The former chief of the Communist Party in the Chinese megacity of Chongqing, Bo Xilai, has been sacked - but that's not enough to satisfy his alleged victims. The anti-mafia campaign he oversaw from 2007 left 4,000 people in prison, but critics say not all of those were members of the mafia. They argue the mafia drive was a front for Bo to get rid of his rivals and siphon off their finances. Yet Bo still has supporters willing to defend him in the face of Chinese censorship.
Italian police arrested the most senior boss of the Camorra mafia still at large on Wednesday, ending his 16 years on the run. The 53-year-old, who has been sentenced to multiple life terms in prison, was discovered in a secret bunker in Naples.
First, Greeks are leaving big city unemployment behind, but with what consequences? Next, Poles go to the polls and make Donald Tusk the first Prime Minister to win a second term since the end of Communism. Finally, we find out why one Italian priest in Naples now has to have his own bodyguard.
Some 150,000 people marched into Mexico City on Sunday to protest the violence resulting from President Felipe Calderon's crackdown on the country's powerful drug cartels, that claimed 1,402 lives in April alone.
Italian police seized more than one billion euros in assets in an operation against the Polverino mafia in Naples, police said Thursday. The announcement follows the arrest of 39 alleged clan members earlier in the week.
Police in Germany and Italy arrested 35 alleged mafia members in a raid on Italy’s powerful 'Ndrangheta syndicate Tuesday and issued warrants for the arrest of five others. The group has an estimated annual turnover of tens of billions of euros.
The days when the Mafia ruled Sicily could soon be just a memory. The Catturandi are an elite police force with the sole objective of rounding up members of the mob, many of whom have been on the run for years. The officers are all local to Sicily and their dedication to the job has won the hearts of residents and gained their support in hunting down Mafia criminals.
FBI agents arrested 127 alleged mafia members in and around New York early Thursday in a massive crackdown on the region's six major mafia “families”. Collectively, the detainees are charged with 127 offenses, including murder and extortion.
British police face embarrassing security questions after the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, is caught up in a rowdy student protest. In the UK, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange insists he's the victim of conspiracy theories, and in the Netherlands, we discover one man's tale of rags to riches - from life on the streets to a potential fortune of millions.
Wikileaks reveals a prosecutor's claims that Russia regularly uses the mafia for operations it could ‘not acceptably do as a government’ and that the mafia exerts ‘tremendous control’ over vital components of the global economy.
