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The acting head of a powerful Italian crime family is captured by police after he was found hiding in a secret compartment of a closet in his house.
Journalists gather outside the courtroom in Italy's southern Calabrian town of Lamezia Terme, where the largest mafia trial in more than 30 years is set to begin. IMAGES outside the court
Two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh were recovered by anti-Mafia police in Naples last week, nearly 14 years after they were stolen from a museum in Amsterdam. Footage from the Italian Guardia di Finanza shows the discovery of the paintings after they were hidden in one of the houses of an international drug trafficker in Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples during a sting operation targeting organised crime. In 2002, the paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, after thieves used a ladder and sledgehammer to break into the building. The works were valued at €89 million, or about $100 million, at the time. The masterpieces - View of the Sea at Scheveningen (1882) and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuene (1884) - were painted early in the artists's career.
Italian police stage a dramatic raid on a cocaine laboratory, arresting two local mafia members and three Colombian citizens as well as nearly $3.5 million of contraband. Ashraf Fahim reports.
After years of evading capture, two high ranking members of a Calabria-based mafia group have finally been caught after authorities found their hideout deep in the mountains.
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