# 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 economic competitiveness is under pressure from low productivity, weak investment, demographic decline, and the cost of the green t - [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): Models are learning faster than the institutions behind them can adapt, with this thread tracking frontier-model capability jumps, the AI Ac - [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 in Ukraine has entered a new phase defined by a rapid technological competition and a more mature Ukrainian strike doctrine, challen - [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. - [ICE agent fatally shoots 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine, the second deadly federal immigration shooting in a week](https://pollar.news/en/event/ice-kills-one-in-maine): A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday, July 13, 2026 - [Nine European nations and Ukraine form coalition to build integrated ballistic missile shield](https://pollar.news/en/event/european-missile-shield-coalition): Meeting at a summit of Kyiv's allies in Paris, ten nations announced a coalition to pool industrial and operational resources for a shared E - [Hungary's parliament votes 139-6 to amend constitution and oust President Sulyok, whom PM Magyar calls Orbán's 'puppet'](https://pollar.news/en/event/sulyok-ousted-by-magyar): The Hungarian National Assembly passed a constitutional amendment on Monday with 139 votes in favour and 6 against, targeting President Tamá - [Brazil's top court bars candidate Flávio Bolsonaro from visiting his jailed father for 90 days after social media letter](https://pollar.news/en/event/visitation-ban-hits-bolsonaro-campaign): Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes suspended visits after Senator Flávio Bolsonaro read his father's letter online, breaching house a - [US judge voids Trump's $1.8bn IRS settlement and tax audit immunity, citing self-dealing](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-irs-deal-voided): A federal judge in Florida ruled that the $1.8bn settlement between President Trump and his own justice department was collusive, voiding th - [Sam Neill, 'Jurassic Park' star and one of New Zealand's greats, dies suddenly at 78](https://pollar.news/en/event/sam-neill-dies-at-78): The Northern Ireland-born New Zealand actor died in Sydney, Australia, on Monday 13 July 2026, with his family saying the loss was 'sudden a - [Israel secretly courted ex-President Ahmadinejad to lead a post-ayatollah Iran, using Budapest climate conference as a front](https://pollar.news/en/event/ahmadinejads-secret-mossad-ties): A years-long Israeli intelligence effort to turn Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into a post-regime Iranian leader involved secret meetings in Budapest, - [Dutch referee Rob Dieperink found dead at 38 after World Cup removal over dropped sexual assault case](https://pollar.news/en/event/rob-dieperink-dies-at-38): The body of Dutch football referee Rob Dieperink was discovered at his home in Borculo, weeks after FIFA excluded him from the 2026 World Cu - [Rubio vows to 'dismantle the ICC brick by brick' as US launches whole-of-government campaign against the Hague court](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-moves-against-icc): Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a State Department campaign on Monday, 13 July 2026, aiming to 'systematically disable' the Interna - [Luis Goytisolo, Spanish novelist and member of the Royal Spanish Academy, dies at 91](https://pollar.news/en/event/luis-goytisolo-dies-at-91): The Barcelona-born writer died on 12 July in Vimbodí, Tarragona. A member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 1995, he was the last of the Go - [Yemen's Houthis fire ballistic missiles at Saudi Arabia after government bombs Sanaa airport to block Iranian plane](https://pollar.news/en/event/yemen-strikes-sanaa-airport): Yemen's Houthi rebels launched ballistic missiles at southern Saudi Arabia on Monday, hours after the internationally recognised Yemeni gove - [12 Democratic states sue to block Paramount's $111bn Warner Bros Discovery acquisition](https://pollar.news/en/event/states-sue-to-block-paramount-wbd-deal): Attorneys general from California, New York and 10 other states filed an antitrust lawsuit on Monday, challenging the deal already approved - [Ukraine to buy 16 Rafale jets and produce missiles under licence after Paris coalition talks](https://pollar.news/en/event/ukraine-buys-16-rafale-jets): France and Ukraine concluded an agreement for 16 Rafale fighter jets and licensed production of missiles at the Willing Coalition summit in - [France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK summon Russian envoys over an FSB-orchestrated cyber sabotage campaign spanning a dozen European nations](https://pollar.news/en/event/eu-sanctions-russian-cyber-spies): Paris, Berlin, The Hague and London will all call in Russia's ambassadors after EU and UK intelligence linked Moscow's FSB to hacks on gover - [Two Romanian climbers die after falling into a 20-metre crevasse on Gran Paradiso](https://pollar.news/en/event/gran-paradiso-crevasse-kills-two): The bodies of two Romanian climbers were recovered Monday morning from a crevasse on the Gran Paradiso massif in the Italian Alps, ending a - [Jay-Z's Yankee Stadium finale delayed three hours after gatecrashers storm entrances, then delivers Beyoncé, Rihanna and Usher in marathon