sanctions waiver for flights between Iran and Iraq's Najaf, source says
  • ARY News Pakistan 28 Sept, 19:48 UTC
    US to grant sanctions waiver for flights between Iran and Iraq’s Najaf, source says
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong 28 Sept, 18:28 UTC
    US to grant sanctions waiver for flights between Iran and Iraq’s Najaf, source says
  • The Express Tribune Pakistan 28 Sept, 13:30 UTC
    US to grant sanctions waiver for flights between Iran and Iraq's Najaf, source says

Europe 1 outlet

  • Digi24 Romania 28 Sept, 20:05 UTC
    SUA vor acorda o derogare de la sancțiuni pentru zborurile dintre Iran și orașul Najaf din Irak. De ce este importantă conexiunea

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Arab News Saudi Arabia 29 Sept, 13:05 UTC
    US to allow Iran pilgrims to fly to holy city in Iraq: Iraqi officials
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • US to grant sanctions waiver for flights between Iran and Iraq’s Najaf, source says 28 Sept, 21:13 UTC
  • The Jerusalem Post Israel 28 Sept, 18:10 UTC
    Trump administration considers waiver to allow Iraqi flights for pilgrimage in Iran - report
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