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The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on 11 May 2026 designated three organisations and nine individuals under the UK’s Iran sanctions regime, citing threats to UK national security, regional stability and the global economy. The named entities are the Berelian Exchange, GCM Exchange and the Zindashti Network.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on 11 May 2026 designated three organisations and nine individuals under the UK’s Iran sanctions regime. The named entities are the Berelian Exchange, GCM Exchange and the Zindashti Network. The named individuals are Mansour, Nasser, Fazlolah, Pouria and Farhad Zarringhalam; Ekrem Abdulkerym Oztunc; Nihat Abdul Kadir Asan; Reza Hamidiravari; and Namiq Salifov.
The designations carry an asset freeze and director disqualification across the three entities and six of the individuals, with a travel ban added for three of the named individuals. The Foreign Secretary said the listings target “criminal proxies backed by parts of the Iranian regime” and the illicit finance networks that move money for them, and that the UK is “coordinating these actions across Europe” in alignment with EU action.
The Zindashti Network has been linked in past UK and US criminal filings to murder-for-hire operations conducted on European soil on behalf of Iranian intelligence. Several of today’s named individuals share a surname, suggesting a family-run financial layer feeding the network. The two exchanges named are typical of the small bureau-de-change businesses that have been the focus of recent Treasury work on Iranian sanctions evasion. The designations take effect on publication in the UK Sanctions List; breach is a criminal offence under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018. Source: FCDO, 11 May 2026.
The Food and Drug Administration on 8 May 2026 approved Bizengri (zenocutuzumab-zbco) for adults with advanced, unresectable or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma — a rare and aggressive cancer of the bile ducts — that carries a neuregulin 1 (NRG1) gene fusion and whose disease has progressed on or after prior systemic therapy. It is the first drug approved in this indication. The approval is the seventh issued under the Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher (CNPV) pilot programme. Efficacy data come from a single-arm trial of 19 patients; the overall response rate was 36.8%, with duration of response from 2.8 to 12.9 months. NRG1 gene fusions are estimated to occur in well under 1% of cholangiocarcinoma cases. See p. 4. Source: FDA, 8 May 2026
The UK Department for Transport on 11 May 2026 confirmed that Cambridge South station, the long-planned stop serving the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, will open for passenger services on Sunday 28 June 2026. The station becomes the first to operate under the Great British Railways brand. Up to nine trains an hour will run from Cambridge South into central Cambridge, and up to 20 services an hour at peak will connect onwards to London, Birmingham, Stansted Airport, and through to international services at St Pancras. Construction has been funded principally by government — over £250 million — with a £5 million contribution split between AstraZeneca, the Cambridge and Peterborough Combined Authority, and the Greater Cambridgeshire Partnership. See p. 7. Source: DfT, 11 May 2026
Representative Tom Barrett (R-MI7) introduced H.J.Res. 176, a joint resolution to authorise the use of United States Armed Forces against the Islamic Republic of Iran, in the House of Representatives on 7 May 2026. The text is listed on GovTrack under the title “2026 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iran.” The resolution was referred to committee on introduction; no floor action has been scheduled. H.J.Res. 176 is the first standalone AUMF directed at Iran filed in the 119th Congress. A joint resolution carries the same legal force as a statute once passed by both chambers and signed by the President. The resolution was introduced alongside H.R. 8670, an oil-export prohibition by Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA32) — see Wires & Wars sidebar. Neither bill has cosponsors at filing. See p. 11. Source: H.J.Res. 176 — GovTrack
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The Central Statistics Office’s New Dwelling Completions table (NDA13), refreshed on 30 April 2026, records 36,246 dwellings completed in the State in calendar year 2025. The figure is up from 30,136 in 2024 — a year-on-year increase of 20.3% — and is the highest annual total in the series since the post-Celtic-Tiger trough.
The breakdown by dwelling type: scheme houses 18,303, apartments 12,042, single houses 5,901. Apartments grew the fastest in proportional terms from 2024 (when only 8,686 were completed), while scheme-house output rose more modestly from 16,192. Single-house completions remain in the 5,000–6,000 band that has held for the past four years.
For longer context, the same table puts 2022 completions at 29,614 and 2023 at 32,473. The 2025 total is the first year above 35,000 in the series.
The 2026 partial value already in the dataset stands at 7,856 dwellings — a single quarter’s worth, not an annual figure — with 4,082 scheme houses, 2,355 apartments and 1,419 single houses. That value will accrete through the rest of the year as quarterly returns are added.
Why these numbers matter: housing supply is the central operating question of Irish economic policy. The Housing for All target, set in 2021, called for an average of 33,000 completions per year through 2030. The 2025 outturn is above that running average but is still well short of the supply estimates produced by the ESRI and the Central Bank, both of which have argued in recent quarters that structural demand sits closer to 50,000 dwellings annually given population growth and household formation.
Apartment completions — historically the slowest-moving component of Irish housing supply — accounting for the largest proportional jump in 2025 will be the figure that draws the most policy attention. The data are sourced from ESB Networks domestic connection records, the CSO’s primary indicator for completed new dwellings ready for occupation. Source: CSO NDA13, 30 April 2026
The Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment initiated the Industrial Development (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2026 — Bill 42 of 2026 — in Dáil Éireann on 6 May 2026. The Bill is now before the Dáil at First Stage.
The substantive purpose is to widen what IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland are statutorily authorised to do. Section 4 amends the Industrial Development Act 1986 to insert a new Section 21A allowing both agencies to make grants on environmental-protection terms — including conditions tied solely to carbon abatement, where the initial approval criteria are otherwise met — and a new Section 21B authorising the agencies to support clients in accessing external consultancy services for technological innovation, environmental protection or business development.
The same section raises the Technology Acquisition grant thresholds at which the agencies must seek separate Government approval before making an award. The new individual-grant ceiling is €7,500,000 and the new aggregate ceiling is €15,000,000.
