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Recent Examples of camorra
The investigations lead Nikki to secret deals between the U.S. Navy and the camorra, a syndicate of organized crime families in Naples.
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Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2024
In the struggling city of Naples, stereotyped by other Italians as superstitious and controlled by the camorra, Maradona was received like a homecoming god.
—Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2021
Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2024
In the struggling city of Naples, stereotyped by other Italians as superstitious and controlled by the camorra, Maradona was received like a homecoming god.
—Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2021
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Just earlier this year with the hurricane in North Carolina there were conspiracies about chemtrails taking place there.Tim Marchman, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2024
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The second spy, Ji, was convicted of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government, acting as an agent of a foreign government, and making a material false statement to the U.S. Army.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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Men were the representatives of their clans and nations in the Haudenosaunee council, which made decisions for the confederacy as a whole.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 21 Nov. 2024
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Adams wanted to align the young Republic with Great Britain, while Jefferson favored a confederacy with France.Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Aug. 2024
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Just last week, a gang leader ordered the slaughter of more than 200 people in one of Port-au-Prince’s poorest neighborhoods in an attack that targeted voodoo priests.Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
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Farther north, in Clinton County, local law enforcement officers were advised to release a violent Tren De Aragua Venezuelan prison gang member into the community, prompting a congressional investigation, The Center Square reported.Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Dec. 2024
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One of the more surprising foreign policy ideas the Trump team has proposed on the eve of its ascension to power is military intervention in Mexico to go after drug cartels and possibly stop migrants headed to the United States.Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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Guides paid by the Sinaloa cartel, leading people through one of numerous gaps in the wall.Longreads, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
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Hawai`i’s statehood itself results from a treacherous cabal of business interests–Dole among them–conspiring together on a scheme to wrest control of the land away from Native Hawaiians and give it the U.S.Chadd Scott, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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Adherents of QAnon claim the deep state works with a cabal of pedophile elites to secretly traffic children and harvest a chemical from their blood.Audrey Nguyen, NPR, 10 Dec. 2024
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The Jennifer Tilly assemblage is her, Sutton, and Kyle, and Sutton is talking about how Dorit has no idea what her sisterhood pact was all about.Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
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The character is one of the powerful Aes Sedai – a group of women with the ability to channel the One Power who are part of an elite sisterhood.Denise Petski, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
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The film centers on an ex-special ops operative who investigates a cybercrime syndicate after a young woman falls victim to a scam.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024
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The December 5 memo warned that a potential retaliatory shooting could occur in the coming days, with high-ranking leaders of Mexican cartels and criminal syndicates reportedly instructing their members to target Border Patrol agents.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Camorra.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camorra. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.
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