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The Sicilian mafia is in the corner where the blows fall. This week, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini declared that the Italian mafia will only be...

Pope Francis has called on the Mafiosi in Sicily to give up their lives full of crime and violence and to opt for love. The prince of the Church said that members of organized crime, who are mostly practicing Catholics, 'can not believe in God and can be Mafiosi at the same time.'

Rescue workers found three hikers alive after the drama in a ravine in Calabria. They turned out to be camping north of the crash site. The young people of 21, 22 and 23 did not have access to their mobile phones there, local sources say to the ANSA news agency.

At least five hikers were killed after they were dragged along by rising water in the south of Italy. The victims were in a ravine in Calabria. Heavy rainfall caused the water to rise in a stream, reports Italian media.

The inhabitants in the village of Careri in the southern Italian Calabria, at the tip of the boot, all agree. The Sikhs, those are hard workers. They arrived about ten years ago and always work on the land every morning from five to one o'clock.

About two hundred members of one of the most notorious Mafia abbeys in Italy were arrested during a joint anti-mafia operation in Italy and Germany.

The Italian police arrested tens of thousands of suspects in a major operation against the mafia in three cities and seized over 50 million euros of property. That happened in actions in Reggio Calabria, Naples and Florence.

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The Italian mafia is increasingly taking the area to Germany. By raising the struggle by the Italian justice against the criminal organization, the ground in Italy becomes too hot under the feet of the mafia members. The German police have a list with the names of 562 Italian criminals.

In Rome, the brother of Queen Paola of Belgium passed away. Prince Antonello Ruffo di Calabria became 87 years, reports the VRT based on Italian media.

Natural fires are keeping Italy in control. Two deadly victims were reported on Monday. Firemen found, according to press agency Ansa, in extinction near Tivoli, not far from Rome, the bodies of two older women. The small house in which they stayed was enclosed by the fire. A third person was brought to a hospital in shock and with a poison poisoning.

The Italian police struck a big blow in Tuesday's fight against the mafia. No less than 116 members of more than twenty different clans of the Ndrangheta were arrested in the Calabrian region, reported Italian media. A thousand police officers were involved in the operation and were assisted by helicopters, detective dogs and specialized military units.

Almost ten years after the infamous Mafia murders in Duisburg, Germany in Italy caught a fugitive offenders. The boss of the 'Ndrangheta, Santo Vottari, was discovered hiding in a bunker in Calabria and arrested Wednesday in the southern Italian region.

Hundreds of thousands of Italians have demonstrated Tuesday against the Mafia. Across the country people took to the streets to commemorate the innocent victims of organized crime. Especially the march through the city Locri in the Calabria region, where the notorious' Ndrangheta has a strong presence, received much attention. Some 25,000 people were there along in a protest march.

Italian police have rounded up an international drug gang that wanted to smuggle cocaine from Colombia to Italy for 1.6 billion euros. Police arrested 68 people.

The notorious' Ndrangheta in the southern Italian region of Calabria cooperates with IS. The organization supplying weapons to the Islamic terrorist group in exchange for valuable archaeological objects that IS has captured in Arab countries. This allows the Italian newspaper La Stampa following a report by its reporter Domenico Quirico. In the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria, where the cocaine where the 'Ndrangheta acts enters the archaeological treasures by IS captured sorted.

Following their Italian colleagues will also make short work of the Spanish authorities with beachgoers who reserve a place in the early morning and then hours later to return.

Tourists lay a towel to assure themselves of the best spot on the beach can be ejected from now rationed. The Italians have had enough.

Italian police have arrested a gang of counterfeiters and seized in several raids in 2000 tons 'wrong' olive oil. The eight defendants made it appear as if the Italian olive oil was made, but in reality there were fruits from Spain and Greece in processing.

The Italian police on Friday arrested in the city of Reggio di Calabria two main bosses of the Mafia.

Police in Costa Rica have arrested seven suspected members of a drug gang. The suspects are from Costa Rica and Cuba. The gang is intertwined with the Mafia from Italy's Calabria. The investigation group was initiated after it was found in the Netherlands last year 3.5 tons of cocaine in a container from Costa Rica, the newspaper Diario Extra reported Thursdays.