# Pollar

> Start with an event. Pollar is a pan-European editorial news outlet with AI-assisted summaries, evergreen topic threads, a daily brief, and live market data. Content is published in English, Polish, German, and French; the locale prefix in URLs selects the language (e.g. /en/, /pl/, /de/, /fr/).

## Daily editorial

- [Daily brief](https://pollar.news/en/brief): twice-daily editorial digest of EU + world news, ~5 minutes of reading
- [Markets](https://pollar.news/en/markets): EU + global indices, EUR-pivoted FX, commodities, crypto, US Treasury bonds — refreshed minute-by-minute from Yahoo Finance
- [Explore on map](https://pollar.news/en/explore): events plotted geographically across Europe and the world

## Evergreen threads

12 long-running topic threads grouped into europe / world / other. Each thread has a thesis, a current state-of-play, week highlights, and a chronicle of recent developments (updated every 6h by the research agent).

- [Brussels vs capitals: EU integration](https://pollar.news/en/threads/eu-integration): Sovereignty within the European Union is not static; it is continuously contested and renegotiated through legal rulings, treaty interpretat
- [The Green Deal under revision](https://pollar.news/en/threads/green-deal): The EU's climate agenda has formally pivoted from legislative expansion to a phase of implementation, simplification, and competitiveness-dr
- [The ageing Union's economy](https://pollar.news/en/threads/eu-economy): Europe's competitiveness is squeezed between weak productivity, demographic decline, and the green transition's cost, while persistent infla
- [European democracies and populism](https://pollar.news/en/threads/democracy-populism): Populist and anti-liberal political forces are gaining institutional ground within the European Union, testing and at times reshaping the bo
- [Demography and migration](https://pollar.news/en/threads/demography-migration): An ageing Europe faces a structural need for labour immigration to sustain its economy and welfare systems, yet political sentiment across m
- [AI: capabilities, regulation, labour](https://pollar.news/en/threads/ai-revolution): The rapid convergence of frontier-model capabilities continues to compress competitive advantage cycles and test regulatory guardrails, whil
- [Climate: from mitigation to adaptation](https://pollar.news/en/threads/climate-adaptation): The world has crossed the 1.5°C warming threshold, forcing a pivotal narrative shift from solely preventing climate change to urgently adapt
- [Culture, media and the new divides](https://pollar.news/en/threads/culture-media): The European information ecosystem faces increasing pressure from collapsing traditional media business models, algorithmic-driven polarizat
- [China and the West: decoupling](https://pollar.news/en/threads/china-west): The strategic de-risking of Western economies from China has escalated into a reciprocal regulatory conflict, where China's new legal counte
- [The war in Ukraine and its limits](https://pollar.news/en/threads/ukraine-war): The war is characterized by a reciprocal escalation of long-range strikes, with Ukraine systematically targeting Russian logistics, energy i
- [The Middle East after Gaza](https://pollar.news/en/threads/middle-east): The Gaza war has accelerated a fundamental realignment of Middle Eastern power, shifting influence from traditional centers like Egypt and S
- [The US under Trump: second term](https://pollar.news/en/threads/us-under-trump): US foreign policy under the Trump administration is shifting decisively from multilateralism toward a doctrine of transactional bilateral ba

## Recent events (last 50)

Individual event briefs, AI-summarised from multiple sources, with structured locations / mentioned people / source attribution.

