Italy's ruling coalition weakened
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Italy's former justice minister, who resigned over a corruption probe, withdraws his party from the ruling coalition.
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Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was taken ill at a podium during an emotional speech to political supporters in northern Italy Sunday, and aides rushed to keep him from falling over.Comment
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After losing a key foreign policy vote in the upper house of parliament, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned .Comment
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi's power is at risk after parties threaten to quit the governing coalition.
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An ally of Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi dealt his government a potentially fatal blow on Monday by withdrawing support for his coalition, but the premier resisted calls to resign despite losing his Senate majority.
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Italy's president dissolved parliament on Wednesday and the caretaker government prepared to call a snap election, likely in mid-April, that could mark a return to power of media magnate Silvio Berlusconi.
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Italy ground to a halt as millions of workers observed a general strike in a show of force against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition government.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi fainted as he delivered a speech on Sunday and was diagnosed with a minor heart problem, fuelling speculation about his political future.
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Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi holds crisis talks as the departure of an ally threatens his governing coalition.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will face a vote of confidence in the lower house of parliament on Wednesday, the heads of parliamentary groups said after the centre-left government lost a key ally.
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An ally of Italian Prime Minister Romano  Prodi dealt his government a potentially fatal blow on Monday  by withdrawing support for his coalition, but the premier  resisted calls to resign despite losing his Senate majority.
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Rome, Dec. 1 (NNN) : Italy was on Tuesday virtually crippled as millions of workers staged a one-day walk-out against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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ROME -- Stung by a bruising foreign policy defeat, Italy's beleaguered Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned yesterday, his center-left government collapsing after just nine months in power.
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Italy's ex-justice minister Clemente Mastella on Thursday pulled his small party out of the ruling centre-left coalition, putting Prime Minister Romano Prodi's political future on the line.
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The centre-right coalition of Italy's PM Berlusconi suffers a crushing defeat in seven by-elections.
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ROME, Feb 22 (IPS) - The Italian government is in crisis after it failed   to win a vote Wednesday on its foreign policy programme.  Although the  ruling centre-left coalition held only a very  slight majority in the  Senate, the defeat of the motion came as  a major surprise to Prime  Minister Romano Prodi.
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