# 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 continuously contested and renegotiated through legal rulings, fiscal rules, and political conditio - [The Green Deal under revision](https://pollar.news/en/threads/green-deal): The EU's climate agenda has shifted from legislative expansion to implementation, simplification, and competitiveness-driven recalibration, - [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): Frontier-model safety failures now directly block product releases and strain regulatory guardrails, as leading labs split between resisting - [Climate: from mitigation to adaptation](https://pollar.news/en/threads/climate-adaptation): The world has crossed the 1.5°C warming threshold and the UN now formally deems the breach unavoidable, projecting at least 1.8°C. The EU is - [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 polarization, an - [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 legal countermea - [The war in Ukraine and its limits](https://pollar.news/en/threads/ukraine-war): Russia and Ukraine sustain intense reciprocal infrastructure strikes, pairing extensive missile barrages against Ukrainian population centre - [The Middle East after Gaza](https://pollar.news/en/threads/middle-east): The Gaza war triggered a fundamental realignment of Middle Eastern power and a direct US-Iran military conflict, shifting influence toward G - [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. - [French school protests continue as arrests top 6,600 since late September](https://pollar.news/en/event/french-student-protests-expand): Police fired tear gas at a barricaded Paris lycée and at Place de la Bastille on Thursday, as 71,500 people demonstrated nationwide. The gov - [South African judge Navi Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting international law](https://pollar.news/en/event/pillay-wins-nobel-peace-prize): The Norwegian Nobel Committee named the former UN human rights chief and International Criminal Court judge on Friday, 9 October. It was the - [Police accept Andrew's search warrants were unlawful, but Epstein probe continues](https://pollar.news/en/event/mountbatten-windsor-sues-uk-police): Thames Valley Police accepted in the High Court that the warrants used to search Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's Sandringham and Windsor homes - [WMO says El Niño to peak in December with record Pacific heat, lasting to February 2027](https://pollar.news/en/event/pacific-el-nino-intensifies): The UN weather body expects record Pacific warmth of 3.7C above normal from October to December. The US Climate Prediction Center puts the o - [Trump rules out Iran attack before US midterms as Brent stays above $100](https://pollar.news/en/event/pentagon-weighs-iran-strikes): Trump said on Thursday the US will not strike Iran before the November 3 elections, while record tanker freight rates and fresh US sanctions - [Italy's lower house passes Meloni's electoral reform 227 to 164, opposition calls it unconstitutional](https://pollar.news/en/event/italy-tables-electoral-confidence-votes): The reform introduces a proportional system with a seat bonus for alliances above 42% of the vote. Centre-left parties say it is meant to ke - [Attacks on Riyadh airport kill three Saudis as Lufthansa and Indian airlines halt flights](https://pollar.news/en/event/houthi-strikes-hit-saudi-airports): Saudi aviation authorities said three Saudi nationals died in two attacks on King Khalid International Airport on Thursday, while Houthi reb - [Canadian poet Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature](https://pollar.news/en/event/anne-carson-wins-nobel): The Swedish Academy named Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson the 2026 laureate on Thursday, citing work that creates new forms for contemp - [Russia ends plague lab contact checks as WHO and Germany press for answers](https://pollar.news/en/event/who-probes-russian-lab-death): Moscow says nearly 5,000 samples showed no dangerous pathogens, but the cause of death of 28-year-old Darya Shipilova remains officially une - [Two Latvian men arrested inside UK base used by US military and NATO intelligence](https://pollar.news/en/event/arrests-at-raf-molesworth): Counter-terror police are investigating after two Latvian men aged 32 and 36 were found inside the perimeter of RAF Molesworth in Cambridges - [ICE agent