Europe / United Kingdom · Conflict & Security

US withdraws bombers from RAF Fairford base after security threats

Rank
Running: 25h
Updated: 1h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 154
Regions: 5
Countries: 72
Languages: 33

+61

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Wall Street Journal, 4 Oct, 19:54 UTC.
Second country: Mexico, with El Sol de México.
Second region: Middle East, with Anadolu Agency.
Fastest hour: +34 outlets from 4 Oct, 21:25 UTC.
Now: 154 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 72 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 4 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

13%24%44%

Africa 11 outlets · 8 countries · 7%
Americas 20 outlets · 9 countries · 13%
Asia-Pacific 37 outlets · 20 countries · 24%
Europe 68 outlets · 27 countries · 44%
Middle East 14 outlets · 7 countries · 9%
International 4 outlets · 3%

First movers

The Wall Street Journal 4 Oct, 19:54 UTC
El Sol de México +56m
Anadolu Agency +1h
New York Times +1h 1m
Sky News +1h 6m

Latest arrivals

La Nación (AR) 5 Oct, 19:28 UTC
Politico Europe 5 Oct, 18:36 UTC
Tehran Times 5 Oct, 17:59 UTC
Citizen Digital 5 Oct, 16:54 UTC
El Comercio 5 Oct, 16:16 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 154 outlets in 72 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 154 outlets, 11 state-owned, 12 public-service, 131 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 8: Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia, Zambia. Americas 9: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay. Asia-Pacific 20: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 27: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 7: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, 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, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article The Wall Street Journal, 4 Oct 2026, 19:54 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 20:00 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 20:40 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 Europe, United Kingdom. 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: 7.95, 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

4 Oct 2026 1 46.12 58 39 58 39 4.1

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 4 Oct, 20:00 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 20:40 UTC

Covered by 154 outlets

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

Covered by 154 outlets

Africa 11 outlets

Americas 20 outlets

Asia-Pacific 37 outlets

Europe 68 outlets

Middle East 14 outlets

International 4 outlets