Section 5 amends the Industrial Development Act 1995 to insert a new Section 6A. This permits IDA Ireland — alone or jointly with Enterprise Ireland — to partner with third parties, including other State agencies making strategic investments, to develop property solutions for industrial or commercial activities, through the creation of Designated Activity Companies (DACs). DACs are a standard Irish corporate form used principally for joint ventures and ring-fenced property structures.
The Bill also amends the Science and Technology Act 1987 to clarify the agencies’ capacity to support dual-use, security and defence projects — a substantive expansion of the statutory remit, given that IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland have historically operated under a strict industrial-development framing.
Miscellaneous unrelated amendments are also included: to the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, the Dangerous Substances Act 1972 (replacing “petroleum-spirit” with a “fuel” definition aligned to the EU Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation), Schedule 3 Part 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2014, and the Chemicals Act 2008. The Bill contains 11 sections; the Explanatory Memorandum is published on the Oireachtas website. Source: Bill 42 of 2026 — Houses of the Oireachtas
ComReg Q1 2026 Consumer Care Report. The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) on 6 May 2026 published its Q1 2026 Consumer Care Report, recording 376 consumer complaints formally managed by the regulator alongside approximately 8,500 broader consumer contacts. Complaint volumes are down 6% on the preceding quarter. Mobile-service providers recorded 2 complaints per 100,000 subscribers; fixed-voice 4.8 per 100,000 lines; fixed-broadband 11 per 100,000 lines. Average resolution time for mobile complaints fell from 13 working days to 11; fixed-service from 11 to 10. ComReg attributes the change to operator procedure adjustments under the existing Code of Practice rather than to any new regulatory measure. Source: ComReg, 6 May 2026
The Food and Drug Administration on 8 May 2026 approved Bizengri (zenocutuzumab-zbco) for adults with advanced, unresectable or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma — a rare and aggressive cancer of the bile ducts — that carries a neuregulin 1 (NRG1) gene fusion and whose disease has progressed on or after prior systemic therapy. It is the first drug approved in this indication.
The approval is the seventh issued under the Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher (CNPV) pilot programme, the FDA’s accelerated-review track for therapies addressing rare diseases with unmet medical need.
The efficacy data come from a single-arm trial of 19 patients with NRG1 fusion-positive cholangiocarcinoma. The overall response rate was 36.8%. The duration of response ranged from 2.8 months to 12.9 months.
Bizengri is a bispecific antibody that targets the HER2 and HER3 receptors and was already approved by the FDA for other NRG1 fusion-positive tumour types. The 8 May decision extends its label to bile-duct cancer.
“Patients with this ultra-rare type of cancer desperately need new treatment options,” FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said in the agency’s announcement. “Through the national priority voucher pilot program, the FDA is accelerating therapies for rare diseases with unmet medical needs, reviewing applications in significantly shortened timelines.”
The CNPV pilot’s first approval, Otarmeni, was issued earlier in 2026. Subsequent approvals have followed at a roughly monthly cadence. The programme does not change the statutory standard for approval — substantial evidence of effectiveness — but compresses the review clock for sponsors whose products meet the pilot’s criteria. NRG1 gene fusions are estimated to occur in well under 1% of cholangiocarcinoma cases. Source: FDA, 8 May 2026
The Food and Drug Administration on 8 May 2026 issued a final guidance for industry titled Postapproval Pregnancy Safety Studies, setting out methodologies sponsors can use after a drug or biologic has been approved to study how the product affects pregnancy.
The need is structural. Pregnant women are routinely excluded from the clinical trials that support initial approval, so at the point of authorisation there is usually limited or no human pregnancy-exposure data for the product. The guidance covers how sponsors can design and run pregnancy registries, observational cohort studies, and complementary analyses in the postapproval setting, and how those data should be interpreted alongside obstetric, paediatric, genetic and statistical input.
“Pregnant women and their healthcare providers need clear, reliable information to make informed treatment decisions,” FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said in the announcement. “This guidance supports better ways to collect safety data, so clinicians have more useful information when counseling patients during pregnancy.”
Tracy Beth Hoeg, Acting Director of the agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), framed the gap the guidance is meant to close. “Currently many medical products may be recommended to pregnant women by healthcare providers in spite of the fact that data from the clinical trials used for FDA approval were insufficient to assess safety during pregnancy,” Hoeg said. “This guidance provides specific recommendations about how post-marketing data can be leveraged and studies can be designed so clinicians and the public can be better informed about product safety and pregnancy-related risks can be more promptly identified.”
Final guidances do not have the force of statute. They set out the agency’s current thinking and the methodological standards sponsors are expected to follow when designing postapproval studies in pregnancy. In practice, the guidance becomes the reference document the FDA will use when reviewing a sponsor’s postmarketing requirements (PMRs) and postmarketing commitments (PMCs) that involve pregnancy exposure.
The document is targeted at sponsors of drugs and biological products. Vaccines, while subject to their own postapproval surveillance regime, are not the principal subject of this guidance. Source: FDA, 8 May 2026
The Federal Reserve Board on 8 May 2026 approved a pair of related applications by Columbia Bank MHC and Columbia Financial, Inc. that together restructure the Columbia group and bring Northfield Bancorp, Inc. into the new top-tier holding company. The order is published as orders20260508a.htm on the Federal Reserve press-releases page, with the full text in orders20260508a1.pdf.
The transactions sit on top of each other. Columbia Financial, Inc. becomes the new top-tier holding company. Columbia Financial acquires Columbia Bank, of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and in doing so becomes a savings and loan holding company. In a simultaneous step, Columbia Financial acquires Northfield Bancorp, Inc., of Woodbridge, New Jersey, which indirectly brings Northfield Bank — headquartered in Staten Island, New York — into the group. The two community-bank franchises run primarily across New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area.
The structure is significant because Columbia Bank has historically operated under a mutual holding company (MHC), Columbia Bank MHC. Mutual holding companies hold their stock in trust on behalf of depositors rather than shareholders, and full-conversion or second-step transactions of this kind reorganise that ownership into a stock holding company that can deploy capital — including to acquire other banks. Northfield Bancorp itself reported total assets of roughly $5.7 billion at end-2024. Columbia Banking System, the post-transaction parent, is substantially larger.
