Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Pasquale Mazzarella and Clemente Amodio arrested in Marbella

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  TWO Italians belonging to the Mazzarella mafia family were arrested in Malaga for their alleged involvement in drug trafficking activities...

Spain's most famous judge, the charismatic and controversial investigating magistrate Baltasar Garzón, sat in the dock at the country's supreme court

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  Spain's most famous judge, the charismatic and controversial investigating magistrate Baltasar Garzón, sat in the dock at the country...

Captain ordered back onto boat by port officials

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   Mr Schettino 'attempted to take a taxi away from the scene' • Crew 'began evacuation before captain's orders' • Numbe...
Sunday, 15 January 2012

Thousands of children are being "needlessly dumped in prison" because of Britain's failing youth justice system

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  Thousands of children are being "needlessly dumped in prison" because of Britain's failing youth justice system, a think-tan...

Michael Brown: From £1.6m villa to prison yard, downfall of the Lib Dem fraudster

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  The knock at the door did not unduly disturb the man relaxing on the terrace of the £1.6 million villa overlooking the Caribbean. Even whe...
Saturday, 14 January 2012

celebrity gangster-turned-author has been banned from the road after being caught more than one-and-a-half times the drink-drive limit

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David Courtney A celebrity gangster-turned-author has been banned from the road after being caught more than one-and-a-half times the drink-...
Thursday, 12 January 2012

US Marines identify 'urination' troops

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  At least two of four US Marines shown in a video appearing to urinate on Taliban corpses have been identified, a Marine Corps official has...

U.S. Marines video

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At least two of four US Marines shown in a video appearing to urinate on Taliban corpses have been identified, a Marine Corps official has t...

Five men have been arrested on suspicion of fraudulent transactions from accounts held at Bristol-based stockbroker Rowan Dartington

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  The arrests have been confirmed by Avon and Somerset Constabulary, which said that the men aged 45, 36, 49, 57 and 23 have all been bailed...

Cargo ship runs aground off Sweden, crew suspected drunk

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  The captain and helmsman are both suspected of being under the influence of alcohol and we have launched an inquiry," coast guard spo...
Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Outspoken Moroccan rapper awaits assault verdict

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  A Moroccan rapper who has become one of the monarchy's boldest critics on Wednesday awaited a verdict after a trial on assault charges...

Officer finds own parents Avtar and Carole Kolar killed in ‘revenge attack’

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  The unnamed son went round to see Avtar Kolar, 62, and his wife Carole, 58, after they failed to answer his morning phone call. ‘It was o...

Breast implant scandal: taxpayers face £100 million bill

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  Harley Medical Group (HMG), responsible for one in three operations using the French-made implants, said it would go out of business if ma...

Iran car explosion kills nuclear scientist in Tehran

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  BBC's Mohsen Asgari: "It seems a motor cyclist pasted a bomb to his car which he was in with two other passengers Continue readin...

Once powerful Mexican drug lord Benjamin Arellano Felix pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday to drug trafficking, racketeering and money laundering charges

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  . Arellano Felix, 58, was the head of the feared Tijuana cartel run by his brothers and operated on the Mexico-U.S. border near San Diego...

Drug smuggling bid foiled

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  Customs at the airport foiled an attempt by one Egyptian expatriate arriving from Cairo to smuggle 1,000 narcotic pills into the country. ...

Drug smuggling compartment specialist sentenced to 24 years

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A California man who specialized in building secret compartments in vehicles used to smuggle drugs received a 24-year sentence in what prose...
Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Mexico: Reporter Gunned Down In Los Zetas Stronghold

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  Raúl Régulo Garza Quirino, a reporter for the weekly La Última Palabra in Cadereyta, in the northeastern state of Nuevo León, became the f...

Undercover agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, working with their Mexican counterparts, helped transfer millions of dollars in drug cash and even escorted a shipment of cocaine via Dallas to Spain

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  The covert activities were undertaken as part of an operation to infiltrate and prosecute a major Colombian-Mexican narco-trafficking orga...
Saturday, 24 December 2011

Four senior British police officers are under investigation over allegations of misconduct for partaking in a gangland killing case, news reports said.

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Staffordshire Police launched an inquiry into the murder of amateur footballer Kevin Nunes, 20, who was gunned down in a country lane in 200...
Thursday, 22 December 2011

teenager who murdered a 16-year-old schoolboy outside a pub in Stretford has denied his motive was revenge for another gangland killing.

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  A teenager who murdered a 16-year-old schoolboy outside a pub in Stretford has denied his motive was revenge for another gangland killing....
Monday, 19 December 2011

Brits who invested their savings in their adopted countries may not be able to withdraw cash and could even lose their homes if banks call in loans

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Marbella, Andalusia, Spain (pic: Getty) EMERGENCY evacuation plans for Brits living in Spain and Portugal are being drawn up amid fears of t...

Spanish king forced son-in-law to quit job in 2006

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    King Juan Carlos told his son-in-law in 2006 to cut ties with a company now mired in corruption allegations, an official at Spain's ...
Saturday, 17 December 2011

Spain's longest-serving inmate received a government pardon yesterday that saw him and his family convinced that he would walk free immediately

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After 35 years in jail and eight successful breakout attempts, Spain's longest-serving inmate received a government pardon yesterday tha...
Sunday, 11 December 2011

Spanish, Italian police smash drug smuggling ring

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  Spanish and Italian police made five arrests while busting a drug-trafficking ring that for years smuggled cocaine from South America to E...

father of three was killed in bed near his sleeping wife and children when his house was sprayed with bullets in a drive-by shooting

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  Oakland police say a father of three was killed in bed near his sleeping wife and children when his house was sprayed with bullets in a dr...
Wednesday, 7 December 2011

The alleged members of the Dominican-based Trinitarios gang all face charges of racketeering, narcotics conspiracy and gun trafficking

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Suspects accused of selling guns and drugs. Authorities collared 38 Bronx and upper Manhattan gangbangers Wednesday after a two-year probe i...

Glenn Mulcaire, the private eye at the centre of the News of the World phone hacking scandal, has been arrested

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  Glenn Mulcaire, the private eye at the centre of the News of the World phone hacking scandal, has been arrested by Scotland Yard detective...
Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Wife found Gary Speed's body, inquest hears

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  Wales football manager Gary Speed was found hanged at his home by his wife, an inquest was told today. The 42-year-old father-of-two was ...
Saturday, 26 November 2011

TWO families are rejoicing after two men held in a Spanish prison were set free after four-and-a-half months

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  Kyle Thain, 24, and James Harris, 29, have been released on bail from Font Calent jail in Alicante. This has left family members and frien...