Italy launches major offensive against organized crime
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Italian Police launched a major offensive against the Neapolitan crime syndicate the Camorra on Tuesday with the arrests of at least 52 people, Italian media reported.
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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 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 on Thursday rounded up dozens of suspected members of a notorious mafia family whose internal feuding has been blamed for the murders of six Italian men in Germany two weeks ago.
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Police in Naples have smashed a Mafia "summit" and arrested seven people suspected of involvement in an escalating war between rival gangs, Italian media reported on Thursday.
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A new Italian white wine has become a symbol of the fight against organized crime, incurring the wrath of gangsters from Naples because it was produced from grapes grown on land confiscated from a Mafia godfather.
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Italian police involved in a violent raid against anti-globalisation protesters in Genoa in 2001 will face trial.
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The reputed head of the Genovese crime family was charged Wednesday with extortion and loansharking as the federal government began a fresh crackdown on what it describes as the most dangerous of the city's five organized crime families.
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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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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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Italy is becoming a nation of cocaine users, according to a senior government minister.
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British Attorney-General Lord Peter Goldsmith Tuesday unveiled plans for an FBI-style agency to fight organized crime.
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Italy is urging Libya to tackle the swelling flow of illegal migrants as hundreds more land on Italian shores.
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U.S., Italian authorities round up mob figures, including leaders of notorious Gambino family.
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Italy&#39;s big three unions have staged a nationwide strike to protest against the government&#39;s economic policies, in a show of strength the left said was the start of a campaign to unseat Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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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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Italy's cabinet approved on Wednesday a tough set of measures to tackle hooliganism at soccer stadiums, Vannino Chiti, the minister for relations with parliament, said.