Media sourcing
topic — How outlets attribute, hedge and count.
AP calls 49.8 a contraction. Reuters calls it an easing slump. The Independent runs both.
China's official manufacturing index read 49.8 in August, up from 49.2 in July and still under the 50 line that separates growth from contraction. Three reports carry the …
Anadolu says the IMF finished Ukraine's first review in July. Kyiv Post says the mission is only opening it.
An IMF staff mission led by Gavin Gray began work in Kyiv on 31 August. Anadolu, datelined Moscow, reports it as a follow-up to a first review the …
RTÉ says a car. The Irish Times and TheJournal.ie say a jeep — under one byline.
Peter Mulcaire, two years old, was struck near his home in Abbeycourt, Rathkeale, Co Limerick on Saturday afternoon and died at University Hospital Limerick. The four reports we …
TheJournal.ie calls the Dover marchers anti-immigrant. RTÉ quotes a councillor — and counts hundreds, then dozens
Masked men in black blocked roads at the port of Dover on Saturday. The two reports we hold disagree about what to call them and how many there …
RTÉ says the Irish economy grew a healthy 3.1%. The Irish Times, from the same release, says growth stalled.
The Central Statistics Office published second-quarter national accounts — on Friday, according to the Irish Times. RTÉ made the half-year figure the story and called the growth healthy. …
Belgorod's acting governor says three civilians were killed in a day. Regnum calls the attacks deliberate; Interfax, on the same statement, does not.
Alexander Shuvaev, acting governor of Belgorod region, says Ukrainian forces attacked it 102 times in 24 hours, killing three civilians and injuring four. Five reports carry the deaths. …
Ukraine's Air Force counts 108 drones and hits in 11 places; Romania's defence ministry reports "a group of air targets" and names nobody
Russian drones hit Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Chuhuiv, the Dnipropetrovsk region and the Orlivka ferry crossing on the Romanian border overnight on 5–6 September. Four outlets carry it — three …
Ushakov says three hours and 10 minutes. Three other lengths went out, and one report puts Treasury officials in a room the rest keep them out of.
Witkoff and Kushner saw Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday evening. Eight of the reports we hold give the meeting a length, and between them they give four …
Kyiv's outlets and ASTRA name the Ryazan refinery; Interfax and Vedomosti name no facility at all
Drones reached Ryazan, Rostov, Kursk, Voronezh and Bryansk overnight on 5-6 September. Governor Pavel Malkov, whom every side quotes, said only that debris from downed drones started a …
Witkoff thanks Putin for a three-day truce. Putin says none was agreed — and Espreso counts five air-raid alerts over Kyiv.
Trump's envoys met Putin in the Kremlin on 5 September. Putin said he had ordered the strikes on Kyiv stopped at midnight, and that Russia never agreed to …
Police say 10,000 in Magdeburg, the organisers 20,000, Le Figaro's reporter a few thousand
Saxony-Anhalt votes on Sunday and the AfD is expected to win. Seven reports cover the eve of it. Two counted the democracy rally in Magdeburg and produced three …
Rzeczpospolita's headline detains two men. Wyborcza, quoting the police, counts one.
Police say they detained Roman Ż. in Silesia on Saturday afternoon and seized valuable watches and Zondacrypto papers. Both Polish papers we hold carry that, in the same …
Euractiv puts 80,000 across the Ceuta border in two days. El Mundo says thousands, ABC says invasion
Six reports describe the same two days at Ceuta's border with Morocco. One gives a figure — Euractiv's 80,000. Two say only thousands, three give nothing, and none …
Le Figaro says Putin ordered a three-day halt on Kyiv. NOS says both presidents agreed one, with no end date.
Witkoff and Kushner saw Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday. Four of the eight reports we hold on the day carry a pause in strikes on the two …
Middle East Eye puts the UAE in the headline. The UN's own release says "several countries".
The UN fact-finding mission for Sudan says a transnational network armed and staffed the Rapid Support Forces, and names the Emirates among the countries it operated from. Three …
France 24 says 129 dead in a Houthi push for Bab al-Mandab. Al Jazeera says dozens, and the hills retaken are at Taiz.
