ITALIAN FASCIST: Silvio Berlusconi’s conservatives suffered a major embarrassment this week as one of their candidates for April elections said he is an unrepentant and lifelong Fascist. “Fascism has given me joys and pains,” Giuseppe Ciarrapico was quoted as saying in an interview published Monday. “I’ve never renounced it.”
LIBYAN FREED: Libya has released Fathi al-Jahmi, a prominent dissident whose nearly 4-year imprisonment without trial was criticized by the United States, a Libyan government-backed group said Tuesday.
GEORGIA WARNINGS: The United States and Georgia advised Russia on Tuesday against supplying arms to separatists in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia. Russia’s envoy to NATO, meanwhile, warned against putting Georgia on track to join that alliance.
INDIA STRIKE: Some 15,000 airport workers across India went on strike Wednesday, a move that threatened to ground hundreds of domestic flights and leave tens of thousands of passengers stranded.
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