Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Conflict & Security

US warns citizens in Saudi Arabia of Houthi airport attack threats

Rank
Running: 31h
Updated: 1h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 8
Regions: 3
Countries: 6
Languages: 4

Gulf News United Arab Emirates · English 7 Oct, 18:02 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in فارسی (3) · +2 languages

Read at Gulf News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Gulf News, 7 Oct, 18:02 UTC.
Second country: Iran, with IRNA (fa).
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 7 Oct, 18:02 UTC.
Second region: Africa, with Punch.
Now: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

25%13%62%

Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 25%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
Middle East 5 outlets · 3 countries · 62%

First movers

Gulf News 7 Oct, 18:02 UTC
IRNA (fa) +42m
Anadolu Agency +1h 21m
Etemad +2h 15m
Punch +3h 58m

Latest arrivals

Detik 9 Oct, 01:00 UTC
Khabar Online 8 Oct, 19:52 UTC
La Presse de Tunisie 8 Oct, 10:31 UTC
Punch 7 Oct, 22:00 UTC
Etemad 7 Oct, 20:17 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: US warns citizens in Saudi Arabia of drone and missile attack risks, 5 to 6 Oct 2026, 4 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 8 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 8 outlets, 2 state-owned, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Nigeria, Tunisia. Asia-Pacific 1: Indonesia. Middle East 3: Iran, 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: English, Persian, French, Indonesian.
Timeline: Earliest article Gulf News, 7 Oct 2026, 18:02 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 18:50 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 01:00 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, Saudi Arabia. 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: 1.26, 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.
Chain: Continues US warns citizens in Saudi Arabia of drone and missile attack risks. Merged from 2 stories US warns Saudi Arabia citizens of heightened Houthi security threats; US State Department warns Americans about travel to Saudi Arabia. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
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

7 Oct 2026 362 3.01 3 3 3 3 4.6

8 Oct 2026 384 2.86 7 5 3 3 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 7 Oct, 18:50 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 01:00 UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 8 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
7 Oct 2026	362	3.01	3	3	3	3	4.6
8 Oct 2026	384	2.86	7	5	3	3	4.6

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 8 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Middle East 5 outlets