L'AQUILA, Italy, April 17 (UPI) -- Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has promised that the Mafia would be excluded from reconstruction of towns devastated by last week's earthquake.

PERUGIA, Italy, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Italian police arrested more than 50 people Wednesday in connection with organized crime activity geared toward taking control over the southern Umbria region.

ROME, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Italian police said they arrested dozens of people involved in an alleged Nigerian drug- and human-trafficking ring.

PALERMO, Italy, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Police in Italy arrested a suspect Monday who is believed to be the head of the Cosa Nostra crime group.

ROME, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Police in Italy Thursday arrested 33 alleged members of two Calabrian Mafia families caught up in a long bloody feud.

ROME, March 28 (UPI) -- The head of Italy's anti-Mafia operations says a submarine a gangster group was building in Colombia to transport drugs has been impounded.