Approval came under the Bank Holding Company Act and the Home Owners’ Loan Act, the two statutes that govern, respectively, ordinary bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies. The Board’s order is the regulatory clearance; the merger is now subject to the parties’ closing conditions. Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 8 May 2026
The European Central Bank’s wage tracker, published on 6 May 2026, reports negotiated wage growth in the euro area at 2.3% for 2026 with the smoothing applied to one-off payments. The unsmoothed series, which captures the full timing of lump-sum bonuses, comes in at 2.6%. The release describes negotiated wage pressures as stable.
The wage tracker is the ECB’s forward-looking indicator built from active and recently concluded collective bargaining agreements, covering 41.9% of employees in the participating euro-area countries. The Bank uses a “double aggregation approach”: country-level indicators are constructed from employee-coverage data within each participating country, then those indicators are aggregated to the euro-area level using time-varying compensation weights across nine member states.
The quarterly profile, also published in the release, shows the smoothed headline indicator averaging 1.8% in the first quarter of 2026, 2.1% in the second quarter, and 2.6% across the third and fourth quarters. The tracker excluding one-off payments — the cleanest read on base-wage dynamics — is expected to run around 2.6% throughout 2026, signalling a more moderate underlying trajectory than the headline series.
Why it matters: the wage tracker is one of the ECB’s principal forward-looking indicators on services-sector and core inflation pass-through. A 2.3% smoothed reading is broadly compatible with the Bank’s medium-term 2% inflation target once productivity growth and the historical wage-price wedge are taken into account. The Bank did not attribute statements to named officials in this release. Source: ECB, 6 May 2026
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde used a keynote at the Banco de España LatAm Economic Forum, held at Castillo de Bará in Spain on 8 May 2026, to argue against promoting euro-denominated stablecoins as a competitive answer to the dollar. The speech is published on the ECB’s website as “Stablecoins and the future of money: separating functions from instruments.”
The argument turns on a distinction. Lagarde separated what a stablecoin actually does into two functions: a monetary function — extending a reserve currency’s reach by making it easier to hold and pay in that currency outside its home jurisdiction — and a technological function, which is settlement on distributed-ledger platforms as native “cash.” Once the two are separated, she said, the case for euro stablecoins weakens, because the underlying benefits don’t require that specific instrument.
The ECB’s preferred alternative is public infrastructure that lets private instruments operate on top of central-bank money. Lagarde named two projects. The Pontes project, due to launch in September 2026, links DLT platforms to TARGET — the euro-area’s wholesale settlement system — so that distributed-ledger transactions can settle in central-bank money. The Appia roadmap sets the longer-horizon goal of a fully interoperable European tokenised ecosystem by 2028.
She positioned the EU framework against the US framework. The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), in force since 2024, sets the euro-area baseline rules for crypto-asset issuance and authorisation. The GENIUS Act, she described, is US legislation oriented towards protecting dollar dominance through stablecoin issuance. “We must build the public infrastructure that will enable alternative instruments… to operate within a framework anchored by central bank money,” Lagarde said. Source: ECB speech, 8 May 2026
The UK Department for Transport on 11 May 2026 confirmed that Cambridge South station, the long-planned stop serving the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, will open for passenger services on Sunday 28 June 2026. An official opening ceremony is scheduled for the following day. The station becomes the first to operate under the Great British Railways (GBR) brand.
The station sits on the West Anglia Main Line and the Cambridge–Birmingham/Stansted route. Up to nine trains an hour will run from Cambridge South into central Cambridge, and up to 20 services an hour at peak will connect onwards to London, Birmingham, Stansted Airport, and through to international services at St Pancras.
Cambridge South is built directly into the Cambridge Biomedical Campus — by area, Europe’s largest cluster of medical research, with around 40,000 daily visitors and 20,000 jobs at present. The DfT release puts the campus’s annual contribution to the UK economy at £4.7 billion, projected to rise to £18.2 billion by 2050, with the employed workforce expected to roughly double.
Construction has been funded principally by government — over £250 million — with a £5 million contribution split between AstraZeneca, the Cambridge and Peterborough Combined Authority, and the Greater Cambridgeshire Partnership.
“Cambridge South will open up access to jobs, homes and world-class facilities for people across the region, boosting the growth of the Biomedical Campus,” said Rail Minister Lord Peter Hendy in the announcement. Network Rail Chief Executive Jeremy Westlake said: “We’re excited to welcome passengers to this landmark station from next month, providing direct access to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.”
The opening is the first visible product of the Great British Railways branding programme, which is meant to consolidate the public-facing identity of the privatised passenger railway under a single name. Substantive structural reform of the rail industry — the legislative side of GBR — sits on a separate, slower timetable. Source: DfT, 11 May 2026
The UK Regulatory Policy Committee on 8 May 2026 issued a “fit for purpose” — green-rated — opinion on the impact assessment supporting new minimum energy efficiency standards (MEES) for socially rented homes in England. The opinion is published on gov.uk and accompanies the impact assessment prepared by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).
The RPC is the UK government’s independent scrutineer of the cost-benefit analysis behind regulatory proposals. Its rating turns on whether the methodology, evidence, and assumptions in the IA are robust enough for Ministers and Parliament to rely on. A green rating signals that the IA, as drafted, is suitable to support the policy decision. The RPC notes — and gov.uk publishes — the standard caveat: the opinion “refers to the evidence and analysis presented in the impact assessment, not the policy itself.”
The underlying programme is the long-trailed extension of MEES standards into the social rented sector. MEES rules already apply to the private rented sector and set a minimum Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) band that a landlord must reach to let a property. The proposal scrutinised by the RPC would establish an equivalent floor for housing associations and local authority landlords, requiring retrofit measures — typically insulation, glazing, heating system upgrades — across the social-housing stock.
