Italy busts 'migrant kidnap gang'
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Italian police say they have broken up a gang suspected of kidnapping illegal immigrants and holding them for ransom.
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Police conducted raids across northern Italy on Monday, breaking up a leftist militant group that was allegedly planning kidnappings or kneecappings of victims to finance its plots, Milan prosecutors said. Police said they arrested 15 suspects in Milan, Turin, Padua and other northern Italian cities.
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Police have arrested scores of people in a crackdown on organized crime in southern Italy, including on clans that had a grip on the local tourist industry, authorities said Tuesday.
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Two boys who hold Italian citizenship have been kidnapped along with their Venezuelan mother in the South American country, the Italian Embassy said Friday.
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Spanish police say they have arrested a senior member of the Camorra - the Italian mafia gang based in Naples.
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An Italian aid organization in Iraq says two Italian women working for the group have been kidnapped. Witnesses say gunmen stormed the central Baghdad offices of the Italian organization, Bridge to Baghdad
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Police on Monday captured the top boss of a powerful organized crime syndicate whose clan feuds have bloodied southern Italy for years, authorities said Monday.
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Police in Italy and Germany on Tuesday arrested four members of an Italian crime family linked to the execution-style killings of six Italians in Germany last August.
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Gunmen abducted two Italians working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza on Tuesday, the latest in a spate of kidnappings of foreigners in the Palestinian coastal strip.
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U.S., Italian authorities round up mob figures, including leaders of notorious Gambino family.
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A gang targeting diplomats and wealthy individuals - including socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson - exported more than Â£1.5m worth of stolen cars to the Middle East in a 'highly sophisticated' ringing operation
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Armed men seized two Italian aid workers and two Iraqis in their offices here on Tuesday in the most brazen kidnapping raid here in months.
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Italian police arrested 17 members of a mafia clan that operated in Canada and cities across Italy in a pre-dawn operation on Tuesday, police said.
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Gunmen seized several hostages from an Italian oil supply vessel off the coast of southern Nigeria, security officials said Wednesday.
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American and Italian authorities arrested dozens of people Thursday&#13;&#10;in a takedown of what they called a trans-Atlantic drug trafficking&#13;&#10;operation run by the Mafia
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Kidnappers disguised in police fatigues kidnapped two Italian women working for a humanitarian organization in Baghdad Tuesday. Qatar&#39;s al-Jazeera television said gunmen stormed
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Gunmen abducted two Italians working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in southern Gaza on Tuesday, the latest in a spate of kidnappings of foreigners in the Palestinian coastal strip.