# 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 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-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 legal countermea - [The war in Ukraine and its limits](https://pollar.news/en/threads/ukraine-war): The war is defined by reciprocal long-range strikes on economic infrastructure, with Ukraine scaling its drone campaign toward 1,000 daily s - [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. - [Gloria Steinem, American feminist organizer and Ms. magazine co-founder, dies at 92 in New York](https://pollar.news/en/event/gloria-steinem-dies-at-92): The feminist leader, investigative journalist, and author died on 2 September 2026 at her home in Manhattan, concluding over six decades of - [Nvidia acquires open AI platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion](https://pollar.news/en/event/nvidia-eyes-hugging-face): Nvidia agreed to acquire open-source developer repository Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, paying $11.9 billion to investors alongside $1 bi - [Jakob Omrzel wins Vuelta stage 12 as Enric Mas extends overall lead by 27 seconds](https://pollar.news/en/event/omrzel-wins-vuelta-stage-12): Twenty-year-old Slovenian Jakob Omrzel took a solo victory on the Calar Alto summit, while red jersey holder Enric Mas gained 27 seconds on - [US judge blocks Donald Trump's revised executive order restricting birthright citizenship](https://pollar.news/en/event/judge-blocks-citizenship-order): US District Judge Deborah Boardman granted a preliminary injunction barring federal agencies from enforcing Donald Trump's August executive - [NBA fines Clippers $30M, strips five draft picks and suspends Steve Ballmer over Kawhi Leonard payments](https://pollar.news/en/event/clippers-hit-with-sanctions): The NBA disciplined the Los Angeles Clippers on 2 September 2026 after a probe found the team funneled $28 million to Kawhi Leonard through - [Polish prosecutors charge three in Zondacrypto probe and request arrests over fraud and founder disappearance](https://pollar.news/en/event/zondacrypto-head-turns-witness): Polish prosecutors filed charges on 3 September 2026 against three suspects, including investor Rafał Z., over the financial collapse of Zon - [Germany blames Russia for Leipzig airport drone plot and closes consulate as Moscow retaliates](https://pollar.news/en/event/drones-found-near-leipzig): Berlin has shuttered a Russian consulate and cultural center following an attempted August drone sabotage at Leipzig/Halle Airport, promptin - [Danish intelligence reveals Russian sabotage plots targeting defense industry](https://pollar.news/en/event/russian-sabotage-plans-in-denmark): Counterintelligence officials in Copenhagen say Russian operatives are preparing arson and recruiting Danish citizens online to disrupt mili - [Leon Black sues US House committee to block Epstein subpoenas after skipping deposition](https://pollar.news/en/event/leon-black-sues-house-panel): Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black filed a federal lawsuit against the US House Oversight Committee on Thursday, refusing to att - [Polish President Karol Nawrocki agrees to prosecutor questioning over stalled court appointments](https://pollar.news/en/event/nawrocki-to-face-questioning): The National Prosecutor's Office asked Karol Nawrocki to designate a time and venue to give witness testimony regarding his refusal to swear - [Two Bulgarian suspects arrested after arson attack on Rohde & Schwarz site in Munich](https://pollar.news/en/event/munich-defense-contractor-arson-attack): Police in Munich arrested two Bulgarian nationals after incendiary devices were thrown from a vehicle at a construction site outside the hea - [Uber and Wayve launch London robotaxi service with 15 supervised electric vehicles](https://pollar.news/en/event/uber-robotaxis-launch-in-london): Passengers across London can now book autonomous rides in Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles equipped with Wayve software, operating under rules r - [Pedro Sánchez defends Ceuta border actions and sovereignty in Spanish parliament address](https://pollar.news/en/event/ceuta-migration-crisis-escalates): Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez addressed the Congress of Deputies on Thursday to defend border officers who allowed migrants to enter - [US and Iran trade strikes across Gulf after deadly Kuhestak wedding bombing](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-iran-strike-trade): American forces struck military targets across southern Iran, hitting a wedding ceremony in Kuhestak, prompting Iranian missile barrages aga - [Rome military prosecutors probe soldiers in Roberto Vannacci's far-right party](https://pollar.news/en/event/vannacci-party-faces-probe): The Rome Military Prosecutor's Office opened preliminary checks on 3 September 2026 into armed forces personnel joining Roberto Vannacci's F - [Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US and Canada to London](https://pollar.news/en/event/dutch-gold-shifts-to-london): De