33 held after mob kills police
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Federal police arrested 33 people in raids on a town where a murderous mob beat and burned to death two police officers accused of child stealing.
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Iraqi police found the bodies of 14 policemen on Friday, all shot in the head, hours after an al Qaeda-linked group showed pictures of 18 men it said were seized to avenge the alleged rape of a woman last month.
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Four men were arrested in connection with the case, the police said.
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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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Italian police on Thursday rounded up dozens of members of a notorious mafia family, whose internal feuding has been blamed for the slaying of six Italian men in Germany two weeks ago.
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Four men were arrested Saturday in connection with the fatal shootings of a baby, a toddler and their mothers while the women held their children in their arms, police said.
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TEGUCIGALPA  - Police in Honduras began investigating an horrific massacre of 26 people, killed when their bus was strafed by automatic gunfire, in what officials suspect was a message from local gangs to crime-busting politicians and President
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A policeman shot and killed an opposition lawmaker Thursday in what authorities say was a crime of passion over a woman. But machete-wielding protesters convinced it was an assassination clashed with police, leaving at least three dead.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Gunmen captured 21 Iraqi  policemen and shot them in cold blood on Sunday, a day after  attacks on security forces that killed 34 people, police said.
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Police arrested scores of suspected mobsters in Palermo on Wednesday in the latest raid on suspected Sicilian Mafia hideouts.
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MEXICO CITY, Nov. 24 - This city seemed in a state of shock on Wednesday as people struggled to come to grips with the scenes of lawlessness captured on television as an angry mob lynched two police officers
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Four Guatemalan policemen held over the murders of three Salvadorean politicians are shot dead in prison.
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Police killed at least 13 suspected drug traffickers in a huge operation Wednesday aimed at ending a war between authorities and gangs that has raged for nearly two months in a Rio de Janeiro slum.
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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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Scores of suspects were being arrested in a crackdown on organized crime clans whose feud is believed to have led to the shooting deaths of six Italians in Germany this month, Italian police said Thursday.
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Police are treating as murder the death of a man who had been assaulted in Belfast city centre.
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Gunmen captured 21 Iraqi policemen and shot them in cold blood on Sunday, a day after attacks on security forces that killed 34 people, police said.