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Arrest of the most wanted mafioso in Italy, Matteo Messina Denaro
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Steph Deschamps / January 16, 2023
Italy’s most wanted mobster, Sicilian Matteo Messina Denaro, on the run for 30 years, has been arrested in Palermo, Sicily, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini announced Monday.
Matteo Messina Denaro, 60, is considered the successor of the great historical leaders of Cosa Nostra, Toto Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, who died in prison in 2016 and 2017.
“After 30 years on the run, the superboss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested. It is with great emotion that I thank the women and men of the state who never gave up, confirming the rule that sooner or later even the greatest criminals on the run are arrested,” Salvini reacted on whatsapp.
This is a great day for Italy and serves as a warning to the mafia: the institutions and our heroes in uniform never give up,” concluded Salvini.
“Today, January 16, the carabinieri (…) arrested the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro inside a health facility in Palermo where he had gone to undergo clinical therapies,” said Carabinieri General Pasquale Angelosanto to the AGI agency.
On the Ministry of the Interior’s list of the six most wanted criminals in Italy, Matteo Messina Denaro, born in April 1962 near Trapani, Sicily, is in first place.
A former Cosa Nostra triggerman, he was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for murder. But the only known photo of him dates back to the early 1990s.
For many years, hundreds of police officers and carabinieri have been involved in the hunt for Italy’s most notorious fugitive.
Since the 2000s, the Italian police have increased the number of arrests and seizures of property in his entourage, in a strategy of isolation that has taken almost 20 years to bear fruit, as his support network was so large.
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Sylvie Claire / September 23, 2023
At least 25 people, including two children, died when a bus crashed into a ravine in the Andean region of Huancavelica, in southern Peru, the authorities announced in a revised death toll on Monday evening.
An initial police report put the death toll at 20, with a further 35 injured. A statement from the Ministry of Health later that morning put the death toll at 24. Finally, at the end of the day on Monday, the death toll stood at “25 dead and 34 wounded”, according to the Ministry of Defense.
The accident occurred on Sunday night, when the bus carrying over 50 passengers from Huanta in Ayacucho to Huancayo in the Junin region ran off the road.
Images show the damaged bus lying on its side near a river below the ravine, debris and personal belongings strewn all around.
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte expressed her “condolences to the families” from New York, where she will be attending the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations. The Peruvian Episcopal Conference, for its part, urged the government to “carry out a serious investigation” to prevent such accidents from happening again.
On August 13, another accident in the same region left 13 people dead and 5 seriously injured.
Road accidents are frequent in Peru, mainly due to speeding and poor road maintenance, especially in mountainous areas.
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Sylvie Claire / September 17, 2023
In Japan, the number of people aged 100 has reached a record level: the world’s third-largest economy now has 92,139 people aged 100 or over. That’s 1,613 more than a year ago, reported the Ministry of Health in Tokyo on Friday.
For over half a century, the number of people aged 100 has been rising every year. Due to a low birth rate and almost non-existent immigration, no other industrial state is aging as fast as this East Asian country.
Japan’s population is also shrinking at a record pace. Last year, the number of Japanese fell by 801,000, the biggest drop since comparable data have been recorded. There are now 122.4 million.
When the Japanese Ministry of Health began compiling statistics in 1963, there were 153 centenarians. Twenty-five years later, there were over 10,000. According to the latest figures, around 88% of centenarians are women. Japan has the longest life expectancy in the world. Life expectancy for women is around 87 years, and 81 for men.
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Steph Deschamps / September 17, 2023
The death toll from the earthquake in Morocco has risen to 2,946, the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior announced on Wednesday evening. A further 5,674 people were injured.
The previous death toll was 2,901. The death toll is expected to rise further. Hopes of finding survivors are now very slim. Rescue workers have not yet been able to reach all the villages affected in the Atlas Mountains.
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the country on Friday night. The epicenter was located some 80 kilometers southwest of Marrakech. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 300,000 people in and around Marrakech were affected by the disaster.
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