Nederlandsche Bank relocated 86 metric tons of gold reserves from North America to the Bank of England to improve crisis readiness and ma - [German authorities record 165 sabotage cases following power grid attacks in two states](https://pollar.news/en/event/explosives-found-at-substation): Federal and state investigators are treating projectile strikes on electrical substations in Brandenburg and North Rhine-Westphalia as anti- - [PKP Intercity train collides with truck in Gdansk, disrupting rail routes across northern Poland](https://pollar.news/en/event/train-hits-truck-in-gdansk): A PKP Intercity train carrying up to 300 passengers collided with a truck at a level crossing on Niegowska Street in Gdansk on Thursday, hal - [Spanish judiciary rejects interior minister's complaint over Ceuta police gag order](https://pollar.news/en/event/spanish-judges-back-ceuta-probe): Supreme Court President Isabel Perelló defended Judge María Tardón's order barring police from sharing Ceuta migration inquiry files with po - [Maltese jury acquits businessman Yorgen Fenech of all charges in Daphne Caruana Galizia murder](https://pollar.news/en/event/yorgen-fenech-acquitted-in-malta): A jury in Valletta voted 8-1 to clear the 44-year-old tycoon of masterminding the 2017 car bomb assassination of anti-corruption reporter Da - [US and Venezuela sign energy pact covering 17 oilfields and 65 billion barrels](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-eyes-venezuela-oil): US Energy Secretary Chris Wright met Acting President Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas to finalize contracts giving Western operators access to ov - [Germany appoints Olympic champion Ronald Rauhe as minister of state for sport](https://pollar.news/en/event/rauhe-appointed-german-sports-minister): Chancellor Friedrich Merz has named two-time Olympic canoe gold medallist Ronald Rauhe as Minister of State for Sport and Volunteering, conc - [Carla Jeffery, actress known for Disney Channel 'Zombies' films, dies at 33](https://pollar.news/en/event/carla-jeffery-dies-at-33): American actress Carla Jeffery, who played cheerleader Bree across Disney Channel's 'Zombies' franchise and appeared in 'Curb Your Enthusias - [Romanian Supreme Court frees Horațiu Potra from house arrest under judicial control](https://pollar.news/en/event/court-eases-potra-detention): Romania's High Court of Cassation and Justice replaced the house arrest of mercenary leader Horațiu Potra with 60 days of judicial control i - [Simultaneous outages hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini across global networks](https://pollar.news/en/event/leading-ai-chatbots-suffer-outages): OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google suffered concurrent service disruptions on Thursday afternoon, leaving millions of web and mobile users u - [New York City halts generative AI tools for 600,000 elementary and middle school students](https://pollar.news/en/event/nyc-bans-classroom-ai): Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing artificial intelligence across public schools from pre-school through - [Polish court detains truck driver on drug charges after fatal A1 motorway crash](https://pollar.news/en/event/fatal-crash-closes-a1-highway): The Częstochowa District Court ordered three months of detention for a truck driver who tested positive for clephedrone after a collision th - [Armed passenger with Kalashnikov arrested at Brussels Gare du Midi](https://pollar.news/en/event/kalashnikov-arrest-in-brussels): Customs and railway police detained a man carrying a Kalashnikov assault rifle in his bag after he arrived by train from France at Brussels' - [Poland defeat Netherlands in four sets to reach EuroVolley 2026 semifinals](https://pollar.news/en/event/poland-reach-eurovolley-semifinals): The Polish women's volleyball team advanced to the EuroVolley 2026 semifinals in Istanbul after defeating the Netherlands 3-1 on Thursday, s - [Italian police investigate suspected murder-suicide of former couple on A1 viaduct near Florence](https://pollar.news/en/event/fatal-tuscan-viaduct-incident): Officers discovered the bodies of a 36-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman beneath the Alteta viaduct in Barberino del Mugello after the wo - [Greek police investigate Marathon home after woman admits burying mother in garden for pension](https://pollar.news/en/event/marathon-garden-burial-inquiry): Excavation teams in Marathon searched the courtyard of a home on Ithakis Street after a woman admitted concealing her mother's death for a d - [Lenovo unveils fanless AeroBlade and rollable Swan concepts alongside RTX Spark Yoga laptops](https://pollar.news/en/event/lenovo-unveils-concept-laptops): At IFA Berlin 2026, Lenovo showcased two concept laptops featuring solid-state cooling and an unrolling display, alongside new Yoga laptops - [King Charles, Emmanuel Macron, and Andy Burnham preview Bayeux Tapestry at British Museum](https://pollar.news/en/event/macron-visits-london-for-exhibition): British and French