# 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. - [Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake Strikes Kumamoto, Japan; At Least One Dead, Many Trapped in Collapsed Mall](https://pollar.news/en/event/71-quake-hits-southern-japan): A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture on Japan's Kyushu island at 16:27 local time, triggering a tsunami advisory and causin - [Mancini returns as Italy head coach, Ranieri named technical director after Pirlo sponsorship storm](https://pollar.news/en/event/pirlo-new-italy-coach): Roberto Mancini begins a second stint as Italy's head coach and Claudio Ranieri replaces Paolo Maldini as technical director, the FIGC annou - [France battles largest wildfire since 1949 as 250,000 evacuate across Gironde and Landes](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-wildfire-evacuates-12000): Firefighters are struggling to contain the fire that has already burned 42,000 hectares and destroyed at least 240 homes. Fourteen flare-ups - [Berlin CSD attacker pledged IS loyalty, had jihadist cousins; court released him despite danger warnings](https://pollar.news/en/event/berlin-csd-well-only-get-louder): After the deadly van attack at Berlin's Christopher Street Day parade, police found a video on the perpetrator's phone swearing loyalty to t - [PiS Political Committee meets to expel Morawiecki's faction, former PM vows new parliamentary club](https://pollar.news/en/event/kurski-silenced-after-rant): The Law and Justice (PiS) Political Committee gathered in Warsaw on Tuesday afternoon to ratify the exclusion of over 30 MPs who refused to - [Spain's Worst Wildfire on Record Scorches 50,000 Hectares as Evacuations Lift](https://pollar.news/en/event/12000-ha-burned-in-guadalajara): The Burgohondo fire in Ávila has burned over 50,000 hectares, making it the largest wildfire in Spain since records began, while authorities - [Medjugorje shrine vandalized: altar set on fire, 'Devil in a skirt' graffiti; Polish suspect arrested](https://pollar.news/en/event/medjugorje-shrine-attacked): Statues of the Virgin Mary were smeared with black paint and graffiti reading 'Devil in a skirt', and the outdoor altar of St. James Church - [Apple briefly surpasses $5 trillion market cap, becoming second company after Nvidia to reach the milestone](https://pollar.news/en/event/apple-tops-5-trillion): Apple shares hit an intraday record of $342.89 on Tuesday, briefly lifting its valuation above $5.036 trillion, as investors fleeing AI and - [Four infant skeletons and decomposing newborn found in boxes at Orange, France home; murder investigation launched](https://pollar.news/en/event/remains-of-five-babies-found-in-france): A 32-year-old woman gave birth at home on Sunday before her partner, learning late of the pregnancy, searched their flat and found what look - [Zidane Becomes France Head Coach, Mbappé Says 'Welcome Home' After Deschamps Era Ends](https://pollar.news/en/event/zidane-takes-france-job): The French Football Federation confirmed Zinedine Zidane, 54, as the new manager of Les Bleus on a four-year deal running through the 2030 W - [Berlin Pride attacker was under police surveillance; Polish woman dead, 31 injured](https://pollar.news/en/event/polish-victim-in-berlin-attack): On Saturday evening, a van rammed into Berlin's Pride parade, killing a 65-year-old Polish woman and injuring 31. The suspect, a known Islam - [FIFA plans to sell minority stake in World Cup commercial rights to investors, triggering UEFA backlash](https://pollar.news/en/event/fifas-billion-dollar-rights-sale): The FIFA Forward Enterprise entity, valued at $20 billion, would bundle media, sponsorship, ticketing and licensing rights for men's and wom - [Mercedes-Benz Q2 profit rises 13.5% on cost cuts, but China car sales slump forces outlook downgrade](https://pollar.news/en/event/mercedes-warns-on-china): Second-quarter group net profit climbed to €1.09 billion, but a 30% drop in China car sales triggered a warning that full-year revenue and d - [Boeing posts $428 million loss as Air Force One overruns add $280 million in Q2](https://pollar.news/en/event/boeing-deep-in-red): A fresh $280 million charge on the long-delayed presidential jet programme pushed Boeing to a second-quarter loss of $428 million, more than - [Trump meets Zelenskyy and Netanyahu in Washington before senator Graham's funeral; Patriot missiles and Iran's Pickaxe site discussed](https://pollar.news/en/event/diplomacy-at-grahams-funeral): Presidents Trump and Zelenskyy discussed a licence for Patriot interceptor production in Ukraine and reviving diplomacy. Afterwards, Trump m - [Tusk blames right-wing politicians after brutal assault on Ukrainian couple in Wroclaw](https://pollar.news/en/event/wroclaw-hate-crime-attack): The attack on 20-year-old Anastazja and 21-year-old Maksym on 26 July was filmed and shared widely; two suspects are in custody, with one al - [Germany Deports 31 Afghans in Night Flight, Including First Non-Criminal Since Taliban Takeover](https://pollar.news/en/event/germany-expands-afghan-deportations): A charter flight