Silvio Berlusconi

• Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s scandal-plagued former leader, dead at 86

  Berlusconi, Italy's longest-serving premier, was hospitalized on Friday for the second time in months for treatment of chronic leukemia.

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  Jun 12, 2023
  
• Italy heads for hung parliament after far-right parties gather record votes

  Italian voters delivered a hung parliament, flocking to anti-establishment parties in record numbers and casting the euro zone's third-largest economy into political gridlock, initial results showed.

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  Mar 4, 2018
  
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• Topless protester flashes Silvio Berlusconi at polling station

  A topless Femen activist jumped on the table and shouted: "You've passed your expiry date. Your time's up!"

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  Mar 4, 2018
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• Italians head to polls following neo-fascist, anti-migrant election campaign

  Italy's political scene is dominated by three main blocs - the centre-right coalition, centre-left coalition and the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement. The campaign itself was marked by the prime-time airing of neo-fascist rhetoric and anti-migrant violence.

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  Mar 4, 2018
• Here’s how Italy’s new electoral rules could push populist parties to victory

  The upcoming federal election in Italy might see populist parties rise to power in the region — even if they don't win enough votes to form a government on their own.

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  Mar 3, 2018
• Italy’s Berlusconi says he has nothing in common with Trump, except admiration for Melania

  Despite being a successful businessman and the former leader of a G7 nation, Silvio Berlusconi says he shares nothing in common with U.S. President Donald Trump - except for his admiration of Trump's wife, Melania.

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  Jun 23, 2017
• Italian appeals court acquits Silvio Berlusconi in sex-for-hire case

  An Italian appeals court on Friday acquitted former Premier Silvio Berlusconi in a sex-for-hire case, reversing a conviction that had a seven-year prison sentence.

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  Jul 18, 2014
• Berlusconi begins community service

  Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has arrived at a facility for Alzheimer's patients to begin his first four-hour community service as part of a tax fraud sentence.

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  May 9, 2014
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• Italy’s Berlusconi tried for political corruption

  Silvio Berlusconi's political corruption trial has opened in the southern city of Naples, presenting yet another legal challenge for the three-time former Italian premier.

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  Feb 11, 2014
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• Berlusconi said to pay off ‘bunga bunga’ witnesses

  An Italian court has accused ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi and his lawyers of tampering with evidence by paying off witnesses in a trial related to his notorious "bunga bunga" parties.

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  Nov 29, 2013