leaders attended a VIP viewing at the British Museum ahead of a ten-month exhibition, marking the 11th-century artefact's - [Météo-France issues orange heatwave alert for five southern departments as temperatures approach 40°C](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-issues-heatwave-alert): Météo-France placed Ardèche, Aude, Drôme, Gard, and Hérault on orange heatwave alert starting Friday at noon, forecasting temperatures reach - [Airbus resumes A330 deliveries after stray tool slows summer production](https://pollar.news/en/event/airbus-resumes-a330-deliveries): Airbus has resumed deliveries of its A330 jetliner after finding a stray tool in the tail section of an aircraft during production, causing - [Minneapolis apartment shooting leaves two dead, suspect killed, and three officers injured](https://pollar.news/en/event/minneapolis-shooting-leaves-one-dead): Police responded to gunfire at a residential building near the Minneapolis Convention Center on Wednesday afternoon, where two victims and t - [Norway seizes Russian vessel in Svalbard over $4.22B Naftogaz claim](https://pollar.news/en/event/norway-seizes-russian-vessel): Norwegian authorities detained the Russian expedition vessel Professor Molchanov in Svalbard to enforce a $4.22 billion arbitration award wo - [Coroner confirms actor Tim Curry died of coronary artery disease at 80](https://pollar.news/en/event/curry-dies-at-80): Public health documents from Los Angeles County identify coronary artery disease as the primary cause of death for British actor Tim Curry, - [Greece files diplomatic protest to Turkey over Aegean marine parks and spatial planning](https://pollar.news/en/event/greece-protests-turkish-marine-parks): The Greek embassy in Ankara delivered a protest démarche to Turkey on 3 September 2026, rejecting Turkish decrees on marine parks and spatia - [Tara Davis-Woodhall suffers severe concussion in car crash ahead of Budapest meet](https://pollar.news/en/event/davis-woodhall-suffers-crash-concussion): Olympic long jump champion Tara Davis-Woodhall is evaluating her participation in the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship after - [Antonelli faces back-of-grid penalty at Monza as Ferrari targets home win](https://pollar.news/en/event/antonelli-faces-monza-grid-penalty): Formula One championship leader Kimi Antonelli will start from the back of the grid after an engine change, while Ferrari introduces power u - [Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson dies at 70 in Mississippi](https://pollar.news/en/event/cassandra-wilson-dies-at-70): Two-time Grammy winner and NEA Jazz Master Cassandra Wilson has died at age 70 at her home in Jackson, Mississippi. - [Yunchaokete Bu defeats 12th seed Rafael Jódar in straight sets at US Open](https://pollar.news/en/event/bu-eliminates-rafael-jodar): The Chinese lucky loser beat the 19-year-old Spaniard 6-2, 6-1, 6-1 in one hour and 47 minutes on Court 17 following a two-hour rain delay. - [Mexican police arrest two after Camilo Séptimo musician and family killed in Atizapán](https://pollar.news/en/event/mexican-musician-family-killed): Mexican authorities arrested two suspects, including a business associate, after Camilo Séptimo keyboardist Jonathan Meléndez, his pregnant - [Shelton, Muchova and Medvedev advance to US Open third round amid rain delays](https://pollar.news/en/event/alcaraz-sabalenka-win-openers): Ben Shelton, Karolina Muchova and Daniil Medvedev earned victories on Wednesday as rain disrupted outdoor play and forced matches under the - [Nine injured in liquid attack on AfD campaign stand in Bad Kreuznach](https://pollar.news/en/event/nine-injured-in-afd-attack): A suspect has been identified after an irritating liquid was poured from an adjacent building onto an Alternative for Germany information bo - [Germany blames Russia for Leipzig airport drone attack and shuts Bonn consulate](https://pollar.news/en/event/leipzig-airport-drone-plot-exposed): German authorities identified two Russian-linked suspects behind an explosive drone plot targeting a Ukrainian Antonov transport plane at Le - [Nepal and Tibet flood death toll reaches 1,225 as search operations enter second week](https://pollar.news/en/event/deadly-himalayan-flash-floods-strike): A week after a glacier collapse triggered flash floods across the Nepal-China border, the death toll has reached 1,225 with thousands missin - [US judge rejects federal bid to force sale of Google advertising exchange](https://pollar.news/en/event/google-avoids-ad-breakup): A federal judge in Virginia declined to force Google to sell its AdX exchange, imposing behavioral remedies instead of a structural breakup - [Bayern Munich beat VfL Osnabrück 4-1 to complete DFB-Pokal first round](https://pollar.news/en/event/bayern-beat-osnabrueck-4-1): Harry Kane scored twice as defending champions Bayern Munich recovered from an early deficit to defeat second-tier VfL Osnabrück 4-1 at the ## 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 - 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