Why this matters: the social rented sector accounts for roughly 17% of the English housing stock and concentrates lower-income households and tenants on fixed incomes. Tightening the energy-efficiency standard moves the upgrade-or-divest decision onto social landlords’ balance sheets, but the energy-bill savings accrue to the tenants. The trade-off between landlord capital cost and tenant operating-cost saving is the central question the IA quantifies. Source: gov.uk / RPC, 8 May 2026
Six short briefs from the weekend’s lower-scoring filings. Each is a one-paragraph summary of a published primary document; every URL was checked and resolves to the source listed.
H.R. 8711 introduced — data centre defence strategy (7 May). Representative Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA10) filed H.R. 8711 in the House on 7 May 2026, “To require a strategy for the defense of data centers from external breaches from malefactors and the protection of the communities surrounding data centers.” Subramanyam’s Virginia district contains a substantial slice of the Northern Virginia data-centre cluster. Bill referred to committee at introduction. (GovTrack)
H.R. 8712 introduced — Xinjiang forced-labour disclosure (7 May). The same member filed H.R. 8712 the same day, amending the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require issuers to make certain disclosures relating to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Sits alongside, but does not duplicate, the existing Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act import-presumption regime. Referred to committee at introduction. (GovTrack)
Work Life Balance Bill 2026 — Bill 46 of 2026 (7 May). Senator Sinéad Gibney’s Private Members’ Bill on work-life balance was initiated in the Dáil at First Stage on 7 May 2026. Now before Dáil Éireann. (Oireachtas)
Health (Abolition of Three Day Wait Rule) (Amendment) Bill 2026 — Bill 47 of 2026 (7 May). Sinn Féin health spokesperson David Cullinane TD introduced Bill 47 of 2026 at First Stage on 7 May 2026. The bill is directed at the three-day waiting rule on Illness Benefit. Currently before the Dáil. (Oireachtas)
UK Project Gigabit: £8.3m Openreach contract to upgrade 9,500 Essex premises (11 May). The UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on 11 May 2026 announced an £8.3 million Openreach contract under Project Gigabit covering Brentwood, Chelmsford, Basildon, Clacton and Ardleigh. It is the first Project Gigabit award targeting urban-connectivity gaps as well as rural areas. Government-supported gigabit upgrades have now reached over 1.3 million premises across the UK. (gov.uk)
WHO Director-General message on Tenerife hantavirus response (9 May). WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on 9 May 2026 issued a message to the people of Tenerife on the international response to a hantavirus cluster traced to the expedition vessel MV Hondius, which is carrying the Andes strain. Three fatalities have been reported; no symptomatic passengers remain on board. Spain is bringing the ~150 passengers from 23 countries ashore at Granadilla industrial port through a sealed corridor for direct repatriation. Tedros stated the public-health risk remains low. (WHO)
The Iran legislative package — cosponsor accretion and committee referral
Representative Tom Barrett (R-MI7) filed H.J.Res. 176 — a 2026 Authorization for Use of Military Force against Iran — on 7 May 2026. The same day, Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA32) filed H.R. 8670, prohibiting US exports of crude oil, gasoline and diesel during a period of military operations against Iran. Neither bill has cosponsors at filing; both sit at committee-referral stage. What we’re watching: cosponsor accretion, the committee of referral, and whether either bill is taken up in any May subcommittee markup window. AUMF lead on p. 11; oil-export bill lead on p. 10. Anchor: GovTrack
Bill 42 of 2026 progression — Second Stage in the Dáil
The Industrial Development (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2026 was initiated in the Dáil at First Stage on 6 May 2026. The substantive changes — raising IDA Ireland’s Technology Acquisition grant thresholds to €7.5m individual / €15m aggregate, allowing IDA/EI to establish joint Designated Activity Companies for property projects, and clarifying agency authority to support dual-use, security and defence projects — will be debated at Second Stage. Watch the date the Bill is scheduled for Second Stage and the substance of any amendments tabled. Lead on p. 3. Anchor: Oireachtas
ECB Pontes project — September 2026 launch
In her 8 May 2026 keynote at the Banco de España LatAm Economic Forum, ECB President Christine Lagarde named Pontes — the wholesale-DLT-to-TARGET settlement link — as launching in September 2026. The Appia roadmap targets a fully interoperable European tokenised ecosystem by 2028. Both sit in the ECB’s stated alternative to euro stablecoins. We will be watching the Pontes go-live date and the early-participant list once published. Brief on p. 6. Anchor: ECB speech
Cambridge South opens 28 June 2026 — first GBR-branded station
The UK Department for Transport on 11 May 2026 confirmed the opening date for Cambridge South station, which will be the first to operate under the Great British Railways brand. Up to nine trains an hour into central Cambridge, up to 20 services an hour at peak onwards to London, Birmingham and Stansted Airport. Watch the operating performance of the GBR-branded service from day one. Lead on p. 7. Anchor: DfT
Eighth CNPV approval — expected within four to six weeks
The Bizengri approval for NRG1-fusion cholangiocarcinoma on 8 May 2026 was the seventh under the Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher pilot. The pilot’s cadence has been close to monthly since the first approval (Otarmeni) earlier in 2026. We expect the eighth approval inside the next four to six weeks. The product and indication will tell us whether the pilot is staying within ultra-rare oncology or starting to clear other rare-disease areas. Lead on p. 4. Anchor: FDA
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Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA32) introduced H.R. 8670 in the House on 7 May 2026. The bill provides for the prohibition on exports of crude oil, gasoline, and diesel fuel during a period of military operations against Iran. It was referred to committee on introduction; no floor action has been scheduled.
The bill was filed in the same legislative window as H.J.Res. 176, the standalone 2026 Authorization for Use of Military Force against Iran filed by Representative Tom Barrett (R-MI7) — see the Quiet Laws beat. Sherman’s bill operates as a conditional, not a standing, prohibition: the export ban is triggered by, and lasts the duration of, “a period of military operations against Iran.” The text on GovTrack does not yet specify which authority — Presidential certification, Congressional declaration, or formal AUMF — would activate the trigger.
