The woman alleged to have had sex for money with former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi when she was just 17 testified in court for the first time yesterday at a trial of three friends...
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- May 24, 2013
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Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi has been Italy’s prime minister three times, making him the country’s longest-serving post-war premier. His leadership was undermined by sex scandals, and by the growing Euro zone sovereign debt crisis, and Berlusconi resigned as prime minister in November 2011, but mounted a comeback in late 2012.
16 May 2013
Italian centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi has been questioned by Rome prosecutors for three hours over allegations the former prime minister paid €750,000 (HK$7.5 million) to buy the silence...
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9 May 2013
An Italian court on Wednesday upheld a tax fraud conviction for former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, confirming his sentence of one year in prison and a five-year ban from public office.
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28 Apr 2013
Italy's prime minister finally unveiled a new government yesterday, breaking a two-month stalemate that shook market confidence in the recession-hit country and tested the patience of European...
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25 Apr 2013
Guess who's back? The real winner as Italy's long political crisis comes to an end is none other than Silvio Berlusconi, a scandal-tainted billionaire tycoon and a global figure of fun. The former...
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15 Apr 2013
Not only would no one support a ban of mainland travellers, any disease can be so easily spread nowadays due to globalisation
Wong Yuk-shan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology...
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If it was publicity Ford Motors was seeking, it got it in trunk loads. For the launch of its Figo model, the Indian unit of the American carmaker must have wanted special attention paid to the...
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insisted yesterday the only way out of Italy's political deadlock was for his centre-left rivals to accept a coalition deal that would give him a...
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Italy's European partners had hoped for a new government in Rome with the electoral legitimacy to complete the economic reform and austerity measures launched by outgoing Italian prime minister...
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Italy's crucial elections appeared to be heading towards political gridlock, initial results showed, with the centre-left forces of Pier Luigi Bersani closing in on victory in the lower house of...
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European capitals will be watching closely since, whatever the result, there is likely to be a change from outgoing technocratic premier Mario Monti’s agenda of austerity and economic reforms.
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An exhausted British-Australian expedition recreating Ernest Shackleton's 1916 crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat made landfall yesterday after a perilous 12-day journey.
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