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CASTELVETRANO, Italy, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who once claimed to have murdered enough people to fill a cemetery, was laid to rest on Wednesday in his ...

Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia's most heinous slayings, died on Monday in a hospital prison ward, several months after being captured as Italy's No. 1 ...

Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, captured in January after three decades on the run, has died in hospital in central Italy, the ANSA news agency reported Monday. he 61-year-old had colon ...

"After the attacks against the judges, then those committed outside Sicily, in which he was a key participant, Matteo Messina Denaro returned to Cosa Nostra's traditional strategy of thriving far ...

Convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run, Italian paramilitary police said. Messina Denaro was ...

PALERMO, Italy, July 11 (Reuters) - The eldest sister of late Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for aggravated mafia association and receiving ...

Nine bosses linked to the infamous Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro were released in October on furlough or for good behaviour by the Palermo court of appeals. Among those released are ...

Matteo Messina Denaro, the superboss of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, was a no-show for his first court date meant to be via video link from maximum security prison on Thursday. The mobster ...

Police officers prevent access to mafia boss Messina Denaro's hideout in Campobello di Mazara, Sicily. Photo by Miguel MEDINA / AFP) Notorious Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, captured in ...