Coverage tracker
The most covered news stories, 19 October to 25 October 2026
FTMQ World reads 8,338 headlines from 865 outlets a week. These are the stories the most of them covered, and the outlet that had each one first.
- 1Donald Trump endorses Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Israeli parliamentary election
11 outlets · first: Al-Monitor, Sun 15:46 UTC · Elections Abroad
- 2Nigeria confirms first Ebola case of latest African outbreak in Abuja
10 outlets · first: Euronews Election News, Mon 12:52 UTC · Top World News
- 3Elon Musk explores historic merger of SpaceX and Tesla
7 outlets · first: BBC US and Canada, Tue 22:06 UTC · Top World News
- 4Magnitude 7 earthquake in Tibet kills 16 people and destroys homes
6 outlets · first: Hindustan Times, Thu 14:57 UTC · Top World News
- 5Pope Leo XIV needs no further cancer treatment after successful surgery
5 outlets · first: BBC Europe, Wed 20:09 UTC · Top World News
- 6Torrential rain and flooding in eastern Spain leave four people dead
4 outlets · first: Euronews Europe, Mon 20:00 UTC · Top World News
- 7Drone strike in Abyei reportedly kills 153 people as Sudan war escalates
4 outlets · first: Deutsche Welle World, Tue 18:09 UTC · Top World News
- 8Israeli forces displace hundreds of Palestinian families in Hebron
4 outlets · first: France 24 English, Sat 13:50 UTC · Top World News
- 9Italy sends 500 troops to Milan following cost of living riots
3 outlets · first: Guardian Europe, Tue 11:00 UTC · Top World News
- 10Eastern Libyan parliament approves contested maritime deal with Turkey
3 outlets · first: Al-Monitor, Tue 13:05 UTC · Diplomacy
- 11Israeli forces and settlers disrupt West Bank olive harvest
3 outlets · first: UN News, Wed 12:00 UTC · Diplomacy
- 12French president condemns deadly drive-by shooting near Paris as racist terrorism
3 outlets · first: Euronews Election News, Fri 10:27 UTC · Europe
First to the story
Outlets that had the most of the week’s widely covered stories before anyone else.
- Al-Monitor2
- Euronews Election News2
- BBC US and Canada1
- Hindustan Times1
- BBC Europe1
- Euronews Europe1
- Deutsche Welle World1
- France 24 English1
- Guardian Europe1
- UN News1
Busiest outlets
Headlines published in the feeds we read.
- The Rio Times976
- Al Jazeera English718
- AllAfrica News594
- South China Morning Post561
- USGS Earthquakes493
- France 24 English427
- Euronews Election News381
- Middle East Eye349
- GDACS Disasters272
- Guardian Europe210
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Source: FTMQ World coverage tracker, 19 October to 25 October 2026, https://world.ftmq.com/coverage/2026-10-19
How it is counted: every report FTMQ World wrote that week is matched with the headlines from the outlets we follow that are about the same event (they share its names and its less common words), published within a day and a half of it. Aggregators that repeat other outlets’ headlines are not counted. Each outlet counts once per story; the first is the earliest such headline. Only outlets with feeds we read are counted, so this measures breadth of coverage, not every report there was.