- [Nick Kyrgios receives provisional tennis ban after testing positive for cocaine in Mallorca](https://pollar.news/en/event/kyrgios-suspended-for-cocaine): The International Tennis Integrity Agency has provisionally suspended Nick Kyrgios after a June sample from an ATP event in Mallorca returne
- [United States sanctions ICC President Tomoko Akane and prosecutor Abdoulaye Seye](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-sanctions-icc-leaders): The United States has imposed financial sanctions on International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane and senior prosecutor Abdoulaye Sey
- [Four US states seek $200 billion from Meta in federal youth addiction trial](https://pollar.news/en/event/meta-addiction-trial-begins): California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey began presenting arguments in an Oakland federal court, accusing Meta of violating child priv
- [Frank Beard, longtime drummer of Texas blues-rock trio ZZ Top, dies at 77](https://pollar.news/en/event/frank-beard-dies-at-77): Frank Beard, who anchored the rhythm section of ZZ Top for more than five decades, died at his ranch in Richmond, Texas, as the band prepare
- [Disney and ABC sue the FCC to block early broadcast license reviews for eight stations](https://pollar.news/en/event/abc-sues-fcc-over-licenses): The Walt Disney Company and ABC filed a First Amendment lawsuit in Washington federal court to halt Federal Communications Commission procee
- [Ukraine's ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov calls for wartime presidential election](https://pollar.news/en/event/fedorov-demands-ukraine-elections): Former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov urged Ukraine to establish voting mechanisms during the war with Russia, challenging President Volo
- [Trump pauses 50% tariffs on Canadian goods for three days following trade talks](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-canada-tariff-talks): US President Donald Trump agreed to a 72-hour suspension of proposed 50% tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian imports after reaching a prelimi
- [Granada faces earthquake swarm as shallow tremors injure three and damage buildings](https://pollar.news/en/event/48-quake-shakes-granada): A sequence of shallow earthquakes centered near Gójar and Alhendín has caused non-structural damage across Granada province, triggering buil
- [Jamal Musiala reveals neurological condition after two match collapses in four days](https://pollar.news/en/event/musiala-collapses-in-bayern-win): Bayern Munich midfielder Jamal Musiala has disclosed that he suffers from treatable absence episodes caused by a neurological dysfunction, f
- [AS Monaco and Paul Pogba mutually terminate contract after 115 minutes of play](https://pollar.news/en/event/pogba-leaves-monaco): The French midfielder leaves Monaco after making six appearances across one season, following fresh knee and hamstring injuries during pre-s
- [France apologizes as ZeroBytes cyberattack compromises 700,000 tax records](https://pollar.news/en/event/massive-french-tax-data-breach): The French government introduced emergency security measures and issued an apology after hackers breached systems holding data on nearly 700
- [UK prime minister unveils £442m plan to house rough sleepers by Christmas](https://pollar.news/en/event/burnham-unveils-homelessness-plan): Prime Minister Andy Burnham has pledged to provide shelter for rough sleepers across England by Christmas under a £442 million initiative ba
- [Patrick Vieira named Senegal head coach following Pape Thiaw dismissal](https://pollar.news/en/event/vieira-named-senegal-head-coach): The Senegalese Football Federation appointed Patrick Vieira on an agreement reportedly running through 2030, succeeding Pape Thiaw following
- [Hayden Panettiere dies at 36 in South Carolina apartment as police investigate cause](https://pollar.news/en/event/hayden-panettiere-dies-at-36): The 36-year-old actor was pronounced dead in a Greenville apartment on Sunday afternoon, prompting a local police and coroner investigation 
- [Unitree raises $905 million in Shanghai IPO and unveils Superman humanoid robot](https://pollar.news/en/event/unitree-launches-superman-robot): Chinese robotics maker Unitree has debuted on Shanghai's STAR Market after raising 6.1 billion yuan, days after demonstrating a prototype hu
- [Croatian police arrest Ukrainian diver wanted by Germany over 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage](https://pollar.news/en/event/nord-stream-suspect-arrested): Croatian authorities in Pula detained Ukrainian national Wolodymyr Z. on a German European arrest warrant, making him the second suspect app
- [Spain Prepares Urgent Mainland Transfer for 500 Migrant Girls from Ceuta](https://pollar.news/en/event/ceuta-health-system-near-collapse): Spain's Ministry of Youth and Children is preparing to transfer approximately 500 migrant girls from Ceuta to mainland child protection orga
