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Mafia boss accused of ordering hit on his daughter over policeman lover  

View of Palermo. Mafia boss Pino Scaduto, head of the Bagheria syndicate near the Sicilian capital, tried to have his daughter murdered prosectors say. A Sicilian mafia boss who ordered the assassination of his daughter from behind bars because she was in love with a policeman has been arrested – after his son refused to carry out the hit. Godfather Pino Scaduto began blaming his earlier arrest and conviction on his daughter’s burgeoning relationship with a senior Italian policeman. Investigators scouring his prison correspondence discovered chilling references to a specific “gift” he wanted to give to his daughter. Read more HERE.

Published on 31/10/2017 @ 13h32  |
$2bn EU-AFRICA 'ANTI-MIGRATION' FUND TOO OPAQUE, say critics  

Eritrean migrants jump into the water during a rescue operation near the Libyan coast in August 2016.The European Union has been urged to shed more light on how it is spending emergency money intended to curb mass migration from Africa to Europe.

In a report to be published next month, Oxfam will call on the European commission to boost transparency of the EU-Africa emergency trust fund, which was created by EU leaders in 2015 to stem the flow of people making the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to Italy. The fund has made €1.9bn (£1.67bn) available for 117 projects in 26 African countries...Read more HERE.

Published on 31/10/2017 @ 13h26  |