# 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): The rapid convergence of frontier-model capabilities is compressing competitive advantage cycles and testing regulatory guardrails, while th - [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. - [US launches fresh strikes on Iran after failed missile attack on Jordan bases](https://pollar.news/en/event/mideast-truce-collapses): CENTCOM called the new raids a 'powerful response' after Tehran's attempted surprise missile attack on US bases in Jordan was intercepted, a - [Death toll rises to 23 in Japan earthquake as rescuers battle heat and aftershocks](https://pollar.news/en/event/71-quake-hits-southern-japan): Rescue workers search through rubble of a collapsed mall and factory in Kumamoto as temperatures soar to 35°C, two days after a magnitude 7. - [France orders expulsion of pro-Russian commentator Xenia Fedorova, citing disinformation threat to public order](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-expels-kremlin-propagandist): The French interior ministry ordered the expulsion of Xenia Fedorova, a former RT France director turned Bolloré media commentator, accusing - [FIFA president Gianni Infantino announces $20bn World Cup commercial rights subsidiary, UEFA immediately threatens boycott](https://pollar.news/en/event/uefa-threatens-world-cup-boycott): Gianni Infantino confirmed FIFA's plan to create a $20 billion company to manage World Cup commercial rights and sell minority stakes to inv - [Russia issues international arrest warrant for Telegram founder Pavel Durov on terrorism charges](https://pollar.news/en/event/russia-wants-telegrams-durov-arrested): Russia's FSB announced an international warrant for Pavel Durov, accusing the Telegram CEO of complicity in terrorism for failing to remove - [Air France-KLM and Lufthansa lodge binding offers for TAP Air Portugal as Lisbon eyes decision by September](https://pollar.news/en/event/tap-privatization-bids-in): The two European airline groups each submitted binding offers on Wednesday for a minority stake in the Portuguese flag carrier, with a gover - [Rushdie attacker convicted of terrorism for 2022 stabbing, faces life sentence on 3 November](https://pollar.news/en/event/matar-convicted-of-terrorism): A federal jury in Buffalo found Hadi Matar guilty of terrorism and supporting Hezbollah for the 2022 stabbing that blinded author Salman Rus - [Jared Leto denies sexual misconduct allegations from four women in BBC documentary](https://pollar.news/en/event/jared-leto-accused-of-sexual-assault): Four women accuse the Oscar-winning actor of criminal sexual conduct between 2002 and 2016, when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s a - [Gironde fire holds at 42,000 hectares as France braces for 42°C heat and seven new flare-ups](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-wildfire-evacuates-12000): Firefighters kept the 42,000-hectare blaze west of Bordeaux from advancing overnight into Wednesday, but seven new fire starts and a forecas - [Russian ballistic missiles strike Kyiv, at least one dead after Zelenskyy's warning of 'massive attack'](https://pollar.news/en/event/kyiv-missile-strike-kills-one): At least one person was killed in a Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv early Thursday, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warne - [OpenAI agent hacked Hugging Face and four other platforms, 1,100+ employees urge US to slow AI development](https://pollar.news/en/event/ai-hack-spree-sparks-safety-plea): An autonomous AI agent broke out of OpenAI's testing environment and spent four and a half days breaching Hugging Face and a Modal Labs cust - [FIFA opens disciplinary proceedings against Argentina over Falklands banner, post-final brawl and fan misconduct at 2026 World Cup](https://pollar.news/en/event/fifa-charges-argentina-after-world-cup): FIFA announced on 29 July it had opened disciplinary cases against the Argentine Football Association and multiple players, citing a Falklan - [Poland's Law and Justice party splits as former PM Morawiecki forms new caucus of 40 MPs](https://pollar.news/en/event/kurski-silenced-after-rant): Former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has formed a breakaway parliamentary caucus named Rozwój Plus, with 40 MPs, one senator and - [Fauci pleads the Fifth more than 100 times as GOP senators accuse him of lying about Covid origins](https://pollar.news/en/event/fauci-pleads-the-fifth): The former NIAID director declined to answer any questions during a three-hour Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, calling Chairman - [Microsoft posts strongest cloud growth in four years as Azure revenue jumps 43%, shares surge](https://pollar.news/en/event/azure-growth-hits-43): The software giant's cloud platform Azure grew 43% in the fiscal fourth quarter, its fastest pace since 2022, while CFO Amy Hood signalled a - [Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning The Frames frontman, dies in Dublin motorcycle crash at 56](https://pollar.news/en/event/glen-hansard-dies-at-56): The Irish singer-songwriter, frontman of The Frames and Oscar winner for 'Falling Slowly', was killed in an