set](https://pollar.news/en/event/jay-z-finale-delayed-then-electrifies): A trio of sold-out anniversary shows at Yankee Stadium ran into chaos Sunday night when hundreds of unticketed gatecrashers breached entranc - [Tom Cruise goes under heavy prosthetics for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Digger as a corrupt oil tycoon in eco-satire](https://pollar.news/en/event/cruises-digger-transformation-shocks): The first full trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's dark comedy shows Cruise hidden under layers of prosthetics, a pot belly, and a Southern - [Macron rallies 37-nation Ukraine coalition in Paris: 16 Rafale jets pledged, UK joins EU loan](https://pollar.news/en/event/ukraine-coalition-secures-new-aid): At Les Invalides in Paris, President Macron received leaders from the 'coalition of volunteers' and announced the delivery of 16 Rafale figh - [UK arrests 12 in far-right terror plot targeting Suffolk Muslim gathering; event evacuated early](https://pollar.news/en/event/far-right-plot-foiled-uk): Counter-terrorism police detained eleven men and one woman across England after intelligence emerged of a planned attack on the UK Ijtima fe - [Fallen power cable sparks deadly Spain wildfire, killing at least 13; Sánchez urges prevention culture](https://pollar.news/en/event/thirteen-dead-in-spain-wildfire): At least 13 people have died, including four Britons and a French national, after a wildfire sparked by a fallen power line tore through Alm - [France's ODM trio of Olise, Dembélé and Mbappé head into Spain semi-final as World Cup's most feared attack](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-vs-spain-semi-final-looms): France meets Spain in a World Cup semi-final in Dallas on 14 July 2026, with the ODM attack (Olise, Dembélé, Mbappé) having scored 16 goals - [EU experts recommend restricting social media for children under 13, propose tiered access model](https://pollar.news/en/event/eu-social-media-age-report-due): EU Commission experts advocate an EU-wide restriction on social media access for minors under 13, with under-threes facing a total screen ba - [Macron in final Bastille Day address: Europe ready to defend freedom 'at the cost of blood if necessary'](https://pollar.news/en/event/macrons-final-military-address): In his last annual address to the French military on 13 July 2026, President Emmanuel Macron declared that Europe was ready to fight for its - [Slaven Bilic returns as Croatia head coach after 14 years, replacing Zlatko Dalic following World Cup exit](https://pollar.news/en/event/bilic-back-as-croatia-boss): The Croatian Football Federation (HNS) confirmed the appointment on Monday, replacing Zlatko Dalic who resigned after a last-32 defeat to Po - [Bull bison throws 65-year-old grandfather into the air at Yellowstone campground, leaving him with severe injuries](https://pollar.news/en/event/bison-attacks-tourist-at-yellowstone): Carl McDaniel, 65, was struck by a 900kg bull bison and thrown eight feet into the air at Bridge Bay Campground on Friday evening. He remain - [Berlin's CDU picks Finance Senator Stefan Evers as lead candidate after Wegner steps back](https://pollar.news/en/event/evers-leads-berlin-cdu): The Berlin CDU state executive unanimously elected Finance Senator Stefan Evers as its lead candidate for the 20 September Abgeordnetenhaus - [Ten European nations form anti-ballistic missile coalition in Paris, Poland notably absent from founding group](https://pollar.news/en/event/anti-ballistic-coalition-formed): The Anti-Ballistic Missile Coalition was inaugurated on 13 July 2026 in Paris by ten countries, including Ukraine, to jointly develop defenc - [Italy heat wave threatens Parmesan: milk output down 10%, energy costs up 30% in storage](https://pollar.news/en/event/heat-wave-threatens-parmesan): Northern Italy’s record heat is squeezing Parmigiano Reggiano production: cows give up to 10% less milk and storerooms consume 30% more ener - [Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard found guilty of 1990s sexual assault in Montreal, adding to 11-year sentence](https://pollar.news/en/event/peter-nygard-convicted-again): The 84-year-old former fashion executive, already serving 11 years for Toronto assaults, chose not to contest evidence from a 1997–1998 inci - [Spain's tax competitiveness slides to 34th in OECD as fiscal pressure runs 17% above EU average, business lobby warns](https://pollar.news/en/event/spain-fiscal-gap-widens): The IEE report, anchored on Tax Foundation data, finds Spain dropped five places since 2018 and now scores 57.9 out of 100, while household - [Spanish court upholds arrest warrant for ETA fugitive found alive in Venezuela earthquake rubble](https://pollar.news/en/event/eta-fugitive-found-in-earthquake): Luis María Olalde, alias 'Txistu', a former ETA member wanted for a 1979 attack that killed two Spanish Civil Guards, was rescued from the d - [Sales of Homer's epics jump 400% in Greece ahead of Christopher Nolan's 'Odyssey' premiere on July 17](https://pollar.news/en/event/nolan-fuels-homer-sales-boom): Greek publishers report demand for 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad' has quadrupled as the July 17 premiere of Christopher Nolan's film adaptati - [EU split over Israeli settlement trade ban as foreign ministers fail to reach majority for action](https://pollar.news/en/event/germany-halts-eu-settlement-ban): A proposal to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank won the