shoots man in Bronx car with 5-year-old inside, Mamdani demands halt](https://pollar.news/en/event/federal-agents-shoot-man-bronx): An ICE agent shot a Dominican man in Marble Hill, Bronx, on Thursday while a five-year-old child was in the car. New York Mayor Zohran Mamda - [Christa Pike walks with help and eats after surviving Tennessee's failed lethal injection](https://pollar.news/en/event/tennessee-execution-fails): Christa Pike, 50, has begun walking with assistance and eating at a hospital, her lawyers said Thursday, a week after two doses of pentobarb - [Ceferin reverses course and seeks fourth UEFA term to back challenge to Infantino](https://pollar.news/en/event/ceferin-seeks-fourth-uefa-term): UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin will stand at the 51st UEFA Ordinary Congress in Astana on April 22, after his 55 member associations aske - [Margaret Hamilton, whose Apollo 11 software helped land the first crew on the Moon, dies at 90](https://pollar.news/en/event/margaret-hamilton-dies-at-90): Hamilton led the team that wrote the onboard software for NASA's Apollo missions, including Apollo 11's 1969 Moon landing. She died on 30 Se - [Four astronauts land in the Pacific after eight months aboard ISS, delayed three weeks](https://pollar.news/en/event/crew-12-departs-space-station): Sophie Adenot and three crewmates splashed down off California on 8 October after more than 27 hours of return travel. Their homecoming had - [Hurricane Isaias nears US Gulf Coast, with landfall expected Friday night or Saturday](https://pollar.news/en/event/gulf-storm-tracks-north): Hurricane Isaias is forecast to reach the northern Gulf Coast late Friday or early Saturday. Evacuations and emergency declarations have bee - [Poland steps up police patrols at schools after two stabbing attacks](https://pollar.news/en/event/teen-detained-over-przasnysz-threat): Police say 13 incidents raised suspicion of crimes and 10 people have been detained, while no evidence yet supports rumours of a 'Bloody Fri - [Berlin's Left Party agrees antisemitism measures, opening coalition talks with SPD and Greens](https://pollar.news/en/event/berlin-coalition-appeal-launched): The Left Party agreed measures on Thursday to address antisemitic incidents among its lawmakers, a condition set by the SPD and Greens. The - [Three school attacks in Masovia in two days leave a caretaker dead and prompt closures](https://pollar.news/en/event/fatal-polish-school-attack): A 15-year-old former pupil killed a school caretaker in Leszczydół-Nowiny on Thursday, a day after a 19-year-old wounded nine people with a - [Sorkin's The Social Reckoning opens in theaters, dramatising Frances Haugen's Facebook leak](https://pollar.news/en/event/the-social-reckoning-arrives): Jeremy Allen White and Mikey Madison play the Wall Street Journal reporter and Facebook whistle-blower Frances Haugen, whose 2021 leak of in - [Prosecutors seek 12 years for Maradona's doctor Leopoldo Luque over 2020 death](https://pollar.news/en/event/maradona-medics-face-12-years): Prosecutor Patricio Ferrari asked for 12 years in prison for neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, who led the medical team caring for Diego Maradona - [Schröder celebrates Putin's 74th birthday in Moscow, sparking sharp criticism in Germany](https://pollar.news/en/event/schroeder-visits-moscow-supermarket): Putin invited former chancellor Gerhard Schröder to his home after learning he was in Moscow on business for Hyperglobus. German politicians - [Haaland urges Man City to stick together after guilty verdict on financial rules](https://pollar.news/en/event/managers-face-city-verdict-questions): Erling Haaland and Enzo Maresca have urged calm and unity at Manchester City after an independent commission found the club guilty of breach - [US suspends Microsoft and seven firms from green card program over alleged fraud](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-suspends-tech-perm-sponsorships): The suspension covers new and pending PERM applications from eight firms, including Microsoft, Infosys and Adobe, which the administration a - [OpenAI revenue figure falls $20bn short of earlier investor estimate](https://pollar.news/en/event/openai-revenue-below-estimates): OpenAI told investors its annualised revenue stood near $50 billion at the end of September, about $20 billion below the $70 billion