Notorious Russian mafia boss held
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Detectives confirm arrest in Moscow of mafia boss wanted by both US and UK
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Russian police hold a third suspect over the theft of more than 200 items from the Hermitage art museum.
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The former head of a district in Chechnya has been arrested on suspicion of organizing the execution-style murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian newspaper reported Saturday.
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Police in the Italian region of Sicily seize 46 people suspected of helping a fugitive mafia boss.
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MOSCOW: Police have arrested two Chechen suspects in connection with the murder of journalist Paul Klebnikov, the editor of Forbes magazine&#39;s Russian edition, who was shot in an apparent contract killing in July.
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The factional leader of a powerful Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told Reuters on Saturday.
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Russian prosecutors charge exile Boris Berezovsky with plotting to seize power in Moscow, his lawyer says.
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Italian police have arrested the leader of  the powerful Calabrian mafia, Interior Minister Giuliano Amato  said on Monday.
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Police charged a reputed international crime boss with tax evasion Wednesday, pursuing prosecution of a man wanted in the U.S. and suspected of playing a key role in Russia's lucrative natural-gas trade with Europe.
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Russian police have arrested a third  Chechen in their investigation into the murder of a U.S.  reporter who wrote about the volatile region and charted the  fortunes of the rich, local media reported Friday.
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Police in Germany and Italy arrest four people over a mafia shooting in the German city of Duisburg in August.
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The Russian government issued an arrest warrant for the chief lawyer for Yukos and arrested a midlevel executive at a company subsidiary.
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Police say they have arrested one of Italy's most wanted Mafia bosses, fugitive Antonio Rosmini.
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A man wanted in Italy for "Mafia-type association" is arrested in London by armed police.
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A powerful Russian prosecutor said on  Friday self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky could be  behind the murder of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, a  charge dismissed by a friend of Litvinenko.
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A Russian ex-Olympic champion avoids jail over his role in plotting to kill a regional governor.
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U.S. federal agents have arrested a Mexico City businessman wanted in connection with one of the Western Hemisphere's largest trafficking rings for the main chemical ingredient in methamphetamine.