53 arrested as police swoop at dawn to end Naples&#39;s Mafia war
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ITALIAN police yesterday launched a series of dawn raids in Naples in an attempt to end a vicious Mafia war that has claimed more than 20 lives in the past month.
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Dutch police stormed an apartment and  arrested two people on Wednesday, ending a 14-hour stand-off  that began when suspects sought in anti-terrorism probe wounded  three officers in a hand grenade blast.
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Anti-Mafia judges have ordered the arrest of 52 people suspected of having links to extortion and money-laundering rackets in a southern region of Italy.
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Police swooped in northern Spain inthe early hours of Tuesday to net 17 suspected members of the Basque separatist guerrilla group ETA, the Spanish Interior Ministry announced Tuesday.
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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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Dutch special forces and negotiators ended a 14-hour siege of a house in The Hague, where three anti- terrorist police had been injured by a grenade during a predawn raid, with the arrest of two suspects.
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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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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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Italian police arrested 45 people Tuesday in an anti-Mafia crackdown in Sicily, including top mobsters who had allegedly been in contact with Bernardo Provenzano, the reputed No. 1 boss apprehended earlier this year.
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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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Dozens of people are held by US and Italian authorities targeting an alleged drug-trafficking racket.
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Police arrest 15 people across north Italy suspected of trying to revive the Red Brigades urban guerrilla group.
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Dutch police stormed an apartment and  arrested two people on Wednesday, ending a 14-hour stand-off  that began when suspects sought in an anti-terrorism probe  wounded three officers with a hand grenade.
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Twenty-five people arrested in dawn raids as police try to shut down a gang that trafficked children
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Operation targets power base of Calabrian underworld organisation.
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The bullet-ridden bodies of three men were found in a car in Naples on Tuesday as police and government chiefs held emergency meetings over how to combat a mob turf battle in the southern Italian city.
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Dozens were arrested after angry protesters threw cobblestones at police Thursday when an anti-terror squad started a disputed eviction of squatters from a downtown building, police said.