Travelling story

Former BND chief Hanning arrested for espionage

First seen in Germany’s press on 6 October 2026. Carried by 15 presses over 2 days, 92 articles in all; the busiest day was 6 October 2026 with 73 articles.

Ended — carried by the press of 15 countries between 6 October 2026 and 7 October 2026.

Articles per day

The spread, day by day

For each day: the articles the presses gave it, and the presses that carried it for the first time that day.

7 October 2026 19 articles · 15 presses so far
new: Australia (2)
6 October 2026 73 articles · 14 presses so far
new: Germany (19), Austria (7), Czechia (7), Netherlands (7), Belgium (5), Romania (5), Slovakia (5), Poland (4), Italy (3), Switzerland (3), Brazil (2), Serbia (2), Sweden (2), Ukraine (2)

The presses that carried it

Ranked by articles over the whole story; the date is the first day each press carried it.

Germany 32 articles · from 6 Oct 2026
Austria 9 articles · from 6 Oct 2026
Czechia 7 articles · from 6 Oct 2026
Netherlands 7 articles · from 6 Oct 2026
Romania 7 articles · from 6 Oct 2026
Belgium 5 articles · from 6 Oct 2026
Slovakia 5 articles · from 6 Oct 2026
Poland 4 articles · from 6 Oct 2026
Switzerland 3 articles · from 6 Oct 2026
Italy 3 articles · from 6 Oct 2026
Brazil 2 articles · from 6 Oct 2026
Serbia 2 articles · from 6 Oct 2026
Sweden 2 articles · from 6 Oct 2026
Ukraine 2 articles · from 6 Oct 2026
Australia 2 articles · from 7 Oct 2026

What they wrote

A few headlines per day, in the outlets’ own words; the translation is ours when shown.

Romania · 7 Oct 2026 Fostul șef al serviciilor de informații germane acuzat de spionat ar fi transmis mii de documente către un contact din Caucaz. Pentru ce țară ar fi lucrat ↗
Australia · 7 Oct 2026 ‘Mr Security’ led Germany’s top spy agency for years. He’s now suspected of selling state secrets ↗
Austria · 7 Oct 2026 Deutscher Ex-Geheimdienstchef Hanning festgenommen ↗
Germany · 7 Oct 2026 Bundesgerichtshof: Spionageverdacht: Kommt Ex-BND-Chef Hanning in U-Haft? ↗
Netherlands · 6 Oct 2026 Voormalig chef Duitse inlichtingen opgepakt vanwege spionage ↗
Czechia · 6 Oct 2026 Německá policie zadržela bývalého šéfa rozvědky BND pro podezření ze špionáže ↗
Austria · 6 Oct 2026 Ex-Geheimdienstchef Hanning festgenommen ↗
Germany · 6 Oct 2026 Ermittler nehmen Ex-BND-Chef Hanning fest ↗

Topics are clustered daily from article embeddings across the outlets we read and chained day over day when their centroids match (cosine ≥ 0.80); a story is attributed to the press of each outlet’s country. Where it was first seen is where it first appeared in our feeds. Coverage, not truth; order of appearance, not origin or intent. Method →

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