carried 30 convicted offenders and one man required to leave from Leipzig to Kabul early Tuesday, marking an expansion of B - [Barclays half-year profit rises 17% to £6.1bn, upgrades outlook and boosts bonuses; Asia investment banking push gains traction](https://pollar.news/en/event/barclays-profit-up-17): Pre-tax profit hit £6.1 billion, beating forecasts, while the bonus pool rose almost 30% to £1.3 billion, prompting calls for higher bank ta - [Global chip stocks fall as China's DUV breakthrough and AI funding fears trigger selloff](https://pollar.news/en/event/asia-chip-selloff-deepens): South Korea's KOSPI closed down 10.8% and trading was briefly halted after reports that a Chinese state-backed firm began mass-producing adv - [Zelenskyy presses Trump for Patriot missile production license in private White House meeting](https://pollar.news/en/event/zelenskyy-seeks-patriot-deal): Ukraine's president pressed Donald Trump to greenlight domestic manufacturing of Patriot interceptor missiles during a closed-door White Hou - [IFAB: VAR wrong to send off Switzerland's Embolo in World Cup quarter-final against Argentina](https://pollar.news/en/event/embolo-red-card-error): The IFAB circular states the mistaken identity rule cannot be used to change the nature of an offence, meaning Breel Embolo's second yellow - [Arcadi España postpones Spanish fiscal council meeting to September 4 at request of 13 PP regions citing data gaps](https://pollar.news/en/event/cpff-postponed-to-september): The meeting, initially set for 29 July, was to approve a new autonomous financing model. The PP-led regions said they received incomplete si - [Vox threatens to break Seville pact with PP after mosque license approval](https://pollar.news/en/event/seville-mosque-license-approved): Seville's city council approved a permit for a mosque and Islamic cultural center in the Polígono Sur district on Tuesday, prompting Vox to - [Zaragoza wins bid to host Spain's new public health agency, beating Granada and six other cities](https://pollar.news/en/event/zaragoza-gets-health-agency): Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Tuesday that Zaragoza will host the State Public Health Agency, a body mandated by a 2011 law and - [Ariana Grande sues hackers over leaks of 45 unreleased songs in 2023, hundreds since 2011](https://pollar.news/en/event/grande-sues-music-hackers): The pop star filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on Monday, alleging hackers stole 45 songs in 2023 alone and have leaked hundreds of tracks sinc - [Johnson & Johnson offers $5.5 billion to settle 76,000 talc cancer lawsuits, ending decade-long battle](https://pollar.news/en/event/jj-55bn-talc-settlement): The pharmaceutical giant aims to end a decade-long legal battle with a $5.5 billion offer that covers nearly all remaining talc claims in th - [Savannah Guthrie begs mother's kidnappers: 'Tell us where to look' six months after disappearance](https://pollar.news/en/event/guthrie-pleads-for-mothers-return): Nearly six months after her 84-year-old mother Nancy vanished from her Arizona home, 'Today' co-anchor Savannah Guthrie posted a video direc - [Fourth heatwave hits Trentino-Alto Adige, freezing level climbs to 4,900 metres](https://pollar.news/en/event/fourth-heatwave-hits-italy): The African anticyclone is driving a fourth heatwave of the season across Trentino-Alto Adige, with the freezing level reaching 4,900 metres - [Spain's unemployment rate falls below 10% as employment hits record 22.78 million](https://pollar.news/en/event/spain-jobless-rate-below-10): Unemployment fell by 213,300 in the second quarter to 2.5 million, pushing the rate to 9.87%, while the number of people in work reached an - [Daniel Obajtek charged with false testimony and pulling weekly from Orlen shelves, calls charges a source of pride](https://pollar.news/en/event/obajtek-charged): The former Orlen chief was charged in two cases at the Warsaw Regional Prosecutor's Office on 28 July 2026, while PiS politicians demonstrat - [English football to trial rule removing outfield player after goalkeeper treatment to end tactical stoppages](https://pollar.news/en/event/trial-to-stop-tactical-keeper-stoppages): From August 1, English football will test a new system that forces a team to remove an outfield player for one minute whenever a goalkeeper - [House Democrat opens investigation into FIFA president Gianni Infantino over Trump ties](https://pollar.news/en/event/infantino-faces-congress-probe): Jamie Raskin demands documents, visitor logs, and a transcribed interview by 9 August, citing a peace prize, a Trump Tower office, and the l - [Burnham welcomes Zelenskyy as first foreign visitor, pledges social care reform in opening week](https://pollar.news/en/event/burnham-to-become-uk-pm): New UK prime minister Andy Burnham hosted Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Portsmouth naval base on Monday, announcing new drone-jamming technology, w - [Stellantis sells Free2move car-sharing unit to Mutares, doubling down on core vehicle production](https://pollar.news/en/event/stellantis-sells-free2move-unit): The