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Mexican Journalists Disappear

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has released a report on its website detailing the disappearances of seven journalists in Mexico over the past two years.

 

Croatia Pursues Organized Crime

Less than a week after Croatia's prime minister responded to the murder of the daughter of a prominent Zagreb attorney by sacking his justice and interior ministers, the country's parliament appointed successors and the government mounted a new offensive against organized cime.

Angola Arms Trial in France Opens

Forty-two people, including a wealthy Jerusalem mayoral candidate and the son of late French President Francois Mitterand, went on trial in Paris this week on charges they were involved in selling hundreds of millions of dollars in arms in the 1990s to warring Angolans.

Djukanovic Indicted; Avoids Trial

Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Đukanović’s name was nowhere to be seen last week when Italian prosecutors filed charges in a tobacco-smuggling case that named seven Serbian and Montenegrin nationals, including several of Đukanović’s close associates.

Bout Appears at Extradition Hearings in Bangkok

Viktor Bout, the notorious illegal arms merchant known as the Merchant of Death, appeared in shackles at a Bangkok court last week for hearings on his extradition to the US on terrorism charges.

30 Arrested in Camorra Crackdown

Italian police arrested 29 people in the Naples area Tuesday in a crackdown on the Camorra mob after the killings of an Italian businessman and six African immigrants earlier last month.

Montenegro’s Kalic questioned in plot, released

An alleged drug lord in northern Montenegro was questioned over the weekend for renting an apartment to 10 men who were later arrested on suspicion of plotting to kill a person police did not name in the capital Podgorica, reported the local press.