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NOTE The following text SNIPPET is a quote: newyork.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nyfo082410.htm Two Additional Arrests Made of Members of Violent International Organized Crime Group Albanian Government Aide Arrested; Newly Unsealed Indictment Charges 17 Defendants with Murder, Kidnapping, and Other Racketeering Offenses PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JANICE K. FEDARCYK, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), and RAYMOND W. KELLY, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York, announced the arrests of FLORIAN VESHI and ALMIR RRAPO for their roles in a racketeering enterprise that engaged...

Belgrade - Mujo the alligator saw his home destroyed by German bombers flying over Belgrade 69 years ago. But he survived and is now believed to be the oldest animal of his kind in captivity. Mujo was brought to the Serbian capital from a zoo in Germany as a young adult in 1937, along with a mate, according to Belgrade zoo director Vuk Bojovic, 60. "I remember seeing him when I was a toddler,just as he is today, " he says. The alligator was at the zoo when World War II came to Yugoslavia, with the German Luftwaffe's carpet bombing...