Houthi forces attacked government lines on Yemen's Red Sea side on Thursday. France 24, running AFP, leads on 129 dead and an offensive to seize the Bab al-Mandab …
Von der Leyen calls Leipzig “a new escalation on European Union soil”. Trump says Putin has no intention of attacking NATO.
Germany blamed Russia on 1 September for a drone attack at Leipzig/Halle airport on 4 August. Three days later Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin would not attack NATO …
Al-Monitor writes 'the Iran war'. Gulf News writes 'Iran conflict' and says Trump denies it is one.
Trump said Friday that the fighting with Iran is "small potatoes" for the United States. Al-Monitor and LBCI report it as a war in their own voice; Gulf …
An-Nahar says Klitschko counted at least five injured. Le Figaro and The Independent give no toll.
A Russian drone hit the headquarters of Ukraine's security service in central Kyiv on Friday, Zelensky said. Three reports, three accounts: one carries a casualty figure and the …
LBCI counts two martyrs in Kfar Rumman. An-Nahar counts two victims in Nabatieh. It is one strike.
An Israeli drone hit a motorcycle in south Lebanon on Friday evening. Two reports give a toll and they agree: two dead. They disagree on the town and …
Zelensky says Witkoff and Kushner are in Kyiv on Sunday. The Independent says an envoy is 'scared' to go.
Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are due in Moscow and then Kyiv this weekend. Five reports name three different sources for that plan, two different days, …
One mountain, four names: seven reports state Trump's threat to Pickaxe Mountain, IRNA files it as 'Trump's claim'
Trump said on Friday the US 'may hit Pickaxe Mountain in Iran very soon'. Eight reports in five languages carry the words. They give the site four names, …
Ynet says Iran fired ballistic missiles at US bases in Jordan. A senior US official says Washington is "not aware" of any.
Three reports, two mastheads, no Jordanian voice. The launch reaches us through an Israeli outlet and the Israeli army; the not-knowing through an American reporter quoting an unnamed …
Katz says Israel holds Ali al-Taher, tunnels and all. A Hezbollah-bloc MP says the ridge is still being bombed.
Israel's defence minister said on Friday the army had taken the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon and cleared the tunnels beneath it. Hezbollah said nothing for more …
Al Jazeera says Hormuz has been closed for six months. CentCom says 18 million barrels crossed on Tuesday.
The US military counted 40 escorted vessels and about 18 million barrels through the Strait of Hormuz on 1 September. Al Jazeera, which reports the strait has been …
Four outlets, one injunction, two names for the order it blocked
A federal judge in Maryland blocked Trump's new birthright citizenship order on Wednesday. The Washington Examiner headlines it as a ban on "birth tourism" and is the only …
Fox says Bartiromo is out. Her lawyer says she is still employed
Four US outlets, four words for one event: firing, termination, departure, removal. One quotes Fox's release, one quotes the attorney, none carries both — and none has Fox …
Israel's military says it took the Ali Taher Ridge. The one Lebanese account we hold is two days older and names no ridge.
Haaretz reported on 4 September that the Israeli military took over the strategic Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon, where it says Iranian personnel were holed up with …
Saudi Arabia says Iran hit the tanker Sidr in Hormuz. AFP, on the same site, calls the attacks unclaimed.
Projectiles struck two tankers carrying Saudi oil on Monday. Riyadh's foreign ministry names Iran and names the ship. AFP's wire copy on Al-Monitor calls the same attacks unclaimed. …
The US energy secretary says 17 million barrels crossed Hormuz on Monday. AFP says Iran has shut the strait.
LBCI carried it as a single line of ticker at 08:01 on Wednesday 2 September: US energy secretary Chris Wright told CNBC that more than 17 million barrels …
Troops killed two at al-Mughayyir. The IDF says it went in for livestock.
The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry says two Palestinians were shot dead on Wednesday night. The IDF says troops were escorting police to retrieve Israeli-owned animals when a violent …
Washington says 17 million barrels crossed Hormuz. Shipping traders say a third of that.
US officials put throughput at a wartime record — more than 17 million barrels in a day, 40 escorted vessels, 18 million barrels. Oil traders quoted by the …
US strike on a wedding at Kuhestak, and Iran's reply
A US missile hit a house in Kuhestak, on the Strait of Hormuz, where a wedding was being held. Iran struck US bases in Kuwait, the UAE, Jordan …