Arrests thwart return of Mafia clan
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In the Mafia's slang they are scorned as the "scappati" Â the "runaways" Â a crime clan that sought refuge in the United States more than 20 years ago after being nearly wiped out in one of Sicily's bloodiest mob wars.
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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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Colombia has dismantled its big drug cartels and captured high-living kingpins but police say the small, low-profile groups that have taken their place are harder to track down and can be more dangerous.
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Police in southern Italy have arrested the head of the powerful 'Ndrangheta Mafia clan, officials say.
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Dozens of suspected Mafia members are held in Italy as police investigate the killings of six Italians in Germany.
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Four people were arrested Tuesday in connection with the alleged Mafia-linked slayings of six Italians in a western German town, authorities said
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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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Illegal immigrants are vulnerable and at risk from those offering help Italian police say they have broken up a gang suspected of kidnapping illegal immigrants and holding them for ransom.Comment
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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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A three-man Turkish police team is in Vienna to bring back a top mafia boss after an Austrian court ruled for his extradition to his homeland to stand trial, the Anatolia news agency reported Wednesday.
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WINNIPEG (CP) - Police have arrested 35 alleged members and associates of a gang with close ties to the Hells Angels in a raid officials believe will put a significant dent in the group's drug operation.
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The haul has been codenamed "Old Bridge". It could be the beginningof a series of assaults against the "Cosa Nostra" 'families' in America                                          90 jailed in Palermo and New York the bosses of the new Italy-Usa pact
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PALERMO, Sicily  - A large anti-Mafia operation involving arrests in Italy and the United States was under way on Thursday, judicial sources in Sicily said.
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The members of the two criminal organizations were arrested on Friday in by the Naples Department of Prevention of Organized Crime.
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American and Italian authorities arrested dozens of people Thursday&#13;&#10;in a takedown of what they called a trans-Atlantic drug trafficking&#13;&#10;operation run by the Mafia
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Police on Monday captured the top boss of a powerful organized crime syndicate whose clan feuds have bloodied southern Italy for years, authorities said Monday.
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Police raided sites in Calabria on Wednesday and issued arrest warrants for 57 people Â including politicians, bankers and businessmen Â in the latest mafia sweep targeting drug trafficking and extortion rackets.