# 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, 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 is characterized by a reciprocal escalation of long-range strikes, with Ukraine systematically targeting Russian logistics, energy i
- [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.

- [ITIA provisionally suspends Nick Kyrgios after positive cocaine test in Mallorca](https://pollar.news/en/event/kyrgios-suspended-for-cocaine): The International Tennis Integrity Agency confirmed Australian player Nick Kyrgios tested positive for benzoylecgonine at the Mallorca Open 
- [United States sanctions ICC President Tomoko Akane and prosecutor Abdoulaye Seye](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-sanctions-icc-leaders): The United States has imposed financial sanctions on International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane and senior prosecutor Abdoulaye Sey
- [Croatia arrests second Ukrainian suspect in 2022 Nord Stream pipeline blasts](https://pollar.news/en/event/nord-stream-suspect-arrested): Croatian police in Pula detained Ukrainian diving instructor Vladimir Z. on a German warrant after Poland refused to extradite him in 2025.
- [Frank Beard, longtime drummer of Texas blues-rock trio ZZ Top, dies at 77](https://pollar.news/en/event/frank-beard-dies-at-77): Frank Beard, who anchored the rhythm section of ZZ Top for more than five decades, died at his ranch in Richmond, Texas, as the band prepare
- [Four US states seek $200 billion from Meta in federal youth addiction trial](https://pollar.news/en/event/meta-addiction-trial-begins): California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey began presenting arguments in an Oakland federal court, accusing Meta of violating child priv
- [Ukraine approves new defense chief as ousted minister Fedorov calls for wartime elections](https://pollar.news/en/event/fedorov-demands-ukraine-elections): Ukrainian lawmakers approved Yevhenii Khmara as defense minister on Wednesday, hours after former minister Mykhailo Fedorov demanded wartime
- [Granada earthquake swarm displaces over 1,000 residents as emergency teams inspect hundreds of buildings](https://pollar.news/en/event/48-quake-shakes-granada): Emergency teams across Granada evaluated hundreds of structures on Wednesday after magnitude 5.0 and 4.8 earthquakes displaced over 1,000 pe
- [Isack Hadjar to miss Dutch Grand Prix with wrist injury as Red Bull brings in Liam Lawson](https://pollar.news/en/event/lawson-replaces-injured-hadjar): Isack Hadjar will miss this weekend's Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort after fracturing his wrist in training, prompting Red Bull to call up Li
- [Melting Trift glacier in Switzerland reveals bodies of two Belgian climbers missing since 1992](https://pollar.news/en/event/missing-1992-climbers-found): Swiss police identified the remains of two Belgian mountaineers discovered by a hiker on the Trift glacier in Valais, 34 years after their d
- [Trump pauses 50% tariffs on Canadian goods for three days following trade talks](https://pollar.news/en/event/us-canada-tariff-talks): US President Donald Trump agreed to a 72-hour suspension of proposed 50% tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian imports after reaching a prelimi
- [Spain plans to relocate 500 migrant girls from Ceuta to mainland facilities](https://pollar.news/en/event/ceuta-health-system-near-collapse): The Ministry of Youth and Children is preparing to transfer approximately 500 unaccompanied girls from Ceuta to the Iberian Peninsula, promp
- [Disney and ABC sue the FCC to block early broadcast license reviews for eight stations](https://pollar.news/en/event/abc-sues-fcc-over-licenses): The Walt Disney Company and ABC filed a First Amendment lawsuit in Washington federal court to halt Federal Communications Commission procee
- [UAE suspends all Iran trade ties following two ballistic missile launches](https://pollar.news/en/event/uae-halts-iran-trade): The United Arab Emirates has halted all commercial and financial transactions with Iran after two ballistic missiles were fired toward Emira
- [Jamal Musiala reveals neurological condition after two match collapses in four days](https://pollar.news/en/event/musiala-collapses-in-bayern-win): Bayern Munich midfielder Jamal Musiala has disclosed that he suffers from treatable absence episodes caused by a neurological dysfunction, f
- [Unitree raises $905 million in Shanghai IPO and unveils Superman humanoid robot](https://pollar.news/en/event/unitree-launches-superman-robot): Chinese robotics maker Unitree has debuted on Shanghai's STAR Market after raising 6.1 billion yuan, days after demonstrating a prototype hu
- [Israel strikes Syrian airbase as Turkey rejects troop deployment claims](https://pollar.news/en/event/israel-strikes-syrian-airbase): Eight Israeli airstrikes damaged the Abu al-Duhur airbase in northwestern Syria, prompting US criticism and Turkish denials of planned milit
