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US military strikes alleged drug smuggling boat in Caribbean, kills four

Rank
Ran
38h
Updated
14d ago
Final
Outlets
49
Regions
5
Countries
33
Languages
15

+22

Where it travelled

The 33 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

33%12%33%16%

  • Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 4%
  • Americas 16 outlets · 8 countries · 33%
  • Asia-Pacific 6 outlets · 4 countries · 12%
  • Europe 16 outlets · 12 countries · 33%
  • Middle East 8 outlets · 6 countries · 16%
  • International 1 outlet · 2%

The figures

Coverage
49 outlets in 33 countries, across 5 regions, 2 of them trade press. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 49 outlets, 3 state-owned, 7 public-service, 39 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 2: South Africa, Tunisia. Americas 8: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, United States, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 4: India, Japan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan. Europe 12: Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 6: Israel, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, 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, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Uzbek.
Timeline
Earliest article G1, 20 Sept 2026, 00:03 UTC. First seen 20 Sept 2026, 00:20 UTC. Last seen 21 Sept 2026, 14:40 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 International. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). 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
22.36, at the end of the last day measured. 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
20 Sept 2026 21 29.19 46 32 46 32 1.4 → 2.0
21 Sept 2026 47 22.36 49 33 3 3 2.4

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How this was measured

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Started 20 Sept, 00:20 UTC · Updated 21 Sept, 14:40 UTC

Covered by 49 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

  • Mosaïque FM Tunisia
  • TimesLIVE South Africa

Americas 16 outlets

  • 14ymedio Cuba
  • ABC News United States
  • Associated Press United States
  • CBS News United States
  • Clarín Argentina
  • El Nacional Venezuela
  • El Universal Mexico
  • Estadão Brazil
  • Fox News United States
  • G1 Brazil
  • Infobae Argentina
  • La Jornada Mexico
  • La Nación (AR) Argentina
  • La Tercera Chile
  • Maritime Executive United States
  • Semana Colombia

Asia-Pacific 6 outlets

  • Business Recorder Pakistan
  • FNN Japan
  • Marine Insight India
  • The Hindu India
  • Times of India India
  • UzA Uzbekistan

Europe 16 outlets

  • ANSA Italy
  • Der Spiegel Germany
  • ERT Greece
  • Euronews France
  • Helsingin Sanomat Finland
  • Index Hungary
  • Le Figaro France
  • LRT Lithuania
  • NRK Norway
  • Público Portugal
  • Reuters United Kingdom
  • RTÉ Ireland
  • RTP Portugal
  • SRF Switzerland
  • Tagesschau Germany
  • The Independent United Kingdom

Middle East 8 outlets

  • Al Roya Oman
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Asharq News Saudi Arabia
  • Israel Hayom (he) Israel
  • SANA Syria
  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates
  • The Jerusalem Post Israel

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International

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