The substance matters because the United States has been a net petroleum exporter every year since 2020. In 2024 the country exported roughly 4 million barrels per day of crude oil and a further 6 million barrels per day of refined products, according to the Energy Information Administration. A statutory pause on those exports during a hot conflict in the Strait of Hormuz region would tighten Atlantic-basin gasoline and diesel markets at the same time that Iranian and possibly Persian Gulf supply would also be constrained, and would force US refiners to either redirect output to domestic markets or shut in production.
The bill does not preempt existing emergency authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act or the Defense Production Act. It is a standalone statutory mechanism, sitting alongside those tools.
The companion AUMF resolution and the export-prohibition bill together suggest a small bloc of members is assembling a legislative package — authorisation on one side, domestic-supply protection on the other — rather than testing each piece individually. Neither has cosponsors at filing. Source: GovTrack · H.R. 8670
UNHCR’s Refugee Population Statistics database, queried via the agency’s public API, reports 5,484,575 Syrian refugees living outside Syria at the end of 2025, alongside 163,310 asylum seekers, 526,202 returned refugees over the course of the year, 6,468,575 internally displaced persons inside Syria, and 992,509 returnees to their previous internal residence. The figures cover Syria as country of origin and are the most recent year for which the database returns yearend totals. The host-country breakdown is concentrated. Lebanon hosts 755,426 Syrian refugees, Germany 725,102, Jordan 611,473, Iraq 303,611 and Egypt 147,797. Austria, the Netherlands and France each host between 45,000 and 105,000. The five top hosts together account for more than 2.5 million of the 5.48 million figure. Two things are worth noting from the structure of the numbers. The first is the returns column. Over 2025 the agency recorded 526,202 returned refugees — Syrians coming back into Syria from abroad — and 992,509 returnees to original places of residence inside the country. Returns of that order would normally pull down the stock numbers in subsequent years; the 2025 totals reflect both the inflow of new displacement and the outflow of returns. The second is composition. The single largest displaced population associated with Syria is internal — 6.47 million IDPs inside the country — not the 5.48 million refugee population abroad. International debate tends to centre on the refugee figure because it sits in third-country systems, but the IDP figure has been the larger of the two every year since 2014. Source: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics, Syria 2025
Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI12) introduced H.R. 8715 in the House on 7 May 2026. The bill amends the Clean Air Act to provide for the enhancement of a civil penalty against an investor-owned electric or gas utility that raises rates within the two-year window before or after the assessment of that penalty. The full title as filed is “To amend the Clean Air Act to provide for the enhancement of a penalty for an investor-owned electric or gas utility that increase rates within the 2-year period occurring before or after the assessment of the penalty.” The bill was referred to committee on introduction; no floor action has been scheduled.
The mechanism is narrow but unusual. Under the existing Clean Air Act civil-penalty regime (codified principally at 42 U.S.C. § 7413), the Environmental Protection Agency can assess penalties on regulated entities for emissions violations. H.R. 8715 would create a new modifier on top of that calculation: if the violating utility has, in the prior two years, or does in the following two years, raise rates on customers, the penalty is enhanced. The bill text on GovTrack does not yet specify the multiplier or formula.
The target is investor-owned utilities — the bulk of the US electric and gas distribution sector — and the framing places the enforcement risk on the company’s shareholders rather than its ratepayers. Tlaib represents a Detroit-area district served by DTE Energy, which has been the subject of multiple state-level rate-case disputes since 2024.
Bills of this kind are routinely filed by minority-party members and rarely advance without bipartisan cosponsorship or committee-chair sponsorship. The thing to watch is whether the bill picks up cosponsors from House Energy and Commerce committee Democrats and whether it is taken up in any subcommittee markup window before the August recess. Source: GovTrack · H.R. 8715
Representative Tom Barrett (R-MI7) introduced H.J.Res. 176, a joint resolution to authorise the use of United States Armed Forces against the Islamic Republic of Iran, in the House of Representatives on 7 May 2026. The text is listed on GovTrack under the title “2026 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iran.” The resolution was referred to committee on introduction; no floor action has been scheduled. H.J.Res. 176 is the first standalone AUMF directed at Iran to be filed in the 119th Congress. A joint resolution carries the same legal force as a statute once passed by both chambers and signed by the President, and an AUMF is the mechanism Congress uses to grant the executive branch advance statutory cover for the use of military force, separate from the War Powers Resolution’s notification requirements. The resolution was introduced alongside H.R. 8670, a bill by Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA32) prohibiting US exports of crude oil, gasoline and diesel fuel “during period of military operations against Iran” — lead on p. 10. Both bills were filed on 7 May 2026 and are at committee-referral stage. What to watch: the committee of referral and whether the resolution attracts cosponsors from either party in the days after introduction. Past Iran-related AUMF proposals in the 116th and 117th Congresses did not reach a floor vote. The presence of a companion energy-export prohibition in the same week’s hopper suggests a small group of members is preparing a legislative package rather than a single standalone vehicle. Source: GovTrack · H.J.Res. 176
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1820: Florence Nightingale is born to a wealthy English family in the Villa Colombaia in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and named for the city of her birth. She will train at the Lutheran Kaiserswerth deaconess institute in 1851, lead the British nursing detachment at the Scutari barracks hospital in the Crimea from November 1854, and use the resulting Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army (1858) — with its polar-area diagrams of preventable mortality — to professionalise nursing and to argue for sanitation reform. The Nightingale Training School at St Thomas’, London, opens in 1860. She dies on 13 August 1910.
1926: The Italian-built airship Norge, commanded by Roald Amundsen and the American financier Lincoln Ellsworth and piloted by its designer Umberto Nobile, passes over the North Pole at 01:25 GMT and drops the Norwegian, American and Italian flags on the ice. The semi-rigid 106-metre dirigible had left Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen, the previous day and reaches Teller, Alaska, on 14 May, completing the first verified flight across the Arctic Basin. (Robert Peary’s 1909 surface claim was already contested by Frederick Cook; the Norge flight is the first observed and documented crossing.)