- [AS Monaco and Paul Pogba mutually terminate contract after 115 minutes of play](https://pollar.news/en/event/pogba-leaves-monaco): The French midfielder leaves Monaco after making six appearances across one season, following fresh knee and hamstring injuries during pre-s
- [Iran weighs strikes on US bases in Bulgaria and Cyprus if war expands](https://pollar.news/en/event/iran-weighs-european-strikes): Tehran has reviewed military options to strike US assets in Bulgaria and Cyprus and disrupt subsea cables in the Strait of Hormuz if Washing
- [Merck and Moderna report first positive late-stage trial results for personalized mRNA melanoma vaccine](https://pollar.news/en/event/melanoma-mrna-vaccine-succeeds): Moderna and Merck announced that their personalized mRNA vaccine Intismeran, combined with Keytruda, met primary and secondary goals in a 1,
- [Helicopter carrying tourists crashes at Mount Ololokwe in Kenya, leaving no survivors](https://pollar.news/en/event/kenya-tourist-helicopter-crashes): A Eurocopter EC130 B4 on a scenic flight between Loisaba and Ewaso Nyiro crashed in Samburu County on Wednesday morning, prompting drone sea
- [NASA Releases Orbiter Images of Lunar Crater Formed by SpaceX Falcon 9 Impact](https://pollar.news/en/event/nasa-photos-show-lunar-crater): NASA has published photographs taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter showing an 18-meter-wide crater created when a SpaceX Falcon 9 boos
- [Monte dei Paschi weighs bids for Banco BPM and Banca Generali to counter Intesa takeover](https://pollar.news/en/event/monte-dei-paschi-weighs-counter-bids): Monte dei Paschi Chief Executive Luigi Lovaglio has called an extraordinary board meeting for 20 August to examine counter-bids for Banco BP
- [France apologizes as ZeroBytes cyberattack compromises 700,000 tax records](https://pollar.news/en/event/massive-french-tax-data-breach): The French government introduced emergency security measures and issued an apology after hackers breached systems holding data on nearly 700
- [UK prime minister unveils £442m plan to house rough sleepers by Christmas](https://pollar.news/en/event/burnham-unveils-homelessness-plan): Prime Minister Andy Burnham has pledged to provide shelter for rough sleepers across England by Christmas under a £442 million initiative ba
- [Russian depositors pull 286 billion roubles in August as cash hoarding strains banks](https://pollar.news/en/event/russian-cash-run-accelerates): Savers and corporations across Russia withdrew 2.4 trillion roubles in 2026 to date, forcing the Finance Ministry to cancel bond auctions an
- [Russian drone strike on Kherson passenger bus kills four civilians and injures four](https://pollar.news/en/event/kherson-bus-drone-strike): A Russian loitering munition hit a yellow public transit minibus during the morning hours in southern Ukraine, scattering debris across a fr
- [US and South Korea cut joint Ulchi Freedom Shield drills short by six days following Trump order](https://pollar.news/en/event/trump-cuts-south-korea-drills): The Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise will end on 21 August instead of 27 August after Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to scale back operatio
- [UK July inflation rises to 2.9% as energy price cap increase lifts household bills](https://pollar.news/en/event/uk-inflation-reaches-29): Annual inflation in the UK accelerated to 2.9% in July following a 13% increase in Ofgem's household energy price cap, marking the first pic
- [OpenAI pauses frontier AI training and rewrites safety rules after Hugging Face breach](https://pollar.news/en/event/openai-halts-training): OpenAI suspended its largest frontier reinforcement learning run and introduced mandatory 30-minute automated alert protocols following a se
- [Hayden Panettiere dies at 36 in South Carolina apartment as police investigate cause](https://pollar.news/en/event/hayden-panettiere-dies-at-36): The 36-year-old actor was pronounced dead in a Greenville apartment on Sunday afternoon, prompting a local police and coroner investigation 
- [Portugal enacts public face-covering ban with fines up to 3,000 euros](https://pollar.news/en/event/portugal-bans-face-coverings): President António José Seguro signed the legislation after parliamentary approval, establishing fines between 150 and 3,000 euros while exem
- [Erin Patterson begins court appeal against mushroom murder convictions in Melbourne](https://pollar.news/en/event/erin-patterson-appeals-convictions): Lawyers for the 51-year-old argue that housing jurors in the same hotel as police and prosecutors denied her a fair trial, while the state a
- [LandSpace lands reusable Zhuque-3 booster in Gansu after orbital launch](https://pollar.news/en/event/landspace-lands-zhuque-3-booster): Chinese commercial aerospace firm LandSpace recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on landing legs in Gansu province on Wednesday,
