Court clears Berlusconi of corruption
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi escaped a potentially devastating jail sentence when a Milan court cleared him of corruption charges after a four-year trial, a verdict which he hailed as "better late than never".
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A Chilean court drops corruption charges against relatives and associates of late military ruler Pinochet.
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Italy's highest court upholds a ruling that cleared ex-PM Giulio Andreotti of having colluded with the Mafia.
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A court cleared Premier Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges in his long-running trial yesterday, sparing Italy the embarrassment of having its leader convicted of bribing judges.
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Berlusconi, a billionaire media mogul, is accused of bribing Rome judges in the late 1980s and again in 1991 to win favorable rulings for his Fininvest business empire.
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ROME  - Italy's highest criminal court upheld the acquittal of former premier Giulio Andreotti on Friday on charges of aiding the Mafia when he was in power - the final judgment in a decade-long case that shocked the country.
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A panel of three judges began deliberating a verdict in Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's long-running corruption trial, with a decision not expected before Friday at the earliest, the court said.
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Milan judges acquitted Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of corruption after reducing the statute of limitations for the charge, ending a decade of legal battles that threatened his leadership.
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Italy's top court acquits ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges dating back to the 1980s.
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An Italian court dropped a key corruption charge against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday, invoking a statute of limitations that meant time had run out to convict him of allegations he bribed a judge.
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Italy is awaiting the verdict in the long-running corruption trial of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Three judges in Milan are deliberating and the verdict may be announced later on Friday.
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Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi underwent successful heart surgery Monday in the United States, his party said.Comment
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The Italian government on Wednesday sped  up parliamentary approval of a law that could overturn the  corruption convictions of a close friend of Prime Minister  Silvio Berlusconi, sparking fury among opposition politicians.
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Judges in the corruption trial of Silvio  Berlusconi withdrew on Thursday to decide their verdict and the  prime minister said he was confident he would not be convicted.
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ROME  - A close political ally of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of ties with the Sicilian Mafia on Saturday and sentenced to nine years in prison in a fresh embarrassment to Italy's right-wing government.
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Italy's highest criminal court on Friday upheld the acquittal of former Premier Giulio Andreotti on charges of aiding the Mafia when he was in power &#151; the final judgment in a decade-long case that shocked the nation.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at Palazzo Chigi in Rome in April 2006.Comment