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One British rap magazine has outlived all the US giants – even ‘The Source’. Ian Burrell asks its editor how ‘Hip-Hop Connection’ has survived 20 years, and what the future holds

With a new analytical technique, a fingerprint can now reveal much more than the identity of a person. It can now also identify what the person has been touching: drugs, explosives or poisons, for example.
Writing in Friday’s issue of the journal Science, R. Graham Cooks, a professor of chemistry at Purdue University, and his colleagues [...]

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The Chechen mafia, or Obshchina (Russian: Община, meaning “community”), is one of the largest and most important organized crime (OC) groups operating in the former Soviet Union next to established Russian mafia gangs, which consist of ex-KGB, spetznaz and criminals with wide access to arms caches, and other high profile criminal [...]

Izmaylovskaya gang (Russian: Изма́йловская группиро́вка) is one of the oldest criminal organizations in Moscow, Russia, believed to have been started in the mid-1980s by a criminal named Oleg Ivanov, who became the overall boss of the syndicate. Various sources indicate its membership to be around 200-500 mobsters.
The organization is split into [...]

18th Street Gang, also known as Eighteen St., is a Los Angeles-based, largely Hispanic street gang. It is estimated that there are between 10,000 to 20,000 members of the 18th Street gang in Los Angeles County alone. The latest figures from the NDIC put 18th Street membership at 30,000 nationwide, making [...]