1949: The Soviet Union lifts the Berlin Blockade one minute after midnight, restoring road, rail and canal traffic between the three Western occupation zones of Germany and the western sectors of Berlin. The blockade had begun on 24 June 1948 in response to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark in the Western zones; the British and American Operation Vittles airlift had flown 2.3 million tonnes of food, fuel and supplies in 278,228 flights over 11 months. Airlift sorties continue at reduced tempo until 30 September. The blockade hardens the partition that becomes the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic later in 1949.
1965: The Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Israel establish full diplomatic relations, twenty years after the end of the Second World War and four years after the Eichmann trial. The exchange of notes follows a Bundestag majority for ratification of the 1952 Luxembourg Agreement on reparations and an exchange of letters between Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and Prime Minister Levi Eshkol. Rolf Pauls is named the first West German ambassador to Israel and Asher Ben-Natan the first Israeli ambassador to Bonn. Ten Arab League states sever diplomatic relations with Bonn in response.
2008: A magnitude Mw 7.9 earthquake strikes Wenchuan County, Sichuan, at 14:28:01 local time (06:28 UTC); the hypocentre lies on the Longmenshan Fault at a shallow 19 km. The shock and its aftershocks kill an estimated 87,587 people, injure 374,643, and leave 18,222 missing across Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi; 5.36 million buildings collapse and 21 million more are damaged. The State Council activates a national emergency response; the People’s Liberation Army deploys 130,000 personnel for the relief operation, the largest peacetime deployment in PRC history to that date.
2010: Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771, an Airbus A330-202 inbound from Johannesburg, crashes on a non-precision approach to Tripoli International Airport in Libya at 06:00 local time, killing 103 of the 104 people on board. The sole survivor is a nine-year-old Dutch boy, Ruben van Assouw, who is recovered from the wreckage with multiple fractures. The Libyan Civil Aviation Authority’s final report finds the captain continued the approach below decision altitude in a state of somatogravic illusion after a missed-approach call from the first officer; the crew had been on duty for nine hours.
Today’s Numbers
36,246 / +20.3% / 33,000 / ~50,000 — New dwellings completed in the State in calendar year 2025 per the CSO’s NDA13 table refreshed on 30 April 2026; the year-on-year increase on the 2024 total of 30,136; the Housing for All annual running average set in 2021; and the structural-demand estimate the ESRI and the Central Bank have argued for in recent quarters, given population growth and household formation (page 2).
€7.5 m / €15 m / 11 sections — New IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland Technology Acquisition grant ceilings — individual and aggregate — above which a separate Government approval is required, set by the Industrial Development (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2026 (Bill 42 of 2026); and the total number of sections in the Bill, initiated in the Dáil at First Stage on 6 May 2026 (page 3).
2.3% / 2.6% / 41.9% / 9 — Negotiated euro-area wage growth in 2026 on the ECB’s wage tracker smoothed for one-off payments, per the release of 6 May 2026; the unsmoothed series capturing the full timing of lump-sum bonuses; the share of employees in participating countries covered by the tracker; and the number of euro-area member states whose collective bargaining agreements feed the indicator (page 6).
$5.7 bn / 36.8% / 19 — Total assets of Northfield Bancorp at end-2024, the New York-area community bank brought into a new top-tier holding company by the Federal Reserve’s 8 May 2026 approval of the Columbia Financial restructuring (page 6); the overall response rate in the single-arm trial that supported the FDA’s 8 May approval of Bizengri for NRG1-fusion cholangiocarcinoma — the seventh approval under the CNPV pilot; and the number of patients in that trial (page 4).
Word of the Day
MUTUAL HOLDING COMPANY
A corporate form, regulated in the United States principally under the Home Owners’ Loan Act, in which the parent entity of a savings institution holds its stock in trust on behalf of depositors rather than on behalf of shareholders. Depositors receive no dividend and no tradable equity; the institution accumulates retained earnings as if it were a private partnership. Mutual holding companies (often shortened to MHC) are a vestige of the pre-1990s thrift and savings-bank sector and remain common across the US community-bank franchise. The structure matters at the point of transition. A second-step conversion reorganises the MHC ownership into an ordinary stock holding company that can issue shares, raise capital, and deploy that capital, including for acquisitions. The Federal Reserve Board’s order of 8 May 2026 approving the Columbia Financial restructuring, and its acquisition of Northfield Bancorp, is one such transition: Columbia Bank MHC reorganises into Columbia Financial, Inc., a savings and loan holding company under which Columbia Bank of Fair Lawn, NJ and Northfield Bank of Staten Island, NY now sit (see p. 6; cover lead).
Quick Quiz — From Today’s Edition
1. The Federal Reserve Board on 8 May 2026 approved an application by Columbia Financial, Inc. to reorganise from a mutual holding company structure into a stock holding company and simultaneously to acquire a New York-listed peer. Which bank is being acquired, and what were its total assets at year-end 2024?
2. The CSO’s New Dwelling Completions release (NDA13), refreshed on 30 April 2026, reported how many dwelling completions for calendar year 2025, what year-on-year change against 2024, and what figure was the annual running average set under the 2021 Housing for All plan through 2030?
3. The U.S. FDA on 8 May 2026 granted its seventh approval under the Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher (CNPV) pilot, for the bispecific antibody Bizengri (zenocutuzumab-zbco) in NRG1-fusion cholangiocarcinoma. What was the overall response rate in the registrational cohort, how many patients were in the single-arm trial, and what range did the duration of response cover?
Answers: 1. Northfield Bank (of Staten Island, NY); total assets of approximately $5.7 billion at 31 December 2024 (page 6; cover lead). 2. 36,246 completions in 2025; +20.3% on 2024 (30,136); a running average of 33,000 dwellings per year through 2030 (page 2). 3. Overall response rate of 36.8%; 19-patient single-arm trial; duration of response ranged from 2.8 to 12.9 months (page 4).
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” — Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), born in the Villa Colombaia, Florence, on this day in 1820.
