A bomb blast outside a school in the south Italian city of Brindisi kills a teenage girl and injures five other people, at least one seriously. A bomb exploded in front of a girls’ school in southern Italy, killing a 16-year-old girl and wounding seven others with suspicion quickly falling on the local Mafia. The explosion, near the entrance of a school named after the wife of murdered anti-Mafia judge…

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s army said it had detained a third general for questioning on Thursday, hours after a judge placed the two other officers under a form of house arrest pending an investigation for possible links to the Beltran Leyva drug cartel. A Defense Department statement did not say specifically whether retired Gen. Ricardo Escorcia was detained in connection with same allegations pending against the other two generals, who…

Italian police on Friday confiscated assets worth 330 million euros ($419 million) including 256 properties and a rich art collection from a jailed mob businessman dubbed the “King of Videopoker”. Gioacchino Campolo, 72, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison last year, ammassed a fortune for over a decade by running tricked slot machines and had a collection of 119 works including a Salvador Dali painting in his home….

Two alleged members of ‘Sanghera crime group’ acquitted. A B.C. Supreme Court judge has convicted three of five men facing dozens of weapons charges in connection to a violent gang war in Vancouver. Boby, Navdip and Savdip Sanghera were convicted of a variety of weapons charges including possession of a prohibited weapon and unlawfully being in a vehicle with a firearm. Charanjit Rangi and Jaspreet Virk were acquitted on all…

  HE SAYS he’s going to hell for whacking a former nun, but Colombo crime boss Thomas Gioeli is still on speaking terms with God. In his first public statement since a Brooklyn jury acquitted him of six gangland murders last week, Tommy Shots blogged from prison that he owes the stunning verdict to divine intervention. He gave no credit to his defense team. Of course, the jury knew Gioeli…

An admitted Italian gangster has said that the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee was killed in 1983 because a criminal gang was irate over the loss of funds deposited in the Vatican bank. In an interview with the daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, Antonio Mancini, a former member of the Magliana gang, said that young Emanuela Orlandi was kidnapped after Mafia figures learned that they had lost “more than 200…

Mexico City – Investigators are questioning Mexico’s former deputy defence minister and a top army general for suspected links to organised crime, in the highest level scandal to hit the military in the five-year-old drug war. Mexican soldiers on Tuesday detained retired general Tomas Angeles Dauahare and general Roberto Dawe Gonzalez and turned them over to the country’s organised crime unit, military and government officials said. Dauahare served as No….