- [US and South Korea cut joint Ulchi Freedom Shield drills short by six days following Trump order](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-cuts-south-korea-drills): The Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise will end on 21 August instead of 27 August after Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to scale back operatio
- [UK July inflation rises to 2.9% as energy price cap increase lifts household bills](https://pollar.news/en/event/uk-inflation-reaches-29): Annual inflation in the UK accelerated to 2.9% in July following a 13% increase in Ofgem's household energy price cap, marking the first pic
- [LandSpace lands reusable Zhuque-3 booster in Gansu after orbital launch](https://pollar.news/en/event/landspace-lands-zhuque-3-booster): Chinese commercial aerospace firm LandSpace recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on landing legs in Gansu province on Wednesday,
- [Russian drone strike on Kherson passenger bus kills four civilians and injures four](https://pollar.news/en/event/kherson-bus-drone-strike): A Russian loitering munition hit a yellow public transit minibus during the morning hours in southern Ukraine, scattering debris across a fr
- [Erin Patterson begins court appeal against mushroom murder convictions in Melbourne](https://pollar.news/en/event/erin-patterson-appeals-convictions): Lawyers for the 51-year-old argue that housing jurors in the same hotel as police and prosecutors denied her a fair trial, while the state a
- [Warsaw Uprising soldier and activist Wanda Traczyk-Stawska dies at 99](https://pollar.news/en/event/wanda-traczyk-stawska-dies-at-99): Wanda Traczyk-Stawska, a Polish psychologist, educator, and Warsaw Uprising veteran known by the codenames Atma and Pączek, died in Warsaw o
- [TikTok prepares peer-to-peer payment feature inside direct messages](https://pollar.news/en/event/tiktok-tests-messaging-payments): Hidden code discovered in TikTok's US application shows the platform is preparing a peer-to-peer payment tool to let users transfer money vi
- [AS Roma signs Rodrigo Mora from FC Porto in potential €50M agreement](https://pollar.news/en/event/roma-signs-rodrigo-mora): AS Roma has completed the signing of 19-year-old Portuguese midfielder Rodrigo Mora from FC Porto on a contract running until 2031, paying a
- [Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov Calls for Wartime Elections](https://pollar.news/en/event/fedorov-calls-for-wartime-elections): Mykhailo Fedorov published an address warning of a systemic governance crisis and demanding legal mechanisms to allow Ukrainian citizens to 
- [NASA Releases Orbiter Images of Lunar Crater Formed by SpaceX Falcon 9 Impact](https://pollar.news/en/event/nasa-photos-show-lunar-crater): NASA has published photographs taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter showing an 18-meter-wide crater created when a SpaceX Falcon 9 boos
- [Barcelona sign midfielder Rodri from Manchester City on deal through 2030](https://pollar.news/en/event/barcelona-sign-rodri-from-city): FC Barcelona completed the signing of Spanish midfielder Rodri from Manchester City for a fee valued up to 76.5 million euros on a four-year
- [Remains of two Belgian climbers missing since 1992 found on Swiss glacier](https://pollar.news/en/event/missing-1992-climbers-found): DNA testing has confirmed the identity of two Belgian mountaineers whose remains were uncovered on the Trift Glacier in Saas-Grund after the
- [Apple cuts EU App Store fees and replaces per-install charge to comply with Digital Markets Act](https://pollar.news/en/event/apple-cuts-eu-developer-fees): Apple will replace its per-install Core Technology Fee with a 5% commission and lower App Store purchase rates to 26% across the European Un
- [Romania issues orange and yellow heatwave alerts as temperatures reach 39 degrees](https://pollar.news/en/event/romania-issues-heatwave-alerts): The National Meteorological Administration placed eight counties under an orange alert from 20 August as a heatwave spreads across Romania w
- [OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with automated age detection and parental controls](https://pollar.news/en/event/openai-launches-teen-chatgpt): The restricted mode automatically limits emotional conversation, restricts sensitive topics, and adds study tools for users aged 13 to 17 ac
- [UK watchdog investigates Trainline, Virgin Atlantic, and RED Driving School over drip pricing](https://pollar.news/en/event/uk-probes-hidden-fees): The Competition and Markets Authority opened investigations into Trainline, Virgin Atlantic, and RED Driving School over hidden fees that di
