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 setbacks in recent decades. “Cosa Nostra,” the mafia syndicate based in and around Palermo, terrorized Italy in the 1980s and…
More than 100 fishermen were rescued from a sheet of floating ice that drifted into waters off Russia’s remote…
Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England…
Romania’s outgoing centrist president, Klaus Iohannis, resigned on Monday as opposition hard-right parliamentary parties planned to have him impeached.…
Israeli police raided two Palestinian bookstores in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday, confiscating books and arresting one of the…
India’s religious minorities have faced a “staggering” rise in hate speech over the past year, including from top leaders…
A bus veered off a highway bridge into a polluted ravine in Guatemala City early on Monday, killing at…
Hamas has said the next hostage release scheduled to take place in Gaza on Saturday will be postponed, accusing…
China has unveiled sweeping new regulations to tighten the release of information about its military online, a move that…