Europe / United Kingdom · Conflict & Security

US withdraws B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford base over Iranian threat

Rank
Ran: 45h
Updated: 11h ago
Final
Outlets: 162
Regions: 5
Countries: 73
Languages: 34

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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.
Last article: 162 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 73 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

14%24%43%

Africa 11 outlets · 8 countries · 7%
Americas 23 outlets · 10 countries · 14%
Asia-Pacific 39 outlets · 20 countries · 24%
Europe 69 outlets · 27 countries · 43%
Middle East 16 outlets · 7 countries · 10%
International 4 outlets · 2%

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

Last to join

Sky News Arabia 6 Oct, 17:59 UTC
UzA 6 Oct, 14:17 UTC
Lrytas 6 Oct, 06:15 UTC
Israel Hayom (he) 6 Oct, 04:11 UTC
Taipei Times 6 Oct, 00:00 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 162 outlets in 73 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 162 outlets, 13 state-owned, 12 public-service, 137 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 10: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cuba, 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, Hebrew, 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 6 Oct 2026, 17:59 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: 0.17, 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

5 Oct 2026 3 45.61 155 72 111 61 4.1

6 Oct 2026 111 6.86 162 73 18 17 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 4 Oct, 20:00 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 17:59 UTC

Covered by 162 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
4 Oct 2026	1	46.12	58	39	58	39	4.1
5 Oct 2026	3	45.61	155	72	111	61	4.1
6 Oct 2026	111	6.86	162	73	18	17	4.6

Covered by 162 outlets

Africa 11 outlets

Americas 23 outlets

Asia-Pacific 39 outlets

Europe 69 outlets

Middle East 16 outlets

International 4 outlets