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German and Italian police have arrested an alleged member of the Calabrian Mafia organisation 'Ndrangheta in Oberhausen. The 51-year-old Italian was apprehended in a pizzeria, said a spokesman for the Duisburg police. A fugitive with international arrest warrants against him, the man is now detained and awaiting trial. On Monday, public prosecutors will take up the case.

After years of mafia threats and what he sees as official indifference, the director of a contemporary art museum near Naples has had enough. In a letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he has requested asylum for his museum -- and says his entire staff is prepared to move to Berlin if she agrees.