Italian police smash Mafia clan
ROME, March 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Italian police on Tuesday arrested 84people believed to be members of a powerful Mafia clan running an extortion racket in a northern district of in Palermo, capital of Sicily, Italy's news agency ANSA reported.

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