By-election rout for Berlusconi
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The centre-right ruling coalition of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has suffered a crushing defeat in a round of by-elections. The centre-left opposition maintained its hold on four of the ...
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The strength of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour party was being put to the test in a by-election in a parliamentary constituency formerly held by the European Union's incoming trade commissioner.
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Silvio Berlusconi, Italy&#39;s prime minister, has discovered the high price of clashing with Tony Blair: he has been forced to seek hospital treatment for a leg injury sustained when
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The past 10 months have been rough for Silvio Berlusconi: He lost power in a contested election, fainted at a political rally, underwent heart surgery and was rebuked very publicly by his wife for flirting with other women.
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Early results for Italian local elections  in which 10 million people were eligible to vote put the  centre-right opposition ahead on Monday, but Romano Prodi&#39;s  left-leaning government appeared to have avoided a drubbing.
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Silvio Berlusconi, the Houdini of European politics, escaped jail last night on charges of bribing Roman judges. At the end of the Prime Minister&#39;s trial in Milan, judges cleared him
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Italy&#39;s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was last night cleared of the most serious corruption charge hanging over him when a court in Milan ruled that a key accusation - that of bribing a judge with almost $500,000 (Â£260,000) - was &quot;out of time&quot;.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won support from his allies for about $7.7 billion in income-tax cuts aimed at helping the economy and improving his chances of getting re- elected in 2006.
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A Milan court today acquitted Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges - a major victory in the billionaire business baronâs decade-long battle with legal woes he blamed on left-wing prosecutors.
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Silvio Berlusconi, Italy&#39;s prime minister, was on Friday cleared of corruption charges by a Milan court in a verdict that boosted his political fortunes as the country moves closer to national elections.
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Phil Wilson of the governing Labour Party was named the victor of a by-election in the northeastern English town of Sedgefield, former prime minister Tony Blair&#39;s old seat, early on Friday, albeit with a slashed majority.
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Silvio Berlusconi's mother died on Sunday,  aged 97, news agencies reported, depriving the Italian tycoon  of a doting matriarch and a valuable political asset as he  faces a possible chance for re-election to lead the country.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Friday he hoped incumbent President Bush would win the Nov.
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Italy's municipal elections give a boost to Romano Prodi's centre-left bloc after tight national polls.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Friday he hoped incumbent President Bush would win the Nov. 2 election against his Democratic rival John Kerry.
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MILAN/ROME  - Silvio Berlusconi's future was in doubt on Tuesday after a newspaper said he did not want to bid for a third term as Italy's prime minister but the opposition leader said he had no plan to quit politics.
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Premier Silvio Berlusconi, an important ally for President Bush in Iraq, was acquitted of corruption charges that have dogged his government from the start. The verdict was a boost to the conservative leader ahead of 2006 elections. Berlusconi, 68, has long insisted he was the victim of left-wing prosecutors.