figure - [Anthony Vaccarello leaves Saint Laurent after a decade as creative director](https://pollar.news/en/event/vaccarello-leaves-saint-laurent): Kering said on Friday that Saint Laurent's creative director will leave the Parisian house, with a successor to be announced soon. The brand - [Pentagon to livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan on Dec. 3](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-approves-hasan-execution): The Pentagon says the 3 December firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, will be public and - [Granit Xhaka handed suspended 150,000-franc fine over fake Covid-19 certificate](https://pollar.news/en/event/xhaka-receives-two-year-probation): Granit Xhaka's 150,000-franc fine will not be enforced unless he commits a further offence during a two-year probation. He admitted obtainin - [AfD's Tobias Rausch elected Saxony-Anhalt parliament president with 48 of 83 votes](https://pollar.news/en/event/afd-wins-saxony-anhalt-votes): Tobias Rausch of the AfD won the presidency of the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag on Tuesday with four more votes than his party and the BSW hold tog - [Death of evicted 87-year-old Maricarmen fuels Spain's housing protests before 29 November vote](https://pollar.news/en/event/housing-activist-abascal-dies): María del Carmen Abascal, 87, died on Wednesday, two weeks after a Madrid eviction, and protesters are camped in squares and marching across - [Mudslide sweeps cars through Santiago's Las Condes, six injured and district declared disaster zone](https://pollar.news/en/event/santiago-mudslide-injures-six): Heavy rains triggered mudslides in the wealthy Santiago suburb of Las Condes on Thursday, carrying cars through streets and forcing evacuati - [Victor Wembanyama backs French high-school protests, says he would join them](https://pollar.news/en/event/wembanyama-backs-french-students): Speaking after the Spurs' preseason game against the Atlanta Hawks, the French NBA star said he hears the teenagers protesting conditions in - [Spain's new housing decree freezes rents above Serpavi ceiling and caps other rises at 2%](https://pollar.news/en/event/spain-activates-housing-decree): The Housing Ministry has launched an online rent calculator as the decree, in force since Thursday, freezes rents above the Serpavi ceiling - [Kyiv almost entirely in darkness Thursday evening as Ukrainian and Trump envoys prepare to meet](https://pollar.news/en/event/kyiv-plunged-into-darkness): Kyiv was almost entirely in darkness on Thursday evening, and Ukrainian negotiators are scheduled to meet envoys of Donald Trump from Friday - [Kraków votes Sunday in mayoral runoff between Gibała and Piątkowska, without a TV debate](https://pollar.news/en/event/krakow-mayoral-court-battles): Łukasz Gibała and Monika Piątkowska meet in Kraków's runoff on Sunday 11 October after failing to agree on a televised debate. The latest OG - [Drone strikes kill two in Russia's Belgorod region as Kyiv loses power and Poland raises air alerts](https://pollar.news/en/event/poland-issues-border-alerts): Russian regional authorities reported two dead and four injured in Belgorod region on Thursday, while Kyiv halted some public transport afte - [Labour holds Holborn and St Pancras as Green leader Polanski finishes second](https://pollar.news/en/event/holborn-and-st-pancras-vote): Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali won 12,292 votes to Zack Polanski's 8,928 as turnout fell to 38.7%, the lowest for any by-election in England this - [Malaysia closes schools in six places as Indonesian fire haze pushes air quality to unhealthy levels](https://pollar.news/en/event/malaysia-closes-schools-over-haze): More than 2 million students stayed home on Friday as smoke from Indonesian forest fires pushed Kuala Lumpur to around 170 on the Air Pollut - [LeBron James makes 76ers debut, scores 10 points in 114-108 pre-season loss to Nets](https://pollar.news/en/event/lebrons-76ers-debut-ends-in-loss): James played 18 first-half minutes and scored 10 points, while Jaylen Brown led all scorers with 18 and Brooklyn outscored Philadelphia 37-2 - [Eritrean troops reported inside Ethiopia's Tigray as drones strike them near Adigrat](https://pollar.news/en/event/eritrean-troops-hit-by-drones): Drone strikes believed to be Ethiopian targeted Eritrean military vehicles near Adigrat