Italian police have arrested top fugitive Pasquale Russo, on the run since 1993, with his brother Carmine in a dawn raid the day after a third brother Salvatore was found holed up in a chicken farm.
Italian police have arrested Salvatore Russo, one of the country's most wanted mafia fugitives, after tearing down a wall in a dawn raid at a chicken farm where he had built a hideout, authorities said.
Italian authorities have found a wreck with over 120 barrels of radioactive waste around 28 kilometres from the coast of Calabria in southern Italy. As many as 32 ships carrying toxic waste have been sunk by the mafia in the Mediterranean.
Italian police have arrested 68 Neapolitan mafia suspects wanted for murder, drug trafficking and money laundering in one of the largest crackdowns on organised crime in recent years.
Salvatore Coluccio, one of Italy's 30 most dangerous fugitives, was arrested by police on Sunday. Authorities believe he is the head of a powerful mafia crime family in the region of Calabria.
More than 100,000 people have marched in Naples in one of the biggest anti-mafia rallies in recent years to commemorate the victims of organised crime and demand an end to its stranglehold on southern Italy.
Two former New York cops have been sentenced to life in prison in a sordid tale of murder, attempted murder, blackmail, drug trafficking, money laundering and passing information onto a local mafia family, prosecutors said.
Police in the Spanish capital Madrid say they have arrested Antonio Caiazzo, the alleged "historic godfather" of the Neapolitan Camorra mafia's Vomero clan, and his henchman Francesco Simeoli (pictured).
Italian police have arrested one of the most influential bosses of the Napolitan mafia, the Camorra. Giuseppe Setola is suspected of ordering the killing of six African immigrants last September.
Groups idolising Mafia bosses have appeared on the social Internet site Facebook in recent weeks, attracting numerous young fans. The online controversy has caused a stir in Italy, where a petition is calling for the closure of the site.