automaker will divest its entire stake in the car-sharing platform, which operates in 14 cities across Europe and the US, as part of its - [Poland's foreign ministry blasts Putin's 'primitive disinformation' on western Ukraine](https://pollar.news/en/event/poland-slams-putins-territorial-claims): Polish authorities have issued a sharp rebuttal after Vladimir Putin said Ukraine would eventually lose its western regions to neighbours in - [Claude AI leak: Hundreds of private chats with health, legal data indexed by Google and Bing](https://pollar.news/en/event/private-claude-chats-exposed): Anthropic’s Claude AI failed to properly hide shared conversation URLs from search engines, causing hundreds of chats containing medical rec - [Trump hails 'good talks' with Iran as Oman floats Strait of Hormuz plan, but drone strikes test pause](https://pollar.news/en/event/opec-boosts-august-output): A third day of calm between US and Iranian forces gave way to diplomatic maneuvering on Tuesday, as Oman presented a proposal for joint mana - [Spain declares 211 areas emergency zones after wildfires burn 170,000 hectares and kill 13](https://pollar.news/en/event/spain-declares-211-wildfire-emergency-zones): The Spanish Council of Ministers approved emergency declarations for 211 areas in 14 autonomous communities on Tuesday, covering catastrophi - [Germany braces for three-day heatwave with temperatures up to 39°C](https://pollar.news/en/event/germany-heatwave-to-hit-39c): Temperatures will climb to 39°C in parts of Germany by Thursday, with the DWD warning of heat stress and thunderstorms, before cooler air ar - [Netanyahu meets Trump in Washington for first time since Middle East war, with Iran and Gaza topping agenda](https://pollar.news/en/event/netanyahu-and-trump-meet-on-middle-east-war): Benjamin Netanyahu meets Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday for the first time since the Middle East war began, with Iran, Gaza and the f - [Rhineland-Palatinate CDU cancels Merz meeting as party fury over Schnieder sacking grows](https://pollar.news/en/event/merz-reshuffles-cabinet): The Rhineland-Palatinate CDU parliamentary group cancels a September meeting with the chancellor, citing 'lack of trust and appreciation' af - [Josep Vilarasau, who transformed La Caixa from a regional savings bank into a financial giant, dies at 95](https://pollar.news/en/event/vilarasau-dies-at-95): Josep Vilarasau, the former director general and president of La Caixa, has died in Barcelona at 95. He masterminded the conversion of the C - [Sidny Lopes Cabral's extra-time curler for Cape Verde against Argentina voted FIFA World Cup 2026 best goal](https://pollar.news/en/event/cabrals-goal-named-best): FIFA announced on Monday that Cape Verde international Sidny Lopes Cabral has won the fan vote for the best goal of the 2026 World Cup, for - [Germany's online vacation rental bookings hit record 68.3 million overnight stays in 2025, driven by domestic demand](https://pollar.news/en/event/record-german-rental-stays): Travellers booked 68.3 million nights through Airbnb, Booking.com and Expedia in 2025, a 13% jump from last year and more than 83% above pre - [France and Spain battle worst wildfires in living memory as new 42°C heatwave looms](https://pollar.news/en/event/wildfires-rage-ahead-of-heatwave): Firefighters in France and Spain are racing to contain the worst wildfires in living memory, with over 330,000 people evacuated, as meteorol - [Seven firefighters injured in wildfires across Portugal's Guarda, Vila Verde, Penafiel and Mourão](https://pollar.news/en/event/seven-firefighters-injured-in-portugal): Five civil protection agents were hurt in Guarda and two in Vila Verde, with hundreds of personnel still battling active fronts late Monday. - [Singer D4vd ordered to stand trial for stabbing and dismembering 14-year-old girl in Los Angeles](https://pollar.news/en/event/d4vd-murder-trial-to-proceed): A Los Angeles judge has ordered singer D4vd to stand trial on charges of murdering and dismembering 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who - [Spain battles record wildfires as new heatwave looms, 70,000 evacuated](https://pollar.news/en/event/spains-record-wildfires-rage): Fires in Madrid and Ávila regions have destroyed over 77,000 hectares, with a new heatwave expected to push temperatures past 40°C from Wedn - [Berlin pride attacker was filmed leaving home an hour before the attack, surveillance was scaled back days earlier](https://pollar.news/en/event/berlin-attacker-was-under-camera-watch): A hidden police camera recorded Abdul Ballout leaving his Berlin apartment at 20:58 on Saturday, roughly one hour before he drove a van into - [Vall d'Uixó fire enters fourth day with 8,500 hectares burned and a narrow weather window before a new heatwave](https://pollar.news/en/event/8500-hectares-burned-in-castellon): Authorities lifted confinement in La Vall d'Uixó on Tuesday morning but kept evacuations in place for roughly 10,000 people across 15 other ## 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)