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NFL owners voted to remove the privilege allowing teams to shield up to two home games from international export, granting schedulers more flexibility to place games globally (including London) and potentially boost international visibility for the league.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s high‑profile meeting with Cuba’s Interior Minister and the head of Cuban intelligence in Havana marks the clearest public milestone yet in two months of opaque U.S.–Cuba negotiations, unfolding as Cuba grapples with a severe fuel shortage and blackouts under an energy embargo. The talks come amid mixed signals from Washington about openness to diplomacy and aid conditioned on reforms, while Havana stresses bilateral cooperation and maintains its security apparatus, even as protests over living conditions intensify.
The Cowboys’ 2026 regular season includes a 27,980-mile travel load and a first-ever international game against the Baltimore Ravens in Rio de Janeiro (Week 3), plus a Thanksgiving showdown with the Eagles. The 17-game slate opens Week 1 at the Giants, with trips to Houston, Green Bay, Seattle, and Los Angeles, a Week 14 bye, and six primetime games as Dallas aims to rebound from a 7-9-1 finish in 2025 under Brian Schottenheimer.
The NFL announced a record nine international regular-season games for 2026 across Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, Madrid, Munich and Mexico City. The expansion marks the league’s growing global footprint, with notable matchups like Ravens vs Cowboys in Rio and the 49ers hosting the Vikings in Mexico City; meanwhile the Rams and 49ers travel to Melbourne, and several teams (Colts, Commanders, Falcons, Steelers) are bound for Europe again, while Jacksonville will play two UK home games due to stadium renovations.
San Francisco opens the 2026 season against the Rams in Melbourne as part of the NFL’s largest-ever international slate, then plays the Vikings in Week 11 in Mexico City, with the nine-game, eight-stadium global schedule spanning four continents and Netflix set to air a Thanksgiving Eve game as part of the expanded international package.
Bafta TV Awards crowned winners across drama, comedy, entertainment and more: Code Of Silence won Best Drama Series, Adolescence Best Limited Drama; acting honours went to Stephen Graham and Narges Rashidi, with Owen Cooper and Christine Tremarco taking Supporting categories; Amandaland won Scripted Comedy; Steve Coogan and Katherine Parkinson won top comedy acting prizes; The Celebrity Traitors won Reality; EastEnders won Soap; The Studio won International; Special Bafta Fellowship to Dame Mary Berry and a Special Award to Martin Lewis. The list covers many categories with nominees and notes that some winners were announced ahead of broadcast.
AP’s May Day photo gallery highlights workers marching for labor rights across continents, offering a visual snapshot of international demonstrations within the World News coverage.
The Guardian’s daily photo gallery selects images from around the world, including Jakarta’s train wreck, smoke near the Israel–Lebanon border, Kathmandu’s riverbank demolitions, and a Vienna IS-related trial, among others, to offer a visual snapshot of current events and global life.
A year after the SAF retook Khartoum, much of the capital is a ghost town as fighting continues across Sudan, exposing a massive humanitarian crisis with millions in need and displaced. Foreign backers, political infighting, and a politicized aid system complicate relief, while local activists and health officials voice resilience and advocate decentralizing health services to help rebuild the country.
Two Cache County, Utah residents are charged with international parental kidnapping after allegedly taking a 10-year-old to Havana, Cuba, instead of returning the child to the biological mother per a custody order; the trio had planned a Canada camping trip but crossed into Mexico and Cuba, where Cuban authorities later located them and the child was returned to the United States, with Utah courts granting the mother exclusive custody. The FBI and federal and state agencies, including the Diplomatic Security Service and ICE, helped locate and recover the child, and the case is being prosecuted in Utah as part of Project Safe Childhood.
Victor Davis Hanson argues that Trump’s selective blockade against Iran could rapidly cripple Tehran by cutting its oil revenue and pressuring its proxies, while forcing Gulf exporters to reroute trade, thereby portraying Iran as a “paper tiger” and revealing the Left’s underestimation of U.S. military and economic leverage.
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu said Russia would defend itself against Ukrainian drone attacks and presented two possible drone origins: Russia’s air defenses being ineffective or drones being launched from the territory of Finland and the Baltic states, a line of reasoning tied to Article 51 of the UN Charter. The remarks come amid broader tensions with NATO and concerns about Estonia, with prior 2025 warnings that Russia could threaten Europe by 2027.
BBC plans to cut 1,800–2,000 jobs over the next two years in a sweeping cost‑cutting drive, using a voluntary redundancy scheme and tighter controls on hiring, travel and consultants. The move aims to address a funding model the corporation calls unsustainable, as it pursues billions in savings, including outsourcing non‑content roles.
The U.S. Treasury eased sanctions on Venezuela’s state-run banks to help revive the country’s ailing economy amid protests over wages, allowing use of U.S. dollars, unlocking oil revenue, and reintegrating Venezuela into the U.S.-led financial system through targeted licenses for key institutions.
The Observer argues that NATO is damaged and Europe must bolster its own defences, diversify security partnerships (including Gulf states) and explore formal European security structures, as trust in the U.S. alliance wanes amid Trump-era politics, leaving Britain, France and Germany to drive a recalibrated, ad‑hoc approach to collective security while a long-term coherent strategy remains elusive.