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 ...

President Nikos Christodoulides testified on Thursday in the inquiry into the content of a book by investigative journalist Makarios Drousiotis, Mafia State, in which he refers to the former and ...

Ekurhuleni is transitioning from sporadic crime to a deeply entrenched system of corruption, mirroring the notorious influence of Colombian drug cartels.

Several weeks have gone by and there have been no press notices that Yevgeny Prigozhin has “fallen” out of a high rise window. Instead, the Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin and ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's justice minister on Monday promised a full investigation into allegations that governments in the early 1990s held secret negotiations with the Mafia to try to stop spate of ...

ROME, April 27 (Reuters) - Italy's highest court on Thursday upheld acquittal verdicts in a major mafia trial based on allegations that the state had colluded with Sicilian mobsters after a deadly ...

Mafia states, dubious relations, and net errors and omissions... Drugs seized at customs don't show that the fight against drugs is good in Turkey but the things are getting worse and worse.

U.S. State Department cables from Russia, recently released by WikiLeaks, portray the country as crippled by rampant corruption at all levels. The cables also portray Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in ...

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni slammed claims that South Africa is a Mafia state during a media briefing on ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after a crackdown by prosecutors decimated the ranks of the New York Mafia, the indictment of an NBA coach, a player and nearly three dozen others in a betting scandal ...

Over the past few weeks, both Thailand and the United States have ratcheted up the pressure on Cambodia, each seeking to influence the kingdom’s behavior in line with their respective domestic ...

To the extent that foreign crises helped shape the outcome of November’s U.S. presidential election, it wasn’t the ones in Gaza and Ukraine that had the strongest effect. It was, instead, those closer ...