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1. News - World - ITALY

   Berlusconi U-turn gives Italian PM Letta victory in confidence vote

   Posted Oct 02nd 2013, 07:21pm by AP

   ... they would be supporting Letta. Meanwhile, a money laundering trial that involves 11 defendants - including Berlusconi's son Pier Silvio and two Hong Kong women, Paddy Chan Mei-yiu and Katherine ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1322922/letta-warns-italy-runs-fatal-risk-berlusconi-showdown
2. News - World - ITALY

   Italy braced for market backlash after Silvio Berlusconi pulls plug on government

   Posted Sep 30th 2013, 12:00am by Reuters

   ... had been rising for weeks following moves to expel Berlusconi from parliament after his conviction for tax fraud last month. The political tensions have worried investors, with Italy's ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1320825/italy-braced-market-backlash-after-silvio-berlusconi-pulls-plug
3. News - World - ITALY

   Italian PM Letta to call confidence vote after resignations

   Posted Sep 30th 2013, 09:38am by Reuters

   ... by Berlusconi's allies raised concerns that Italy's troubles may threaten political and financial stability in Europe. Commentators speculated gloomily about how the financial markets would react. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1321205/italian-political-crisis-threatens-split-berlusconi-camp
4. News - World - ITALY

   Berlusconi allies quit Italian cabinet

   Posted Sep 29th 2013, 12:00am by AP

   ... Associated Press in Rome Ultimatum by the prime minister unacceptable, party of disgraced media mogul says Berlusconi allies quit cabinet All ministers from former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right party resigned from the coalition government yesterday, said a spokesman for Deputy Prime Minister Angelino Alfano. Berlusconi had earlier told ministers from his People ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1320148/berlusconi-allies-quit-italian-cabinet
5. News - World - ITALY

   Italian president Napolitano hits out at Berlusconi and threat by lawmakers to resign

   Posted Sep 27th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... Agence France-Presse in Rome Party members say they will bring down government if vote ousts ex-premier Berlusconi lawmakers threaten to resign Italian President Giorgio Napolitano issued a severe rebuke yesterday to Silvio Berlusconi and ruled out taking any action to stop his conviction for tax fraud after allies threatened to walk out of parliament over his legal problems. Italy ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1318411/italian-president-napolitano-hits-out-berlusconi-and-threat-lawmakers
6. News - World - ITALY

   Italian Senate to consider Berlusconi expulsion

   Posted Sep 09th 2013, 12:07pm

   ... expelling Silvio Berlusconi following his conviction for tax fraud, a decision that could shatter the fragile ruling coalition and plunge Italy into fresh political crisis. Senior figures in Berlusconi’s centre-right People of Freedom (PDL) party have threatened to pull out of prime minister Enrico Letta’s government if Berlusconi is stripped of his seat in the Senate. The process ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1306860/italian-senate-consider-berlusconi-expulsion
7. News - World - ITALY

   Berlusconi court ruling 'like fall of Berlin Wall'

   Posted Aug 03rd 2013, 12:00am by AP

   ... Silvio Berlusconi Berlusconi is unlikely to have to serve any time in jail because of his age. And the supreme court ordered part of the original sentence - imposing a ban on holding political ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1293982/berlusconi-court-ruling-fall-berlin-wall
8. News - World

   Italy’s top court confirms Berlusconi prison sentence

   Posted Aug 02nd 2013, 02:47am by AFP

   ... in Rome, activists lowered their flags and stopped their chants of “Silvio, Silvio!” The road in front of the palace, where Berlusconi huddled with close family members, lawyers and political ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1293760/italys-top-court-confirms-berlusconi-prison-sentence
9. News - World - ITALY

   Berlusconi conviction leaves Italian government hanging

   Posted Aug 02nd 2013, 09:50am by Reuters in Rome

   ... Silvio Berlusconi has left the fate of the country’s fragile ruling coalition resting in the balance. Just three months after centre-left Prime Minister Enrico Letta took office at the head of an uneasy coalition with Berlusconi’s People of Freedom party (PDL), Italy, the euro zone’s third largest economy, is again mired in uncertainty. The 76-year-old billionaire reacted angrily ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1293775/berlusconi-conviction-leaves-italian-government-hanging
10. News - World - ITALY

    Berlusconi’s defence sums up ahead of landmark ruling

    Posted Jul 31st 2013, 11:55pm by AFP

    ... appeal. “The sentence is lacking any evidence that Berlusconi could have participated in the crime,” his lawyer, Niccolo Ghedini, told the court. Italian media quoted court sources saying ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1293499/berlusconis-defence-sums-ahead-landmark-ruling

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