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Former Italian PM and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi dies at 86
Berlusconi, who served as prime minister of Italy three times between 1994 and 2011, had been admitted to hospital with leukaemia
Silvio Berlusconi, the controversial former prime minister of Italy, has died aged 86.
He was hospitalised in Milan on Friday just three weeks after being released from a previous treatment.
He had a history of heart ailments, including a malfunctioning valve that surgeons replaced in 2016, and was hospitalised for a lung infection in 2020 after contracting Covid-19.
Berlusconi was Italy’s longest serving prime minister since World War II and his career was plagued by ...
