In many parts of Calabria, the memory of the majistre, traditional textile mentors, is still alive. Historically, only women knew how to prepare the weaving looms. They were also the only ones who ...

A documentary film series on the Italian Mafia Cosa Nostra, exploring its codes, exploring its activities, witnessing its trials, including the 1986 Maxi Trial.

Calabria – which is shaped like a rasher of bacon and stretches from just below Naples (where the Camorra hold sway) down as far as the tip of the boot, a few miles off Sicily (featuring the better ...

A court in Reggio Calabria - a city on the toe of the Italian boot - had issued an arrest warrant for 34 people, including high-ranking members of several Calabrian mafia clans, for international drug ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italian police have seized more than 4 tonnes of cocaine worth 1 billion euros ($1.13 billion) on the street and arrested dozens of people suspected of running a huge mafia drug ...