KL police bust Indonesian gang

KL police bust Indonesian gang

MALAYSIA: Malaysian authorities have arrested four Indonesian
robbers who allegedly targeted homes of VIPs, news reports said
on Sunday.

The so-called Gang Selamat used machetes, axes and crowbars to
break into several victims' houses in Kuala Lumpur over the last
year, said the deputy chief of criminal investigations, Ramli
Din.

Their crime spree ended when police officers acting on a tip
arrested them in their central city apartment hideout last week,
Ramli told the Sunday Star newspaper.

Police declined to reveal the identity of the gang's victims
or how many houses they had robbed, saying investigations were
still underway.

It was the second Indonesian robbery gang nabbed this month in
Kuala Lumpur, the report added. --DPA

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Government crisis in Italy deepens
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Government crisis in Italy deepens

ITALY: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was expected to
formally hand in his resignation to President Carlo Azeglio
Ciampi on Monday and try to form a new Cabinet, according to
unconfirmed reports on Sunday.

The Christian-democrat UDC party had withdrawn its ministers
from government, sparked by discontent over the ruling House of
Freedoms coalition's stunning defeat in recent regional
elections.

UDC party chief Marco Follini said: "We need a new government
and a new electoral program," and at the same expressed anger at
Berlusconi's threat to hold new elections if the UDC's ministers
did not return to the Cabinet.

Follini had stepped down as deputy prime minister.

Without the UDC and a splinter group of the New Socialists,
who also withdrew from the coalition, the Berlusconi bloc no
longer has a majority in either house of parliament.

The Interior Ministry has already begun making preparations
should new elections be called, sources said. --DPA