VIDEO: Trafficking suspects held in Italy raids

Five people are being held for questioning after an al-Shabab massacre at a university in eastern Kenya that left more than 140 people dead, officials say.

Several people are arrested after $2m (£1.2m) worth of gold and silver is stolen from the Egyptian finance ministry's coinage department.

>A Tanzanian national is among suspects seized over the record $312 million (about Sh500 billion) heroin intercepted by an Australian navy ship last month off the Kenyan coast.

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Pakistanis among suspects held in huge Tanzania heroin haul
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The haul would have a street value of up to €10 million euros in Europe. PHOTO: AFP/FILE. Tanzanian anti-narcotics police have arrested eight Iranians and four Pakistanis during a drug bust in which 200 kilogrammes of heroin was recovered off the east ...
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The BBC looks at the extent of human trafficking across the globe.

Italian police say they have arrested 15 Muslim migrants after they allegedly threw 12 Christians overboard following a row on a boat heading to Italy across the Mediterranean.

The BBC's Tom Burridge reports from the Italian island of Lampedusa, where authorities are struggling to cope with a huge influx of new migrants.

The BBC's World Affairs editor John Simpson has received assurances from the authorities in Libya that they will help cooperate in locating the new suspects in the Lockerbie bombing.