Mexican drug lord El Chapo sentenced to life in US prison

Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been sentenced to life behind bars in a US prison, a humbling end for a crime lord once notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or tunnel his way out of trouble. A federal judge in Brooklyn handed down the sentence on Wednesday, five months after Guzman’s conviction in an epic drug-trafficking case. The 62-year-old, who had been protected in Mexico by an army of gangsters and an elaborate corruption operation, was...

Rome police evict Italian and migrant squatters from former school

Italian police have evicted migrants and others from an abandoned former school on Rome’s outskirts in the latest operation to empty occupied buildings of migrants and squatters. Residents set fire to mattresses and other rubbish to form a barrier and prevent riot police from entering the building. Squatters set fire to a barricade created outside the abandoned school on the outskirts of Rome (Massimo Percossi/ANSA via AP) But authorities doused the blaze and proceeded with the eviction. Interior minister Matteo...

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