See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Italy's highest court has ruled that 86-year-old Mafia boss and ...

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Salvatore “the Beast” Riina, the Sicilian mafia godfather who ordered the killings of judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, as well as politicians and mobsters, has died. He had turned 87 the ...

Former Sicilian Mafia godfather Salvatore "Toto" Riina — who ordered the murder of Italian prosecutors and law enforcement officials who tried to bring him down — died Friday in the prison wing of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Salvatore “Toto” Riina, once leader of the Sicilian mafia, has died in a prison hospital at the age of 87. In Italy, reaction to ...

Nov. 17 (UPI) --The imprisoned former leader of the Cosa Nostra mafia in Sicily died Friday in a hospital for prisoners. He was 87. Salvatore "Toto" Riina was suspected of ordering more than 150 ...

ROME/PALERMO, ITALY – The death of Sicilian Mafia boss Salvatore “Toto” Riina on Friday does not mark the end of Cosa Nostra, but the crime group is unlikely to allow one man such power ever again, a ...

With the end of the El Chapo trial, Ed Vulliamy charts the lives of two dons a continent apart They both bore the same nickname: “Shorty”. Salvatore Riina, boss of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra from the late ...

One of the most ruthless and bloodthirsty bosses in the history of the Mafia has died aged 87. Salvatore 'Toto' Riina, sometimes nicknamed 'The Beast' or 'The Boss of the Bosses', led the notorious ...

Salvatore “Toto” Riina, once leader of the Sicilian mafia, has died in a prison hospital at the age of 87. In Italy, reaction to his death has been mixed. For me, having studied Italian mafias since ...