LISBON (Reuters) - New gangs are muscling into cocaine markets in Europe, setting up smuggling networks straight from producers in Latin America to consumers, a business which used to be dominated by ...

The alleged scheme involved turning ashes with illegal levels of pollutants into products. Read more at straitstimes.com.

From armed gangs posing as police and detonating explosives in broad daylight, to thieves smashing their way into world-famous galleries, violent robberies have become an alarmingly regular occurrence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Europol swoop targets pan-European gang charging up to €15,000 for fake luxury wine Simultaneous raids by French, Italian and ...

From spectacular smash-and-grabs to stealthy lone thieves, sophisticated crime networks have carried out a wave of high-profile jewelry heists in... For European Gangs, A Gem Of A Growth Industry: ...

Across Europe, criminal gangs are becoming more powerful and their recruits are getting younger. The authorities are struggling to respond. In Sweden, gang warfare has been raging for years, driven by ...

SANTOS, Brazil (Reuters) - Years of rooting out drugs at the Brazilian seaport of Santos had given customs inspector Oswaldo Dias a good nose for suspicious cargo. A shipment of second-hand backhoes, ...

Gardai have worked with European police forces to prevent more than a dozen murder plots in Ireland and in Europe, it can be revealed today. A Garda detective on secondment at Europol tells the Irish ...

AMSTERDAM—Organized crime used to be considered a remote threat in much of Western Europe, but ruthless violence by criminal gangs is now rattling the peace in some of the world’s safest societies.

Sweden has been turned into the European Union's gun-homicide capital after becoming the stage of dozens of deadly shootings over the past few years. Across 2022, 62 people were killed in shootings ...