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No FIFA World Cup 2026 broadcast deals signed in India, China

"The lack of a confirmed broadcast agreement with India or China is unusual at this stage.

In past World Cups, including 2018 and 2022, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV secured the rights well in advance and began airing promotional content and sponsor-driven advertisements weeks before the tournament.

The 2026 tournament kicks off on June 11, leaving barely five weeks for a deal to be finalised, broadcast infrastructure to be set up and advertising inventory to be sold."

aljazeera.com
u/ForwardDiamond3484 — 4 days ago
▲ 22 r/GuardTheLeaf

Why fixing America is much harder than fixing Hungary

"The key factors that make rescuing American democracy extremely difficult are the Supreme Court, the Senate, gerrymandering, and the Constitution itself."

Excellent piece.

Was just watching GTL's comments on the "when you are ready" robo-messaging and was thinking that Americans have no sense of what it will take to restore global trust. None. Put simple, so we can believe this mayhem will not happen again. Am writing from London.

publicnotice.co
u/ForwardDiamond3484 — 5 days ago
▲ 8 r/LabourUK

Labour wins Newham Mayoralty

Forhad Hussain got 25,538 total votes.

Mehmood Mirza, for Newham Independents Party came second with 20,234 votes, with the Green Party’s Areeq Chowdhury in third with 8,999 votes.

reddit.com
u/ForwardDiamond3484 — 7 days ago
▲ 6 r/GuardTheLeaf

Cubans applying for a US visa will now find themselves between a rock and a hard place. When consulate officials ask them if they fear what might happen to them in their home country, they will face the dilemma of lying—which would result in a permanent prohibition on entering the country—or telling the truth, in which case the visa will be denied.

Embassies and consulates received a diplomatic cable this week from the State Department indicating that visas should be denied to those who declare fear of their country’s regime.

translatingcuba.com
u/ForwardDiamond3484 — 13 days ago
▲ 3 r/LabourUK

Jeremy Corbyn MP is our guest on this May Day morning. Now an independent MP and the leader of Your Party, Jeremy has been in Westminster for 43 years - for 41 of those as a Labour MP. He was leader of Labour Party from 2015 to 2020, and fought two general elections in 2017 and 2019. He talks about this to Gyles in this episode, and about the bitter divisions and recriminations that followed the final defeat.

He also talks about his childhood, growing up in Wiltshire and Shropshire, with free-thinking parents who encouraged him to make things and gave him a lot of freedom. He talks about being an academic under-achiever, his formative experiences with VSO in Jamaica as a teenager, and travelling in revolutionary South America. He talks about being awkward, his love of reading, and his continuing commitment to making the world a better place.

Whatever your politics, we hope you find this an inspiring, interesting and illuminating listen with one of the longest-standing and most committed of our politicians.

With our thanks to Jeremy Corbyn for his time, energy and conversation.

u/ForwardDiamond3484 — 13 days ago
▲ 43 r/GuardTheLeaf

Travel advisories have been issued to World Cup visitors travelling to the United States. This is insane. It's the sort of thing you see governments issuing for hostile and unstable countries, not human rights groups for the world's largest and most open economy. Yet this is the reality of Trump's America - visitors are not necessarily safe to travel.

Added: Here is the travel advisory that Phil is referring to.

'Over 120 Civil Society Groups Issue Travel Advisory for U.S. Ahead of FIFA World Cup
Groups warn that deteriorating human rights situation in U.S. could put people in host cities at risk, citing ICE abuses, suppression of speech, and more'

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/over-120-civil-society-groups-issue-travel-advisory-for-u-s-ahead-of-fifa-world-cup

Here is Fox News: 'ACLU, NAACP accused of trying to 'sabotage' US tourism with 'fearmongering' campaign' https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aclu-naacp-accused-trying-sabotage-us-tourism-fearmongering-campaign

>Davis Ingle, a spokesperson for the White House, emphasized to Fox News Digital that "international visitors who legally come to the United States for the World Cup have nothing to worry about."

>While emphasizing that foreign visitors must be "proactive" in preparing their travel documents ahead of time, he dismissed the advisory as "ridiculous scare tactics driven by liberal activist groups and the left-wing media."

>"What makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is whether or not they are illegally in the U.S.— full stop," he explained. "Speculation to the contrary is ill-informed."

u/ForwardDiamond3484 — 14 days ago