Italy police smash Nigerian gang
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Italy arrests dozens of alleged members of a gang trafficking Nigerians to work as prostitutes and drug couriers.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 7 -- U.S. and Italian law enforcement officials Thursday rounded up dozens of organized crime figures, including the top leadership of New York's notorious Gambino family, in what was described by authorities here as the biggest takedown of the Mafia in recent memory.
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Three Italians working for the Agip oil company have been kidnapped during an attack by armed assailants on an oil installation in southern Nigeria in which one person was wounded.
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Italian and British police arrested nine suspected members of a North African Islamic militant group linked to al Qaeda, which had the potential to strike targets in Europe, Italian police said on Thursday.
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Nei pressi della capitale economica della Nigeria, Lagos; secondo i giornali locali i morti potrebbero essere da 15 a 50. La polizia ipotizza che lâesplosione sia stata causata da ladri che cercavano di
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RAMADI - Twenty-one policemen were shot dead, execution style, when an armed gang stormed a police station Sunday in a small town in the restive Iraqi province of Al-Anbar, a police officer said.
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Police have detained more than 50 people in a swoop on the local mafia, known as the Camorra, in the southern Italian city of Naples, which has been the scene of an escalating turf war.
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Three Italians are  kidnapped by masked gunmen in speedboats in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta.
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Police launched a massive manhunt as gang warfare in Naples claimed more lives with the execution-style slaying of three men by assailants police believe posed as undercover cops.
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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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Gunmen attacked a southern Nigerian oil installation belonging to a subsidiary of Italy's Eni SpA early Thursday, taking three Italians hostage and killing another person, Italian and Nigerian officials said.
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Italian police said Monday they broke up a cell with ties to Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.
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Police broke up an Italian-Canadian mafia clan that ran drug trafficking and money laundering operations, arresting 12 people on Tuesday and seizing millions of dollars in assets, officials said.
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Operation targets power base of Calabrian underworld organisation.
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Police in southern Italy have arrested the head of the powerful 'Ndrangheta Mafia clan, officials say.
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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 arrest 14 people suspected of smuggling thousands of illegal immigrants from north Africa.