Greece cracks down on a troublesome neo-nazi political party – Italy’s government teeters on the brink – And India’s PM chastises his neighbor for harboring terrorists.

Greece has arrested 20 members of the reprehensible fascist Golden Dawn party in a major crackdown to drain the power of Europe’s most notorious and violent neo-nazi group.  Five lawmakers including the party’s leader are among those arrested.  Charges include include murder, attempted murder and blackmail.  A search is underway for another parliamentarian and ten more party members.  This follows the murder of a popular Left-Wing musician by a gang of fascist cowards led by a Golden Dawn member.

Former Italian Prime Minister (and convicted tax cheat and prostitute client) Silvio Berlusconi has pulled members of his right-wing political party out of government, threatening a collapse of the coalition.  This follows weeks of deteriorating relations between Berlusconi and Prime Minister Enrico Letta.

The former intelligence chief for Chile’s fascist dictatorship of the 1970s has committed suicide.  87-year-old Odlanier Mena was on weekend release from his six-year prison term at the Cordillera facility, which was slated to close.  Cordillera allowed prisoners have access to the Internet, cable TV, a tennis court, gardens and a barbecue area.  In 1973, Mena led the “Caravan of Death” which murdered more than a hundred opponents of the coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power.

Colombia’s President is rejecting a move to allow American Civil Rights leader the Reverend Jesse Jackson to help with negotiations with Leftist rebels.  The FARC rebel group had invited Jackson to mediate the release of former US Marine Kevin Scott Sutay, and Jackson accepted.  President Juan Manuel Santos says he wants only the Red Cross to be involved to avoid what he calls a “media spectacle”.

Police in China busted a massive child trafficking network, rescuing 92 abducted children and two women in the process. 301 suspected members are under arrest across 11 provinces.  The traffickers are believed to have targeted children in the southwest and then sold them in other regions.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, but before that he had choice words for his neighbor:  Pakistan must stop being “the epicenter for terrorism,” and Pakistan must recognize the disputed Kashmir region is “an integral part of India.”  Sharif, in his UN speech last week, acknowledged that the two neighbors wasted money and time on an arms race instead of helping their citizens.

The Islamist government of Tunisia has agreed to step down after talks with the opposition that begin next week.  Anti-government protests have grown since the murders of two Leftist opposition leaders.  It’s hoped the talks will result in a caretaker government until new elections are held.