most support among EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Mo - [UK designates Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organisation under fast-tracked state-threats powers](https://pollar.news/en/event/uk-proscribes-irans-irgc): Keir Starmer’s government, in its final week in office, used newly fast-tracked legislation to proscribe Iran’s IRGC, the IMCR militant netw - [ONCE, La Primitiva, Eurodreams and Bonoloto set for Monday night draws with prizes up to 7.2 million euros](https://pollar.news/en/event/spanish-monday-lottery): The ONCE daily cupon, La Primitiva, Eurodreams and Bonoloto all hold their scheduled draws on Monday evening, offering cumulative prizes ran - [Warsaw court refuses European Arrest Warrant for Zbigniew Ziobro, saying prosecution failed to show he is in the EU](https://pollar.news/en/event/ziobro-arrest-warrant-refused): The Warsaw Regional Court on Monday rejected the prosecution’s request for a European Arrest Warrant against Zbigniew Ziobro, ruling there w - [Catalonia plans to slash building permit wait from 12 months to one in sweeping urban reform](https://pollar.news/en/event/catalonia-targets-one-month-permits): President Salvador Illa presented the draft law at Barcelona's Ebro factory on Monday, framing the changes as 'good politics' that will spee - [Portugal exam digitisation errors force repeat grading; minister apologises, 92% corrected](https://pollar.news/en/event/portugal-exam-scanning-crisis): Digitisation glitches in Portugal's secondary school exams forced teachers to re-grade thousands of papers; the education minister says 92% - [ICE agents kill Colombian man in Maine, the second federal immigration fatality in under a week](https://pollar.news/en/event/maine-ice-shooting-kills-man): A 26-year-old Colombian national authorized to work in the United States was shot dead by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Bidd - [Judge Peinado gives Begoña Gómez five days to prove she used her passport only for her daughter's London graduation](https://pollar.news/en/event/gomez-must-prove-london-trip): The investigating magistrate in Madrid has ordered the wife of Spain's prime minister to provide evidence that she did not breach a travel b - [Aurora Tila's ex-boyfriend confesses in appeal: 'I threw her from the balcony'. Court adjourns to 10 September](https://pollar.news/en/event/killer-confesses-in-aurora-tila-appeal): On 13 July 2026, the ex-boyfriend of Aurora Tila, now almost 17, confessed in Bologna's Court of Appeal to throwing the 13-year-old from a s - [EU and NATO sanction Russia over cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure in Poland and Europe](https://pollar.news/en/event/eu-sanctions-russia-over-cyberattacks): The European Union imposed sanctions on nine individuals and four entities linked to Russian cyber operations, with NATO and the UK issuing - [Spanish-led team detects sugar in interstellar space for the first time, revealing ingredients for life form before stars exist](https://pollar.news/en/event/sugar-discovered-in-deep-space): Using two radio telescopes in Spain, astronomers have identified erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar found in raspberries, inside a molecular c - [Minute of silence before France v Spain World Cup semi-final to mark 10th anniversary of Nice attack](https://pollar.news/en/event/silence-before-france-spain): President Macron announced that a minute of silence will be observed before Tuesday's World Cup semi-final between France and Spain, honorin - [France and Spain meet in Dallas semi-final with Yamal and Mbappé at the heart of a clash rich in history](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-spain-world-cup-clash): The two European giants face off at Dallas Stadium on Tuesday with a World Cup final place at stake, as Lamine Yamal, now 19, seeks a repeat - [Fontainebleau forest fire near Paris may be arson, nearly 1,000 hectares burned](https://pollar.news/en/event/paris-wildfires-halt-traffic): Firefighters deployed on an exceptional scale for the Paris region are battling a blaze that started Sunday and had consumed up to 1,000 hec - [Car crashes into women's clothing store in Vrilissia after driver confuses reverse with forward gear](https://pollar.news/en/event/suv-ploughs-into-greek-boutique): An automatic SUV smashed through the glass front of a women's clothing store on Pentelis Street in Vrilissia on Monday, 13 July 2026, after - [ESA picks Warsaw for first centre beyond founding members, Poland doubles space spending](https://pollar.news/en/event/esa-centre-in-warsaw): The European Space Agency will open its first facility outside the 1975 founding nations in Warsaw, with a focus on dual-use tech and crisis - [Poland arrests man who verbally assaulted Ukrainian girls on bus; Kyiv urges politicians to stop fuelling anti-Ukrainian hatred](https://pollar.news/en/event/driver-attacks-ukrainian-children-on-bus): Police in Bielsko-Biała arrested a man on Monday after he shouted abuse at three Ukrainian girls on a city bus. Ukraine’s foreign minister w - [EU imports record 9.97 million tonnes of Russian LNG from Yamal plant ahead of 2027 ban](https://pollar.news/en/event/record-eu-russian-lng-buys): European Union countries imported 136 cargoes from Russia's Yamal LNG facility in the first half of 2026, a 16% volume increase over the sam ## 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, 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)