(ANSA) - PAVIA, APR 27 - Italian police on Tuesday arrested
some 15 people including eight Peruvians and seven Italians in a
probe into a suspected drug trafficking gang linked to the
Calabria-based Ndrangheta mafia.
Police said the gang was dedicated to importing cocaine from
South America, the main source of Ndrangheta s vast income.
Suspected gang members were arrested in Milan, Pavia, Monza
Brianza and Rome.
Police said the gang brought the cocaine into Italy from Peru
via Spain.
It was then passed on to Ndrangheta clans based in Lombardy and
Calabria, police said.
Police seized assets worth over 50 million euros in the probe.
15 arrests in Ndrangheta-linked drug trafficking gang
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2020 was the worst year on record for tourism. Around the world, international arrivals plummeted by 74 per cent. The start of 2021 proved similarly dire: in January, tourist numbers were 87 per cent down on the same month in 2020.
Shuttered borders, no-go lists and grounded planes have not simply put our holidays on hold: they have, at least temporarily, destroyed the livelihoods of many visitor-dependent communities. Some 100-120 million tourism jobs have been put at risk. To ease this strain, many destinations have sought novel ways to win back visitors – from Covid immunisations with a side of luxury, to long-stay schemes, complete with a personal tour guide.
This gilded bronze detail from the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence, Tuscany, shows Cain killing Abel. DeAgostini/Getty Images
The biblical story of Cain and Abel runs only 17 short verses in the book of Genesis, but it contains a significant number of firsts : Earth s first pair of siblings, God s first mention of sin, and most famously the first act of murder in human history.
Whether or not you believe that these two brothers ever existed, the morality tale of Cain and Abel is a foundational myth of Western culture. Rabbi Dan Ornstein of Congregation Ohav Shalom in Albany, New York, says that Cain and Abel remain so fascinating and relevant today because it s more than a cautionary tale about the dangers of sibling rivalry. The story functions as a mirror that all readers religious or not can use to reflect on our own thoughts and actions.