Italian police arrested almost 150 people Tuesday in a major operation against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, areas of which remain in the grip of powerful Cosa Nostra clans. Warrants were issued ...

Italian police have arrested 181 people in a crackdown on the Sicilian mafia. Authorities launched a series of raids early on Tuesday, detaining suspected members of the mafia for alleged crimes ...

Writing on X later on Tuesday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said the arrests were "a very hard blow to Cosa Nostra" and that "organised crime is in trouble". "The fight against the mafia ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, writing on X, hailed Tuesday’s arrests as inflicting “a very hard blow to Cosa Nostra,” and giving a clear signal that “the fight against the mafia ...

Crime bosses from Cosa Nostra, the Italian island’s notorious mafia, unfavourably compared the new generation of mafiosi to those of the past, invoking the example of The Godfather, the classic ...

Italian police have arrested 181 suspects in a major anti-mafia operation conducted in Palermo, Sicily. Italy’s Carabinieri police force said those arrested were accused of attempted murder, extortion ...

Italian police have launched a series of raids targeting Mafia clans operating in and around the Sicilian capital Palermo. More than 1,2000 officers were involved in the operation, which the ...

The climate crisis is pouring gasoline on these blazes, but the Mafia may be lighting the spark, according to new research. While hot, dry winds prime the land for Italy’s ferocious fires ...

Italian police arrested almost 150 people Tuesday in a major operation against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, areas of which remain in the grip of powerful Cosa Nostra clans. Warrants were issued ...

File photo of Italian police carrying out a 'sweep' operation against mafia clans in Palermo in 2008. Photo by MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO / AFP Over 1,200 officers were mobilised at dawn as part of the ...