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Recipe — Wexford asparagus, Castletownbere poached egg, brown-butter wild-garlic crumb on sourdough: A Tuesday-evening supper that takes twenty minutes from board to plate. Three Irish ingredients carrying the dish, all of them at this week’s peak. Wexford asparagus is in its third good week of the eight-week Irish season; the IFA producers (Andy’s of Coolatore, Drinagh, and the smaller growers around Bunclody) are sending whole crates north into the Dublin and Cork markets. The Castletownbere hen eggs — from the Beara peninsula co-op — are the best free-range eggs in the country between April and June and want only the most careful cooking. The wild garlic in the woods around Avondale, Glencree and the lower Slaney is in its last good week — the small white star-flowers are out, the leaves have started to coarsen, both still good to eat. The crumb: 50 g of yesterday’s sourdough torn into rough pieces and blitzed to coarse breadcrumbs; 30 g of unsalted butter melted in a small heavy pan and pushed past golden to brown (it will smell of toasted hazelnuts at the moment to stop); the crumbs tipped in, tossed for ninety seconds until each piece is gold and glossy; off the heat, a handful of wild-garlic leaves chopped fine and folded through with a pinch of flaky salt. The asparagus (one bunch, about 250 g): snap the woody ends, drop into a wide pan of well-salted boiling water for three minutes, lift out with tongs, drain on a clean tea-towel. The eggs (one or two per person): the same pan brought back to a slow simmer with a splash of white-wine vinegar; the eggs cracked one at a time into a ramekin and slipped in close to the water; three minutes for a yolk that is set on the outside and liquid in the middle; lifted out with a slotted spoon onto kitchen paper. To plate: a thick slice of Mosse’s Bennettsbridge sourdough toasted dark on both sides, rubbed once with a cut clove of last-year’s garlic, laid on a warm plate; the asparagus across it, the poached egg on top, the brown-butter wild-garlic crumb scattered across in a wide arc, a turn of black pepper, a wedge of unwaxed lemon at the rim. A glass of something cold and dry. A clean kitchen by 20:30.
Worth Your Time
Book: Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain by Christian Wolmar (Atlantic Books, 2007). A primary-source-anchored institutional history of the British railway, from the Stockton and Darlington opening in 1825 through nationalisation, privatisation and the post-Hatfield reform debate. The natural pair for today’s page 7 lead on the Cambridge South opening on 28 June 2026 — the first station to operate under the Great British Railways brand, into the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
Book: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner, 2010; Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction, 2011). The most lucid single account of the institutional history of oncology drug development, from the first nitrogen-mustard trials of the 1940s through targeted small molecules to the modern bispecific antibodies. The reading for today’s page 4 lead on the FDA’s seventh approval under the Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher pilot — Bizengri (zenocutuzumab-zbco), a HER2/HER3 bispecific for advanced NRG1-fusion cholangiocarcinoma, with an overall response rate of 36.8% in the 19-patient registrational cohort.
Book: Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami (Pluto Press, 2016; revised edition 2018). Built on first-hand testimony and Arabic-language documentary sources, the most carefully sourced English-language account of the displacement years. The pair for today’s page 10 UNHCR brief: 5,484,575 Syrian refugees living outside Syria at end-2025, 6,468,575 internally displaced inside the country — the IDP figure has been the larger of the two every year since 2014.
Book: Home: Why Public Housing is the Answer by Eoin Ó Broin (Merrion Press, 2023). The Sinn Féin housing spokesperson’s primary-source treatment of the Irish housing-supply question, with chapter-length use of CSO and ESRI series and a chapter on the gap between the Housing for All target and Central Bank structural-demand estimates. The reading alongside today’s page 2 lead on the CSO’s NDA13 release — 36,246 dwelling completions in 2025, +20.3% on 2024, still well short of the ~50,000-per-year structural-demand band the ESRI and the Central Bank now cite.
Place to visit: the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9. The Office of Public Works site on the south bank of the Tolka, founded by the (Royal) Dublin Society in 1795 and Ireland’s principal botanic collection ever since. The Turner-built curvilinear glasshouses, restored 2004, hold the Victoria water-lily; the Great Palm House is back in operation after its multi-year refurbishment. The herbaceous borders and the rose garden are in early-summer planting this week. Open daily 09:00–18:00 in May, free admission; an hour’s walk from the city centre or the no. 4 / 9 / 83 bus from O’Connell Street. A good Tuesday-evening hour after work in the long May light.
Cycling — Giro d’Italia 109 Stage 4 today, the first Italian stage after the Bulgarian opening; race finishes in Rome Sunday 31 May: The 109th edition of the Giro completed its Bulgarian opening triptych on Sunday and used yesterday, Monday 11 May, as the first rest day — the entire race convoy transferred from Bulgaria to Italy. Stage 4 rolls out today, Tuesday 12 May, on the Italian peninsula — the first proper Italian stage of the race. The Bulgarian opening went: Stage 1 from Sofia to Plovdiv (187 km flat) on Friday; Stage 2 to Veliko Tarnovo on Saturday; the rolling Stage 3 closed the Bulgarian start on Sunday 10 May. The race finishes in Rome on Sunday 31 May. The 79th Tour de Romandie, the principal pre-Giro tune-up, closed on Sunday 3 May with the flat 17.1 km individual time trial in Geneva. Route, start list, stage profiles and broadcaster split (Eurosport / discovery+) at giroditalia.it.
Football — Premier League MD36 closed Sunday; MD37 midweek card Wednesday and Thursday; UEFA Champions League final, Allianz Arena, Munich, Saturday 30 May: Premier League MD36 ran across the weekend of 9–10 May and closed on Sunday with the 19:00 BST headline kick-off. With two matchdays remaining the title race is still decided on goal difference, the fourth Champions League qualifying slot is live, and the relegation picture is mathematically open at the foot — the season closes on Sunday 24 May with the simultaneous final-day card. The midweek MD37 card runs on Wednesday 13 May and Thursday 14 May, 19:45 / 20:15 BST kick-offs (Sky / TNT). The Champions League final at the Allianz Arena, Munich, kicks off at 20:00 BST on Saturday 30 May. Standings, broadcaster split and the MD37 fixtures at premierleague.com.
