Your privacy choices

We use analytics to improve Pollar and, with your consent, the Meta pixel to measure sign-ups and purchases that come from our ads. You can change this anytime in Settings.

Privacy policy
Pollar
HomeAskLiveBriefSoundsFilmsSearchMapMarketsNotificationsFor You
ThreadsMarkets
NewsroomSupport Pollar
Privacy
Roberto Saviano

Roberto Saviano

Italian journalist and writer (born 1979)

View on Wikipedia

Photo: piero tasso, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)

  • 3h ago

    Saviano's new novel retells the 1981 presumed killing of Rossella Casini, which ended without a conviction

    The novel Mi amor no muere, published in Spain by Alfaguara, is based on a real 'Ndrangheta case involving a Florentine student who fell in love with a man from a Calabrian mafia family. Nobody was ever convicted in her case.

Reader-supported

Free to read, and staying that way

Members read the brief without a sponsor. Membership keeps Pollar independent.

from$29.99/yr

Support Pollar
Membership

Members don't see this panel.

  • Supporter$29.99/yr
  • Founder$69.99/yr
Support Pollar

Today’s Brief

Surgeons remove a papal lung lobe

Trump tests Ukraine truce as missiles hit Kyiv and Houthis menace oil routes

The day’s hardest news came from energy systems, some bombed, some hacked, some traded for political relief. War, regulation and technology all pointed to the same frailty: modern states depend on pipes, grids, code and trust that fail noisily when pressure rises.

Read the Brief

Live now

All live coverage
  • Russian drone strike on Lutsk

    Death toll reaches 6 with 12 injured after Russian drone strike hits Lutsk, as rescue teams clear rubble.

  • Pope Leo XIV undergoes lung surgery

    Walks and eats following a quiet night, showing positive recovery signs after the surgery that confirmed his lung cancer diagnosis.

  • SpaceX limits Starlink in Ukraine

    SpaceX caps speeds on Starlink military terminals, causing outages that disrupt Ukrainian drone missions.

In the spotlight

All threads

World · Updated 4m ago

The Middle East after Gaza

Shipping losses and Houthi strikes on Saudi energy sites deepen existing crises, with no new sanctions package, accord change or Israel-Iran confrontation.

ContactPublisher and newsroom
HomeBriefThreadsAsk
Categories