A petition has been presented to Italy’s highest court requesting a referendum to overturn the law that grants Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from criminal prosecution while in office.
Anti-corruption magistrate Antonio Di Pietro led the effort to collect 1 million signatures, twice the amount needed to force a referendum.
Three-time Prime Minister Berlusconi has been [...]

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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is back in trouble again. This time it is over beautiful women, who just happen to be women ministers in his government. In extracts from 280 hours of taped phone calls, Berlusconi puts pressure on the head of the government television station to give parts to attractive actors.
 
In the calls, [...]

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Rome, Italy (summary from news24.com and timesonline) — Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said, “public accusers should be regularly submitted to examinations of their mental health”.
Infrastructure Minister Antonio Di Pietro, a Berlusconi critic, said, “only a crazy man could say things like that”. Di Pietro then proceeded to say Berlusconi should pass a mental [...]

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