as they pulled back from Tigray, a conflict monitor - [Navi Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for work on international law](https://pollar.news/en/event/pillay-earns-nobel-peace): The 85-year-old former UN rights official was named laureate in Oslo on Friday, 9 October, and will receive 12 million Swedish kronor ($1.2 - [Sejm committee backs sending NBP governor Glapiński before State Tribunal](https://pollar.news/en/event/glapinski-faces-friday-committee-vote): The Sejm's Constitutional Responsibility Committee adopted a report on Friday recommending that NBP president Adam Glapiński be brought befo - [Flavio Bolsonaro gains Augusto Cury endorsement ahead of October 25 Brazil runoff](https://pollar.news/en/event/bolsonaro-leads-brazil-vote): Augusto Cury, who finished third in Sunday's first round, endorsed Flavio Bolsonaro on Thursday. The right-wing senator now faces Lula da Si - [US adds torture conspiracy charges against Maduro and Cilia Flores](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-charges-maduro-over-torture): US prosecutors charged Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores with conspiracy to commit torture on Thursday, while a federal judge refused - [Russian strike on Kramatorsk bus kills 30 to 33 as Kyiv faces emergency power cuts](https://pollar.news/en/event/zelenskyy-warns-of-russian-strike): Russian forces also hit a residential building in Pryluky, where the death toll reached 22, while Ukrenergo ordered emergency power outages - [Judge Pedraz declines for now to charge Spain's PSOE in the Leire Díez case](https://pollar.news/en/event/pp-seeks-psoe-indictment): Pedraz said the case still lacks a 'principio de prueba' linking the party to the alleged plot, a view that matches the prosecutors' positio - [Mourinho calls criticism of Mbappé ridiculous, says booing would be a win for the press](https://pollar.news/en/event/mourinho-defends-mbappe): Real Madrid coach José Mourinho dismissed the criticism of Kylian Mbappé as ridiculous on Friday, the day before the Villarreal match at the - [Nawrocki stays most trusted politician in CBOS survey as Braun ranks least trusted](https://pollar.news/en/event/nawrocki-tops-trust-ranking): President Karol Nawrocki holds first place with 53% trust in the September CBOS survey, while 51% distrust Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a ris - [Suspect arrested after two Neumarkt district office employees shot dead in Bavaria](https://pollar.news/en/event/deadly-shooting-in-berngau): A 60-year-old gun owner shot dead two employees of the Neumarkt district office during a routine weapons check in Berngau on Thursday. He wa - [Cornell gang rape lawsuit sparks New York protests and threats against Jane Doe](https://pollar.news/en/event/cornell-protests-over-assault-case): Several hundred people rallied outside a Manhattan courthouse on Thursday as the woman suing seven Chi Phi members over an alleged 2024 gang ## Search and discovery - [Search](https://pollar.news/en/search): full-text + semantic search across all events - [Sitemap](https://pollar.news/sitemap.xml): every public URL across the four locales - [News sitemap](https://pollar.news/sitemap-news.xml): Google News feed, last 48h of events - [Full content dump](https://pollar.news/llms-full.txt): all current event summaries + thread state-of-play in one markdown file (preferred when you want pollar context in a single fetch) ## About + policies - [What is Pollar](https://pollar.news/en/about): the service in plain terms — free, four languages, reader-funded, no ads, self-hosted cookieless analytics, every article lists its sources - [Pollar News iOS app](https://pollar.news/en/app): the free iPhone app — brief, live coverage with Lock Screen Live Activities, offline reading - [Pollar vs other news apps](https://pollar.news/en/compare): factual comparisons with Apple News, Google News and Kagi News - [Editorial team](https://pollar.news/en/about/editorial): the humans behind Pollar Editorial - [Editorial standards](https://pollar.news/en/editorial-standards): sourcing, AI assistance, independence, advertising and partnerships, diversity of coverage - [Corrections policy](https://pollar.news/en/corrections): how mistakes are corrected - [AI policy](https://pollar.news/en/ai-policy): which models, what's automated, what's edited - [Privacy](https://pollar.news/en/privacy)