Canada police make 'Mafia' sweep
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Canadian police arrest about 90 people suspected of involvement in Mafia-style organised crime, in Montreal.
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Italian police raided scores of homes in the Naples area Tuesday and arrested 52 suspected mobsters, the largest single offensive in the state&#39;s bid to end a bloody organized crime war that has terrified this southern Italian city.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The illegal trade in stolen and smuggled tobacco, once the work of lone, street-corner thugs, is a source of growing concern for police across the country now that organized crime is involved, a senior RCMP officer says.
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Police investigating a crime gang based in Northern Ireland carry out searches in the UK and Ireland.
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The US government is stepping up efforts to patrol its porous northern border with Canada by using helicopters, airplanes and boats to monitor illegal immigration and drug traffic, officials said on Friday.
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Finance police have raided Italy&#39;s Olympic Committee and the committee organising the 2006 Winter Games, investigative sources say.
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Authorities in Italy and the United States conducted raids Thursday targeting dozens of alleged members of Mafia clans who controlled drug trafficking between the two sides of the Atlantic, officials said.
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PALERMO, Sicily  - Police raided houses and  hideouts around the Sicilian capital on Tuesday and arrested 46  Mafiosi they said formed an web of protection around top Cosa  Nostra boss Bernardo Provenzano, on the run for four decades.
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VICTORIA (CP) - Three people appeared in Victoria provincial court Friday on drug-conspiracy charges arising from an investigation linked to December's police raid at the B.C. legislature.
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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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Police swept the Pakistani capital on Saturday to arrest the leaders of opposition parties vowing to obstruct President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's re-election bid, officials said.
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NAPLES, Italy  - Italian police raided scores of homes in the Naples area Tuesday and arrested 52 suspected mobsters, the largest single offensive in the state's bid to end a bloody organized crime war that has terrified this southern Italian city.
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Police claim to have disrupted one of the biggest gangs smuggling illigal immigrants
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OTTAWA (CP) - Maher Arar says two of his in-laws were interrogated by Tunisian secret police and he suspects it was done on behalf of Canadian authorities.
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Canadian police were investigating on   Tuesday after an Air India flight turned back to Toronto after   reports of a suspicious package aboard.
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MONTREAL (CP) - A provincewide sweep of marijuana fields has netted police more than 60,000 pot plants and 71 arrests.
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Beleaguered telecoms giant Nortel Networks has been mired in new controversy, after disclosing that Canadian police had launched a criminal probe into its bookkeeping scandal.