ROME — Italian police officers on Tuesday arrested 181 people believed to be affiliated with the Cosa Nostra, as the Sicilian mafia is known, dealing what officials said was an “important blow ...

Matteo Messina Denaro, the convicted mastermind of some of the Cosa Nostra mafia's most heinous slayings, died in Sept. 2023, several months after being captured as Italy's No. 1 fugitive and ...

Mafia bosses have been secretly moaning about the "miserable" quality of recruits leaving them "on our knees" -- while dreaming it could be more like "The Godfather." ...

A total of 183 people were arrested on Tuesday in Palermo, the capital of Sicily (Italy), in a significant security forces operation that dismantled a new attempt to rebuild the Cosa Nostra dome ...

Rome (Reuters) — Around 130 people were arrested on Tuesday in a large-scale sting against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, indicating that it has remained a significant criminal force despite ...

Italian police arrested 181 suspected mafia members in a massive raid against cosa nostra in palermo. the operation, involving 1,200 officers, targeted high-ranking bosses, extortionists, and drug ...

Around 130 people were arrested on Tuesday in a large-scale sting against the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo, indicating that it has remained a significant criminal force despite setbacks in recent ...

At the time, the Cosa Nostra had no tolerance for divorcees, children of divorcees, lovers of prostitutes or drugs, individuals living an unstable life or homosexuals. Denaro did not create a dynasty.

However, Cosa Nostra is not the group it once was. While it retains control of its Sicilian territory and a capacity to infiltrate the broader economy, it has been supplanted in the drugs trade by ...

July 14 (UPI) --Britain's drinks regulator has given retailers three months to halt sales of a Poland-supplied "Cosa Nostra" branded whiskey with a bottle in the shape of a Thompson sub-machine ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Italian police have arrested 160 members of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, after wiretaps revealed moves by mafia ...