- [Global bond selloff lifts 30-year US Treasury yield to 5.33% and pressures tech equities](https://pollar.news/en/event/bond-yields-climb-on-war): A worldwide sovereign bond rout pushed long-term yields in the United States, Germany, and Japan to multi-decade peaks, triggering equity lo
- [AS Roma signs Rodrigo Mora from FC Porto in potential €50M agreement](https://pollar.news/en/event/roma-signs-rodrigo-mora): AS Roma has completed the signing of 19-year-old Portuguese midfielder Rodrigo Mora from FC Porto on a contract running until 2031, paying a
- [Union Berlin signs Swiss midfielder Michel Aebischer from Pisa for 3.5 million euros](https://pollar.news/en/event/union-berlin-signs-michel-aebischer): The 29-year-old Swiss international joins on a three-year contract running to 2029 ahead of Sunday's DFB-Pokal match against Eintracht Braun
- [Warsaw Uprising soldier and activist Wanda Traczyk-Stawska dies at 99](https://pollar.news/en/event/wanda-traczyk-stawska-dies-at-99): Wanda Traczyk-Stawska, a Polish psychologist, educator, and Warsaw Uprising veteran known by the codenames Atma and Pączek, died in Warsaw o
- [Barcelona sign midfielder Rodri from Manchester City on deal through 2030](https://pollar.news/en/event/barcelona-sign-rodri-from-city): FC Barcelona completed the signing of Spanish midfielder Rodri from Manchester City for a fee valued up to 76.5 million euros on a four-year
- [UK watchdog investigates Trainline, Virgin Atlantic, and RED Driving School over drip pricing](https://pollar.news/en/event/uk-probes-hidden-fees): The Competition and Markets Authority opened investigations into Trainline, Virgin Atlantic, and RED Driving School over hidden fees that di
- [TikTok prepares peer-to-peer payment feature inside direct messages](https://pollar.news/en/event/tiktok-tests-messaging-payments): Hidden code discovered in TikTok's US application shows the platform is preparing a peer-to-peer payment tool to let users transfer money vi
- [Polish Defence Ministry clarifies city anti-missile shield after general's remarks](https://pollar.news/en/event/poland-clarifies-city-missile-defence): Poland's Ministry of National Defence clarified that air and missile defence operates as an integrated system, responding to remarks by Brig
- [Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov Calls for Wartime Elections](https://pollar.news/en/event/fedorov-calls-for-wartime-elections): Mykhailo Fedorov published an address warning of a systemic governance crisis and demanding legal mechanisms to allow Ukrainian citizens to 
- [Apple cuts EU App Store fees and replaces per-install charge to comply with Digital Markets Act](https://pollar.news/en/event/apple-cuts-eu-developer-fees): Apple will replace its per-install Core Technology Fee with a 5% commission and lower App Store purchase rates to 26% across the European Un
- [Climate change added up to two degrees to European sea temperatures in July](https://pollar.news/en/event/climate-change-heats-european-seas): A study by World Weather Attribution found that fossil fuel emissions added up to 2 degrees Celsius to the Mediterranean Sea and Western Eur
- [Romania issues orange and yellow heatwave alerts as temperatures reach 39 degrees](https://pollar.news/en/event/romania-issues-heatwave-alerts): The National Meteorological Administration placed eight counties under an orange alert from 20 August as a heatwave spreads across Romania w
- [Harvard agrees to 53 million dollar settlement over medical school morgue body parts theft](https://pollar.news/en/event/harvard-settles-morgue-lawsuits): Harvard University has agreed to a $53 million class-action settlement with families of donors whose bodies were stolen and sold on the blac
- [Liberia agrees to receive up to 1,200 third-country deportees from United States](https://pollar.news/en/event/liberia-accepts-us-deportees): The Liberian government has agreed to accept up to 1,200 foreign nationals deported from the United States over twelve months, with the firs
- [France enacts assisted dying law following Macron promulgation and official publication](https://pollar.news/en/event/france-legalises-assisted-dying): French President Emmanuel Macron has promulgated legislation creating a legal right to assisted dying, with the text published in the Journa
- [EU allows budget deficit flexibility for energy projects, allocating €14.4B to Italy](https://pollar.news/en/event/eu-grants-energy-leeway): The European Commission published 22 eligible measures under the Stability Pact safeguard clause, granting Italy €14.4 billion in deficit le
- [Wildfire in Cáceres burns 1,600 hectares and forces 700 evacuations](https://pollar.news/en/event/cceres-wildfire-forces-evacuations): A wildfire in the Las Hurdes region of Cáceres burned 1,600 hectares of pine forest, prompting the evacuation of 700 residents across ten ha

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