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The BBC article doesn't use the word "today" anywhere in the text, nor does it provide a date. Does "X set to do Y later" in journalism-speak mean "later today" instead of "later somewhen"? Is this another idiosyncrasy like using commas instead of "and"?

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In Britain, you commonly use it in that form. For example, we might say "want to do X later?".

Perhaps it's just British?

I feel like it's a little different when you speaking to someone versus in a news article. I could read the article tomorrow and be very confused, but I won't hear you say those words tomorrow unless you actually mean tomorrow.

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