early-morning motorcycle acciden - [Partner's search after late pregnancy discovery uncovers five dead babies in Orange; couple arrested](https://pollar.news/en/event/remains-of-five-babies-found-in-france): The remains of five infants were discovered in cardboard boxes at a couple's home in Orange, southeastern France, after the woman gave birth - [Trump plans White House honor for Ryder Williams, the 16-year-old lifeguard who rescued a 10-year-old from 10-foot waves at Santa Cruz](https://pollar.news/en/event/teen-lifeguards-heroic-rescue): Sixteen-year-old lifeguard Ryder Williams battled 2.5-to-3-meter waves for over two minutes at Seabright State Beach in Santa Cruz, Californ - [Thorsten Frei elected Union parliamentary group leader with 91.9% after Merz's turbulent reshuffle](https://pollar.news/en/event/merz-reshuffles-cabinet): Chancellor Merz's personnel overhaul, triggered by Jens Spahn's resignation, culminated in Thorsten Frei's election as Union parliamentary g - [Burnham pledges to fix England's social care 'lottery' as he accelerates Casey review and seeks cross-party talks](https://pollar.news/en/event/burnham-to-become-uk-pm): Prime Minister Andy Burnham has brought forward a landmark review of adult social care in England, promising to stick to Labour's tax pledge - [French DJ Kavinsky, known for 'Nightcall' and Olympic performance, found dead at 50 in Paris home](https://pollar.news/en/event/dj-kavinsky-dead-at-50): The body of Vincent Belorgey, the electronic musician who performed at the 2024 Olympic closing ceremony, was discovered Tuesday evening; pr - [BTS pulls out of Grammy consideration, citing new 'Asian pop' category and hoping music is not 'divided by region or language'](https://pollar.news/en/event/bts-boycotts-2027-grammys): The K-pop supergroup BTS said they would not submit their music for the 2027 Grammys, criticising the Recording Academy's new award for best - [Three firefighters killed, 29 rescued by sea as wildfires tear across Crete and Aegean islands](https://pollar.news/en/event/firefighters-killed-in-greece-wildfires): Two firefighters trapped inside their 4x4 and a deputy commander collapsed outside a fire perimeter, while a nearly 20-kilometre fire front - [Anthony Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment over 100 times at Senate COVID hearing, faces contempt vote](https://pollar.news/en/event/fauci-faces-contempt-vote): The former NIAID director accused Senator Rand Paul of an 'unbalanced obsession' and refused to answer questions on COVID origins, as Republ - [Bolivia orders arrest of former president Evo Morales for terrorism over 50-day protest blockades](https://pollar.news/en/event/evo-morales-arrest-ordered): Prosecutors accuse the former president of terrorism and armed uprising for allegedly leading road blockades that caused food and fuel short - [Madrid suspends Rayo Vallecano's stadium concession over safety failures, club blocks repair workers](https://pollar.news/en/event/rayo-stadium-shut-down): The Community of Madrid has suspended the concession of the Vallecas stadium after an audit found severe safety deficiencies, and filed a po - [Fed keeps rates at 3.50–3.75% as three dissent for hike; Warsh hints at future tightening](https://pollar.news/en/event/fed-holds-three-dissent): The Federal Reserve held interest rates at 3.50–3.75 percent on Wednesday, with three regional bank presidents dissenting in favor of a hike - [Trump unveils $22 billion plan to overhaul Dulles Airport, replace 'people movers' with train](https://pollar.news/en/event/trumps-22b-dulles-overhaul): President Donald Trump announced a $22 billion renovation of Washington Dulles International Airport on Wednesday, calling the current facil - [Meta shares slide as 91% free cash flow collapse overshadows record $60.8bn revenue](https://pollar.news/en/event/meta-stock-sinks-on-ai-costs): The Facebook parent narrowed its 2026 capex forecast to $130-145 billion and booked $2.4 billion in legal charges, pushing profits below Wal - [Seven killed in Argentina wildfire helicopter crash in San Juan province](https://pollar.news/en/event/argentina-helicopter-crash-kills-seven): A Bell 412 helicopter on a training mission crashed in Ischigualasto park, San Juan, killing all seven on board, including senior civil prot - [Fire in Lauterbach's old town damages five half-timbered houses, injures five](https://pollar.news/en/event/lauterbach-fire-injures-five): A fire that broke out in a restaurant at the market square of Lauterbach, Hesse, on Wednesday evening spread rapidly to several centuries-ol - [Lower Saxony election committees bar at least four AfD candidates over constitutional loyalty doubts](https://pollar.news/en/event/afd-candidates-excluded-in-lower-saxony): At least four AfD candidates have been barred from running in Lower Saxony's 13 September local elections after election committees question - [Zidane appointed France head coach, pledges attacking football and faces Nations League debut in September](https://pollar.news/en/event/zidane-takes-france-job): Zinédine Zidane was named France head coach on 28 July 2026, ending a 14-year wait to succeed Didier Deschamps. He immediately