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US sends third aircraft carrier and thousands of troops to Middle East

Rank
Ran: 45h
Updated: 2d ago
Final
Outlets: 68
Regions: 5
Countries: 37
Languages: 22

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Ynet, 1 Oct, 14:59 UTC.
Second country: United States, with The Wall Street Journal.
Second region: Americas, with The Wall Street Journal.
Fastest hour: +12 outlets from 2 Oct, 04:54 UTC.
Last article: 68 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 37 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

15%23%46%15%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 1%
Americas 10 outlets · 5 countries · 15%
Asia-Pacific 16 outlets · 9 countries · 23%
Europe 31 outlets · 15 countries · 46%
Middle East 10 outlets · 7 countries · 15%

First movers

Ynet 1 Oct, 14:59 UTC
The Wall Street Journal +2h 49m
Kommersant +3h 28m
Interfax +4h 12m
Anadolu Agency +4h 14m

Last to join

Unian 3 Oct, 12:46 UTC
Marine Insight 3 Oct, 10:26 UTC
CGTN 3 Oct, 05:02 UTC
Hürriyet 3 Oct, 04:30 UTC
Zambian Observer 2 Oct, 17:55 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 68 outlets in 37 countries, across 5 regions, 3 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 68 outlets, 10 state-owned, 4 public-service, 54 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Zambia. Americas 5: Argentina, Canada, Guatemala, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 9: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 15: Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 7: Iraq, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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, Estonian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Ynet, 1 Oct 2026, 14:59 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 15:10 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 12:46 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 International. 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: 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: Continued by أميركا ترسل حاملة طائرات ثالثة إلى الشرق الأوسط; More Than 2,000 U.S. Marines Reportedly Heading to the Middle East Amid Rising Tensions With Iran. 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

1 Oct 2026 94 11.43 11 9 11 9 4.0

2 Oct 2026 10 40.73 64 36 47 31 4.0

3 Oct 2026 29 22.82 67 37 3 3 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 15:10 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 12:46 UTC

Covered by 68 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
1 Oct 2026	94	11.43	11	9	11	9	4.0
2 Oct 2026	10	40.73	64	36	47	31	4.0
3 Oct 2026	29	22.82	67	37	3	3	4.0

Covered by 68 outlets

Africa 1 outlet

Americas 10 outlets

Asia-Pacific 16 outlets

Europe 31 outlets

Middle East 10 outlets