- [Polish Defence Ministry clarifies city anti-missile shield after general's remarks](https://pollar.news/en/event/poland-clarifies-city-missile-defence): Poland's Ministry of National Defence clarified that air and missile defence operates as an integrated system, responding to remarks by Brig
- [WHO warns DRC Ebola outbreak is not under control as deaths pass 2,300](https://pollar.news/en/event/drc-ebola-outbreak-spreads): The World Health Organization warned that the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo remains uncontrolled, with n
- [Harvard agrees to 53 million dollar settlement over medical school morgue body parts theft](https://pollar.news/en/event/harvard-settles-morgue-lawsuits): Harvard University has agreed to a $53 million class-action settlement with families of donors whose bodies were stolen and sold on the blac
- [Wildfire in Cáceres burns 1,600 hectares and forces 700 evacuations](https://pollar.news/en/event/cceres-wildfire-forces-evacuations): A wildfire in the Las Hurdes region of Cáceres burned 1,600 hectares of pine forest, prompting the evacuation of 700 residents across ten ha
- [EU allows budget deficit flexibility for energy projects, allocating €14.4B to Italy](https://pollar.news/en/event/eu-grants-energy-leeway): The European Commission published 22 eligible measures under the Stability Pact safeguard clause, granting Italy €14.4 billion in deficit le
- [US and Turkey condemn eight Israeli airstrikes on Syrian Abu al-Duhur airbase in Idlib](https://pollar.news/en/event/israel-strikes-syrian-airbase): Eight early-morning airstrikes struck runway and storage facilities at Abu al-Duhur military airbase in northwestern Syria on Tuesday, drawi
- [Venus Williams receives US Open wildcard at 46 as Serena awaits final spot](https://pollar.news/en/event/williams-sisters-lose-doubles-return): The USTA awarded main-draw wildcards to former champions Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens on Tuesday, keeping one women's singles spot ope
- [Climate change added up to two degrees to European sea temperatures in July](https://pollar.news/en/event/climate-change-heats-european-seas): A study by World Weather Attribution found that fossil fuel emissions added up to 2 degrees Celsius to the Mediterranean Sea and Western Eur
- [Romania opens 400 million lei residential battery scheme and 150 million euro grid storage auction](https://pollar.news/en/event/romania-funds-battery-storage): The Ministry of Environment launched public consultation for a 400 million lei prosumer battery subsidy, while a separate 150 million euro a
- [Liberia agrees to receive up to 1,200 third-country deportees from United States](https://pollar.news/en/event/liberia-accepts-us-deportees): The Liberian government has agreed to accept up to 1,200 foreign nationals deported from the United States over twelve months, with the firs
- [Three die in Sifnos helicopter crash as Greek aviation authority orders Bell 206 fleet checks](https://pollar.news/en/event/sifnos-helicopter-crash-kills-three): A private Bell 206 helicopter crashed near the helipad on the Greek island of Sifnos on 17 August 2026, killing a veteran pilot and two Brit
- [IDF admits soldiers marked Palestinian detainees with numbers during West Bank raid](https://pollar.news/en/event/idf-marks-west-bank-detainees): Israeli military commanders reprimanded soldiers after troops wrote identification numbers with marker pens on the foreheads and arms of Pal
- [France orders expulsion of two Iranian diplomats after embassy staff barred from Tehran](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-expels-iranian-diplomats): Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced the expulsions after Tehran barred two French diplomats who were detained and intimidated by Ira
- [Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov calls for wartime elections](https://pollar.news/en/event/fedorov-calls-for-ukraine-elections): Dismissed Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov urged Ukrainian authorities to establish a legal path for national elections despite martial law
- [UAE suspends trade with Iran after two ballistic missiles land in Gulf waters](https://pollar.news/en/event/uae-halts-iran-trade): The United Arab Emirates halted all commercial ties and financial transactions with Iran on 18 August 2026 after air defense systems tracked
- [Federacciai and 14 Italian Steelmakers Submit Bid for Ex-Ilva Assets Excluding Taranto Hot Area](https://pollar.news/en/event/federacciai-bids-for-ex-ilva): The Italian steel federation Federacciai and 14 domestic producers have submitted an expression of interest to acquire ex-Ilva facilities, f
- [IAEA inspectors examine tons of undeclared nuclear material discovered in Syria](https://pollar.news/en/event/iaea-inspects-syrian-nuclear-site): UN nuclear inspectors have gained access to tons of nuclear material at an undeclared facility in Syria following formal notification by the

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