Speaking to an enormous crowd last August in Mobile, Alabama, Donald Trump expounded on a key part of his foreign-policy agenda: getting allies like South Korea, Japan, and Germany to pay America for ...

According to Moisés Naím's essay "Mafia States" (May/June 2012), the world now faces a grave "new threat": governments that have been taken over by organized crime. These "mafia states" are so ...

ROME – The recently arrested head of the Mafia has appointed as his successor a trigger-happy playboy who has been on the run for 13 years. The promotion of Matteo “Diabolik” Messina Denaro, 43, was ...

ROME — The Mafia made $112 million a day last year in Italy through protection rackets, bribes, and illegal money lending, according to a new report. The SOS Impresa report, which is compiled from ...

More than a year has sped by since, at Premier Mussolini’s orders, the dread Mafia (or Black Hand organization) was hunted down on the island of Sicily, captured, jailed. For centuries the Mafia ...

Former President Mwai Kibaki, Founding President Jomo Kenyatta and then Sec Gen Tom Mboya when they celebrated KANU win in 1963. [File, Standard] Some 53 years ago today, Kenya lost Tom Mboya to ...