Your privacy choices

We use analytics to improve Pollar and, with your consent, marketing tools (Meta, X) to measure our ads. You can change this anytime in Settings.

Privacy policy
Pollar
HomeAskLiveBriefOriginalsSearchMapMarketsNotificationsFor You
ThreadsMarkets
NewsroomSupport Pollar
Privacy
Reader-supported

Free to read, and staying that way

No ads. Membership keeps Pollar independent.

from$2.99/mo

Support Pollar
Membership

Members don't see this panel.

  • Supporter$2.99/mo
  • Founder$6.99/mo
Support Pollar

Today’s Brief

Beijing jails Evergrande's founder

Russia pounds Kyiv as debt, migration and market shocks test strained governments

The past 12 hours brought hard news for governments that already looked stretched. Russia hit Kyiv, Spain struggled to move migrants out of Ceuta, America crossed a forbidding debt line, China jailed the man who embodied its property boom, and drugmakers pushed cancer vaccines closer to ordinary medicine.

Read the Brief

Live now

All live coverage

  • Fire in Thusis, Switzerland

    Firefighters battle a restaurant blaze in Thusis as 5 people remain missing and 8 are injured

  • UN Secretary-General selection dispute

    US and Russia criticize UN General Assembly President Baerbock, accusing her of overreach during the Security Council straw poll on Friday

  • Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil verdict

    Convicts former organizers Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho of inciting subversion in a national security trial, with sentencing scheduled for a later date

In the spotlight

All threads

World · Updated 2h ago

The war in Ukraine and its limits

US Army disbands a Europe-based drone battalion; Russian strikes add gas infrastructure and a Moldova border crossing to the target set.

HomeBriefThreadsAsk
Categories
Live
Photo: Berliner Zeitung↗
Catching up

UN Secretary-General selection dispute

Geopolitics·High·Reported 8h 52m ago·Updated 1h 12m ago
  1. Chapter 1 of 1Catching upReported 8h 52m ago

    UN Secretary-General selection dispute

    US and Russia criticize UN General Assembly President Baerbock, accusing her of overreach during the Security Council straw poll on Friday

How Pollar Live works