Tennis — Internazionali BNL d’Italia quarter-finals upper half today, Foro Italico, Rome: The combined ATP 1000 / WTA 1000 clay-court swing moved from Madrid to Rome on Wednesday with the main-draw first round opening on Wednesday 6 May at the Foro Italico. The round of sixteen ran across Sunday 10 May (upper-half draws) and Monday 11 May (lower-half card); today, Tuesday 12 May, opens the upper-half quarter-finals. The lower-half quarter-finals follow tomorrow, Wednesday 13 May; the men’s and women’s semi-finals from Thursday 14 May; the women’s singles final on Saturday 16 May and the men’s singles final on Sunday 17 May. The Internazionali is the last 1000-level clay event before Roland-Garros opens on Sunday 24 May. Order of play, draw and broadcaster split (Sky Sports Tennis in the UK and Ireland; discovery+ for the women’s draw) at internazionalibnlditalia.com.
Horse racing — Curragh Sunday card behind us; Lockinge Stakes at Newbury this Saturday: The flat-racing season is past the early-season Newmarket classics — the 2,000 Guineas and the 1,000 Guineas were run at the Rowley Mile across the first weekend of May; the Curragh ran a Sunday flat card on 10 May. The Lockinge Stakes (Group 1, one mile) at Newbury this Saturday, 16 May 2026, is the first of the season’s Group 1 mile contests on the older horses; previewing it through the rest of the week. Race-by-race cards and going at horseracingireland.ie.
League of Ireland — Premier Division Round 12 wrapped Saturday; Round 13 this Friday and Saturday: The 2026 League of Ireland Premier Division Round 12 opened on Friday night with four 19:45 IST kick-offs and closed on Saturday 9 May with the remaining fixtures at the same slot — LOITV live. After Round 12 the title race is one of the tightest on record at this stage of the season; six of the ten Premier Division clubs are within four points at the top of the table. Round 13 follows this Friday 15 May and Saturday 16 May on the same Friday-and-Saturday split. Standings, fixtures and stadium-by-stadium broadcaster pickups at loi.ie.
Results & Fixtures — Week in review & week ahead
| Sat 2 May | Premier League MD35 opens (Sky / TNT); Tour de Romandie queen stage Aigle–Thyon 2000, 167.7 km (Eurosport); Madrid Open men’s & women’s semi-finals (Sky); World Snooker final sessions 2 and 3, 14:30 & 19:00 BST (BBC / Eurosport); League of Ireland Round 11 closing fixtures, 19:45 IST |
| Sun 3 May | Tour de Romandie Stage 5 closing ITT, 17.1 km in Geneva — final GC decided (Eurosport); Madrid Open women’s singles final (Sky); Premier League MD35 Sunday card (Sky / TNT); World Snooker final session 4 (BBC / Eurosport); Punchestown Festival closes |
| Mon 4 May | Premier League MD35 closed — early-May bank-holiday card (Sky / TNT); Madrid Open men’s singles final, Caja Mágica (Sky); World Snooker final deciding session 19:00 BST if required (BBC / Eurosport) |
| Tue 5 May | UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg #1 at the higher-seeded club, 20:00 BST (TNT Sports / discovery+) |
| Wed 6 May | UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg #2 closed at the higher-seeded club, 20:00 BST (TNT Sports / discovery+); Internazionali BNL d’Italia — main-draw first round opens, Foro Italico, Rome (Sky Sports Tennis / discovery+) |
| Thu 7 May | Internazionali BNL d’Italia — second-round main draw, Foro Italico, Rome (Sky Sports Tennis / discovery+); League of Ireland Premier Division Round 12 build-up day |
| Fri 8 May | Giro d’Italia 109 Grande Partenza — Stage 1, Sofia–Plovdiv, 187 km flat (Eurosport / discovery+); League of Ireland Round 12, four 19:45 IST kick-offs (LOITV); Internazionali BNL d’Italia — third-round main draw opens, Foro Italico, Rome (Sky Sports Tennis / discovery+) |
| Sun 10 May | Premier League MD36 Sunday card, 14:00 / 16:30 / 19:00 BST (Sky / TNT); Giro d’Italia Stage 3, third Bulgarian stage (Eurosport / discovery+); Curragh Sunday flat card; Internazionali BNL d’Italia round of sixteen opens (Sky Sports Tennis) |
| Mon 11 May (yesterday) | Giro d’Italia 109 first rest day — transfer Bulgaria–Italy (Eurosport / discovery+); Internazionali BNL d’Italia round-of-sixteen second day, Foro Italico, Rome (Sky Sports Tennis / discovery+) |
| Tue 12 May (today) | Giro d’Italia Stage 4 — first Italian stage after the Bulgarian opening (Eurosport / discovery+); Internazionali BNL d’Italia quarter-finals upper half, Foro Italico (Sky Sports Tennis / discovery+) |
| Wed 13 May | Premier League MD37 midweek card opens, 19:45 / 20:15 BST (Sky / TNT); Giro d’Italia Stage 5 (Eurosport / discovery+); Internazionali BNL d’Italia quarter-finals lower half (Sky Sports Tennis / discovery+) |
| Thu 14 May | Premier League MD37 midweek card closes, 19:45 / 20:15 BST (Sky / TNT); Internazionali BNL d’Italia semi-finals open, Foro Italico (Sky Sports Tennis / discovery+); Giro d’Italia Stage 6 (Eurosport / discovery+) |
| Fri 15 May | League of Ireland Premier Division Round 13, four 19:45 IST kick-offs (LOITV); Giro d’Italia Stage 7 (Eurosport / discovery+) |
| Sat 16 May | Lockinge Stakes (Group 1, 1m) — Newbury (ITV); Internazionali BNL d’Italia women’s singles final (Sky Sports Tennis / discovery+); Premier League MD37 Saturday card; League of Ireland Round 13 closing fixtures, 19:45 IST (LOITV) |
| Sat 30 May | UEFA Champions League final — Allianz Arena, Munich, 20:00 BST (TNT Sports / discovery+) |
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