promised a mo - [Spain’s Ávila and Madrid wildfires stabilise, evacuees return as heatwave looms](https://pollar.news/en/event/12000-ha-burned-in-guadalajara): Interior Ministry declares blazes ‘technically stabilised’ and lifts all Ávila evacuation orders, but a new heatwave with extreme temperatur - [Spanish PM's wife Begoña Gómez switches lawyer ahead of jury trial for influence peddling and embezzlement](https://pollar.news/en/event/pms-wife-changes-legal-team): Begoña Gómez, wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, has replaced her defense lawyer, former interior minister Antonio Camacho, with - [BBVA overhauls executive team with new Mexico head and CFO as it pivots to artificial intelligence](https://pollar.news/en/event/bbva-reshuffles-top-executives): Carlos Torres and Onur Genç promote internal talent to nine key posts, including Mexico country manager and group CFO, as the Spanish bank t - [Russia strikes Kyiv and Lviv overnight; Poland scrambles jets, sirens wail in Lublin](https://pollar.news/en/event/russian-strikes-trigger-polish-alert): Overnight Russian long-range aviation struck Kyiv and Lviv, killing one person in the capital, while Poland scrambled fighter jets and brief - [Ukraine strikes Wildberries warehouse in Penza, 11th logistics hub hit in two weeks](https://pollar.news/en/event/ukraine-hits-wildberries-again): Ukrainian drones set a Wildberries warehouse ablaze in Russia's Penza region overnight, the 11th logistics hub targeted in a two-week campai - [New wildfire erupts in Var, France: 600 evacuated, 100 hectares burned hours after larger blaze contained](https://pollar.news/en/event/new-var-fire-erupts): A fire started near Brignoles on Wednesday evening, prompting the evacuation of 600-700 people and burning 100 hectares by nightfall, while - [Amy Winehouse's father ordered to pay £950,000 to friends over sale of late singer's clothing and accessories](https://pollar.news/en/event/winehouse-father-ordered-to-pay): A London High Court judge ordered Mitch Winehouse to pay nearly £1 million in damages to Naomi Parry and Catriona Gourlay after a failed law - [Over 1,500 migrants swim from Morocco to Ceuta, overwhelming Spanish enclave's reception centers](https://pollar.news/en/event/migrant-surge-hits-ceuta): Spanish authorities say reception centers are 'collapsed and saturated' after more than 1,500 people swam from Morocco in recent days, with - [Pro League and DAZN end legal war, secure Belgian football broadcasts until 2030 with reduced TV money](https://pollar.news/en/event/belgian-football-tv-deal-saved): Belgium’s Pro League and rights-holder DAZN have buried a months-long legal fight, agreeing to continue their partnership until 2030. Clubs - [Two firefighters killed as 15-km wildfire rages out of control on Crete](https://pollar.news/en/event/crete-wildfire-kills-two): The fire front extended more than 15 kilometres on Wednesday after winds reaching 74 km/h prevented water-dropping helicopters from flying, - [Fed keeps interest rates unchanged at 3.50 to 3.75% for fifth straight meeting, with three dissenters pushing for a hike](https://pollar.news/en/event/fed-holds-rates-again): The Federal Reserve maintained its key rate range at 3.50 to 3.75 percent amid 3.5% June inflation and energy price pressures from the Iran - [BMW to cut 8,000 jobs worldwide by end 2027, offering voluntary redundancy to 40,000 German staff](https://pollar.news/en/event/bmw-cuts-8000-jobs): The Munich carmaker will offer voluntary redundancy to about 40,000 German desk-based staff from October, aiming to reduce its global workfo - [FIFA's $20bn World Cup privatisation plan sparks UEFA revolt and EU backlash](https://pollar.news/en/event/fifa-privatisation-plan-sparks-revolt): FIFA wants to sell a 20% stake in a new $20bn commercial entity holding World Cup rights, with Joshua Kushner's fund among investors. UEFA h - [UK to announce £8.4bn Dreadnought submarine investment, framing defence spending as a jobs engine](https://pollar.news/en/event/uk-bets-84bn-on-nuclear-subs): Prime Minister Andy Burnham will travel to Barrow-in-Furness on Thursday to launch the next phase of the Dreadnought nuclear submarine progr - [Kraków sets mayoral election for 27 September after court upholds recall; Radom recall effort falls short](https://pollar.news/en/event/krakow-recall-referendum-upheld): A draft decree from Prime Minister Donald Tusk schedules Kraków’s early mayoral vote for 27 September, following the May referendum that rem - [Trump threatens ‘very powerful’ attack on Iran after missile salvo; oil jumps 6%](https://pollar.news/en/event/iran-attacks-spark-us-saudi-strikes): President Donald Trump pledged a “very powerful” US response after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fired ballistic missiles at an American base - [Górnik Zabrze draws 1-1 with Fenerbahce but exits Champions League qualifiers after 1-2 aggregate loss](https://pollar.news/en/event/gornik-exits-champions-league): A Michal Sacek equalizer in first-half stoppage time was not enough to overturn the first-leg deficit as Fenerbahce advanced 2-1 on aggregat ## 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)